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Great essay. Some things come to mind:
This line from the 02 editorial:
"New presidential elections should be held this year, perhaps at the same time the new Congress is chosen. Some time is needed for plausible national leaders to emerge and parties to reorganize."
I am always surprised at how easily the Times switches back to a very old school colonialist demeanor when discussing the US role in the third world. Advising the post-coup dictatorship about how best to simulate a democracy, while applauding the overthrow of a democratically elected 'dictator'. I'm afraid the word Orwellian no longer does this sort of dynamic justice.
On another note, I am not usually one to get scared about events in other countries, but the apparent inability of Pakistan to free itself of Islamic cell influence is really starting to scare the hell out of me. To paraphrase a really silly movie I saw this summer, "Pandora comes out of the box, she doesn't go back in." We've created a monster-state in Pakistan, and nobody seems to be able to reverse it.
I wrote something along these same lines last year, a comparison of how mainstream media deal with Venezuela, which is considered to be a very important foreign policy dilemma, even though its obviously not; and Pakistan, a very frightening and seemingly intractable foreign policy dilemma, that's treated like no big whup.
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