Posted by
rockright25 on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:22:45 AM
As a follow up to the previous post about Musharraf stepping down we need to be careful here. The problem is 2 fold:
1) Will he really step down?
2) What happens next?
Do we trust him to step down? What if the attacks by the Taliban and Al-Quada do not stop? Will we see the dead line just simply pushed back? Or is this for real and he is bowing from US pressure and pressure in side his country? Hopefully if we are to see Pakistan become stable again he will step down and allow democracy to flourish.
The bigger question is what happens next? Who will replace him? Will it be his primary opponent? Or someone else? And what happens if the violence does not go down despite this latest move???
It is clear that the majority of people working to see Musharraf step down as head of the Army are not radical islamic types. But radical islam is gaining a strong foot hold inside the country. Can a democratic government do better then Musharraf and the army? OR will it become caught up in the popularity drive and trend away from democracy and into radical islam. Pakistan has nukes and this could be a dangerous situation if instead of overthrowing the Pakistani government they simply got themselves elected to power. It would be much harder to stop them given the fact of the nuclear missiles in the equation.
So who ever takes over after Musharraf and the US must hold him accountable to ensure he leaves office the US must watch and support if the new government is infact totally committed to democracy.