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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Friday, July 20, 2007

Serving 8 masters

In the earlier post on Pakistan, Anonymous pointed to this Asia Times article on the Chinese influence on Musharraf's government. The short analysis: China is getting their terrorists taken care of, and the US, despite a $1 billion, is getting next to nothing.

4 Comments:

  • In 2001, the US held all the cards: either cooperate, or well invade and do it ourselves.

    Now Pakistan holds all the cards: pay up or else... what're gonna do George? Invade and do it yourself? Haa, haa, haa!

    By Blogger -epm, at 6:45 PM  

  • Degree of difficulty:

    Iraq: 27 million people, military broken by war and 11 years of sanctions.

    Iran: 70 million people, military lessened by US and limited other countries sanctions.

    Pakistan: 170 million people, military equipped with current US, Chinese, and Russian weapons.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 9:07 PM  

  • Wow! I had no idea Pakistan what THAT populated.

    By Blogger -epm, at 10:43 PM  

  • Yeah, It's not some little podunk country like Lebanon or Israel Palestine. It's small relative to its giant neighbors India and China, but it's a big nation.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 6:34 AM  

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