The State Department Response — Calling for Immediate Free Elections in Pakistan — is IDIOTIC!

Break down Pakistan's instability into just some of its component parts — Islamist militancy, tribal unrest, deep-seated ethnic separatism, feudal oppression, sectarian hatred, an incompetent and corrupt ruling elite, an ill-educated population, a paranoid and conspiratorial culture — and it's far from clear that dictatorship is the disease or elections the cure.

... I'll SAY IT AGAIN, LOUDER! - PAKISTAN HAS NEVER BEEN A DEMOCRACY, CONDOLEEZA! : Tiger

In the Punjab, far from the frontier there was a major suicide bomb attack against the Pakistani Air Force, killing eight officers and cadets (probably a reprisal for air strikes in Waziristan in October). There was intense fighting in the Swat valley, a popular vacation area on the edge of the tribal area, with Pakistani helicopter gunships striking militants of the TNSM, a.k.a. the Pakistani Taliban. Another suicide bomber exploded himself and seven other people in a high security area of Rawalpindi near General Musharaf's official residence (on the anniversary of a Pakistani missile attack on an extremist TNSM madrassa last year). Whatever Musharraf's actual motives, I can think of lots of countries where this level of violence might prompt a state of emergency....

... is there ANYONE at the STATE DEPARTMENT CAPABLE of THINKING !?!

More Madness! U.S. May Withhold Billions from Pakistan

... this is called: SCREWING YOUR 'ALLY' !!!