Saturday, September 27, 2008

The once again failing state

Pakistan’s Faith in Its New Leader Is Shaken - NYTimes.com

The Pakistanis can always get their pals like Kuldip Nayyar, Rajdeep Sardesai and Burkha Dutt to ask for a bail-out package for "our neighbors" . Manmohan Singh will soon say that it is not Indian Muslim - but Pakistani Muslims who have first right to India's resources. And James Astill can go back to "sit around and wonder" what is going on.

Interesting that even Saudi Arabia has refused concessions on oil - so much for solidarity amongst the 'brotherhood of Islam'; they can always go to China though - the Hans have plenty of cash to spare.

the "international condom" is back - only this time it's wrapped around another - well - you know what!

2 comments:

tat_tvam_asi said...

The term 'failed state' has become synonymous with Pak. We even heard it during the first presidential debate.

san said...

There is of course a way of stopping the attacks, and this is by putting an Ataturk solution on Pakistan, and explicitly suppressing the practice of Islam there. Note that the Europeans were very clever in imposing this solution on Turkey through Kemal Ataturk. This is why the Europeans sit comfortably protected today, preaching tolerance to the rest of the world, having erected their safety buffers much in the past.

I'd rather see the situation reversed -- Pakistan broken up with its fragments put under Ataturkist repression of Islam, while the Caliphate could be revived in Turkey itself, to keep the meddling Europeans on the ropes.