I see that the newly constituted Pakistan Supreme Court has decided, big surprise, that the legal challenges to General Musharraf’s continued rule must fail. Here is the Washington Post article. Musharraf, whose father had less foresight than George W. Bush’s, had to fire and arrest most members of the Pakistan Supreme Court after “suspending” Pakistan’s constitution because he knew they would rule that the suspension was illegal and because he was afraid they would hold that he could not stay in office under Pakistan law after his current presidential term is up.
Which is why our post about killing all the lawyers sums up Musharraf’s – and all other tyrants’ – view of lawyers.
Meanwhile, our fear-bound foreign policy keeps making up excuses for Musharraf’s dictatorship. And that bastion of human rights, Secretary Negroponte, runs off to Islamabad to pretend that we care.[1]
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[1] Negroponte praised Musharraf as a crucial U.S. ally in the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban but also urged him to lift the emergency.
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