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Originally Posted by Chief
Not good. Elsewhere in Pakistan, a few hours earlier, four supporters of former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif died when members of another political party opened fire on them at a rally near the Islamabad airport Friday, local police said. Honestly, places like Pakistan are a long way off being able to have an effective democracy in place. Their whole nation is built on tribalism, religious fundamentalism and using violence to take/gain/maintain power.
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this issue is also a great example of how naive people are in the west.
there is always this basic and wrong assumption is that everyone wants peace and democracy and there's just 3-4 assholes fucking it up for the whole country. the reality is that people want to fight, want power and want to rule. the reality is they dont care all that much about reconcilliation as much as they do about making sure that their tribe/clan/ethnic group/religious sect is in the drivers seat for once.
everyone loves to think Musharef (sp?) is a thug. why wouldn't he be? what is the alternative? pakistan has always been fucked up and just like we saw in Iraq people care less about "democracy" and change through democracy than they do about just seizing power and having their moment in the sun.
the best person to replace saddam hussein, would have been another saddam hussein. who is the best person to replace musharef? some weepy chick accused of pilferring billions of dollars from her own country with a "i have a dream speech" about love and peace in the middle of one of the most turbulent and unstable countries in the middle east? ... not too likely.