Is freedom on the march? We here at Craigorian Chant (plus Fareed Zakaria)have been rather hard on the Iraq Freedom March:
Unless there is a major change in course, Iraq is on track to become another corrupt, oil-rich quasi-democracy, like Russia and Nigeria.
What about the rest of the world? Well, U.S. Ally Egypt just arrested a pro-democracy dissident. Read Tapped for the thunderous non-response from the Bush administration.
Also, the King of Nepal is making a grab for power, dismissing his Prime Minister and ruling directly. A freaking King? Kings are a particularly worthless form of dictator. They don't even have the ruthless competence of your average despot, after all most dictators have to sieze power. All a King has to do is pick the right family to be born into. I say we take him out. What's that you say? Too hard? No exit strategy? You want to the poor people of Nepal to be ruled by a King? I guess you want to bring back King George III in Amerca, don't you? Anti-American scum!
Article comments
1 - Big Time Patriot
You didn't even get around to mentioning our partner in the war against terror, Pervez Musharraf.
And how are we treating the country that is strongly suspected of selling nuclear materials and technologies to many nations, including some in the ''axis of evil''?
''A senior U.S. official said Feb. 3 that Washington is still considering Pakistan's controversial request to buy F-16 fighter aircraft, as the two countries held in-depth security talks..."
Nothing would send a better message about democracy and nuclear containment than providing some excellent delivery vehicles to an anti-democracy nuclear power at odds with its strongly democratic neighbor (India)?
How does Pakistan fit into Bush foreign policy?
2 - swingingpuss
Its either the King or the Maoist.This is a clear case of the Devil and the Deep blue Sea.
3 - Aaman
I'm going to assume this was intended as satire