Meddling

Propping up dictators is probably a bad idea, as is actively undermining them. "US interests" are rarely actually that, and one only needs to look at the geniuses who are running our foreign policy (Rice, Cheney, Bush) to understand that one should not enable them to do anything.


...Glennzilla:

Contrary to the prevailing views of our political and media elite -- virtually all of whom seem eager to debate how we should best resolve Pakistan's problems: demand elections? get rid of Musharraf? find a replacement for Bhutto? -- that country isn't our protectorate or our colony and I doubt that the average American voter wants candidates to prove that they can best manage Pakistan's internal political mess. We have substantial messes of our own to manage and I suspect voters are more interested in how candidates will manage those.