US Now Believes Musharraf May Fall, Planning For Aftermath

New York Times:

Almost two weeks into Pakistan's political crisis, Bush administration officials are losing faith that the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, can survive in office and have begun discussing what might come next, according to senior administration officials.

In meetings on Wednesday, officials at the White House, State Department and the Pentagon huddled to decide what message Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte would deliver to General Musharraf -- and perhaps more important, to Pakistan's generals -- when he arrives in Islamabad on Friday.

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Comments

[fourex]

07:38 PM on 11/15/2007

Perhaps Republican Lindsey Graham will make Musharraf the new Viceroy of Iraq.
Bush Democracy is never tidy. There are always puppets and generals that come first.

[TovSquirrel]

07:34 PM on 11/15/2007

welcome to the front line in the GWOT.

pakistan! who'da thought it?

[1man1voicenovote]

05:55 PM on 11/15/2007

It's almost China's turn!

And they have the cards.

[MilwaukeeDan]

05:12 PM on 11/15/2007

Your average taxpaying Americans have to ask themseves, is all this worth it? Supporting dictators, hundreds of military bases around the world, NATO expantion, playing worlds policeman, endless war, when does it end and who pays for all this shit? The vast majority of the government is for the status quo. Of the presidential candidates, there is no one other than maybe Kucinich that thinks outside the box or cares about the American people. I hate to agree with conservative Pat Buchanan, but if you read some of his latest columns, he has it right, we are witnessing the end of an empire. The collapse won't happen overnight, it's gradual, but it has to end, and it won't be pretty.

[Paul]

03:45 PM on 11/15/2007

Fortunately, the people of Pakistan can look to Iraq as a model of democracy and freedom operating effectively in a Muslim society.

[bluesky49876]

03:16 PM on 11/15/2007

Folks, overall there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans...they are joined at hips with corporate super glue.

[insanityfollows]

02:17 PM on 11/15/2007

Well, time to find another former "ally" hiding in a spider hole. I just hope he has all of his nukes (and he really has them) down in the hole with him, since his unsecured western border now has Al Queda tucked into place. I'm afraid to ask the question, how much deeper in trouble can George Bush get us? This is the kind of shit that happens when everything gets dummied down, and no one reads anything or studies history, or considers any opinions because their minds are already made up.

[lefilmnoir]

02:09 PM on 11/15/2007

If Bhutto "falls" from America's favor, she'll find herself conveniently removed from power as well.

All in the name of Democracy, of course.

[jpshotwheels]

01:43 PM on 11/15/2007

Musharaff won't make it, the Pakistani people are tired of the Dictator, let this be a lesson to Bush, of what will happen if he tries the same thing here. The American people won't stand for it, and enough of you is enough. We are tired and we want our Country back.

Bhutto can come in, she is for Democracy, not Dictatorship. She will be the only salvation for Pakistan.

Another backfire for Bush, Hmmmm, it makes me so sad. I am loving every minute of his ship sinking, and he gets what he deserves by trying to sink our Country.

[TotobiAyokoh23]

01:41 PM on 11/15/2007

Musharraf should have known, as rightly pointed out by John Foster Dulles, that America does not have permanent friends, it has transient interests, and that, previous allies could easily be debunked.

[speakingtruth2power]

01:35 PM on 11/15/2007

Planning for the aftermath? Isn't that what the CIA has done in bringing Bhuto back?

[williamg]

01:20 PM on 11/15/2007

Plan b is to mind our friggin business.

[GarsLuber]

01:12 PM on 11/15/2007

What's Plan B, bush boy?

(crickets)

[peterg76]

01:11 PM on 11/15/2007

Dictatorship versus democracy. Until now, the US had been betting on dictatorship; supporting democracy is a desperate last resort.

And people wonder why the entire rest of the planet calls the US hypocrits.

[ornery]

01:10 PM on 11/15/2007

The general next time could be even worse.

He might not even speak better English than Bush.