U.S. Power Vacuum Could Upend Nuclear-Armed Pakistan

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Investors Business Daily:

Radical Threat: Anti-government demonstrators could soon upend the one Islamic country that has nuclear weapons. Ironically, candidate Barack Obama feigned hawkishness in 2008 by threatening to intervene in Pakistan.

 

Violent protests in Islamabad involving tens of thousands are threatening Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's hold on power. With a comfortable parliamentary majority, Sharif responded by convening both chambers to buttress his support and strengthen opposition to what his government considers an anti-democratic, terrorist rebellion.

 

Last week, all of Pakistan's political factions actually joined together and formally urged Sharif to resist the demonstrators' demands to resign.

 

But representative government just doesn't impress populations in the Islamic Mideast the way it impresses us in the West. That is why President Obama's 2009 appearance in Cairo — in which he said "I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world" — ended up unleashing not democratic forces but their opposite.

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Oh goody. The hits just keeping coming. Nuclear weapons on the black market or worse yet in Libyan commercial airliners....