Aug 19 2008
Musharraf’s Resignation Should Inspire a Rethinking of US Foreign Policy
The forthcoming resignation of Pervez Musharraf, president/military dictator of Pakistan, should give pause to purveyors of American foreign policy. Here we have the downfall of yet another unsavory character – joining the ranks of Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire, Shah Mohammed in Iran, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, and the precursors of Afghanistan’s Taliban. All of these entities had at some time been massively supported by American funds, weapons, advisors, and even troops. It seems that recent American foreign policy has not seen a departure from endorsing dictatorial regimes that oppress their own people. Policymakers, analysts, and ordinary people should rethink whether using taxpayer money to sustain regimes that violate individual rights is such a good idea after all. Perhaps without American aid, those regimes would have crumbled earlier.
Sincerely,
Gennady Stolyarov II
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