A Blow for Democracy
Syndicated from Upping the Anti on Wed, 2008-08-20
A Blow for Democracy
by Rahul Mahajan, Empire Notes, August 18, 2008.
A great blow has been struck for democracy.
No, it wasn’t John McCain posturing about the nonexistent U.S. defense of Georgia and Mikhail Saakashvili. Nor was this blow struck by the keyboard commandoes who infest the media, congratulating themselves on their courage in standing up to the Russian bear.
It happened halfway around the world and, as is so often the case, the United States and its chattering classes were on the wrong side of history.
The military dictator Pervez Musharraf, facing certain impeachment, resigned the last of his usurped offices, President of Pakistan.
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