Snapped Shot

Quite a lot has gone on over the weekend in Pakistan since their latest bout of unrest. I'm sure most of you have already caught up on it, as a number of blogs have been providing very excellent coverage of these events, but in case you haven't heard, Pervez Musharraf has suspended his country's constitution, and is now ruling Pakistan as a true dictator.

Normally, I would be against these kinds of tactics, but I think President Musharraf deserves some wide leeway here. First and foremost, his government is armed with thermonuclear weaponry. For that fact alone, it's absolutely critical that it remain under the control of a stable group. In a series of actions which have threatened the stability of the Pakistani state, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has continued to prove a threat to the rest of the world, by repeatedly siding with anti-Western Islamist extremists, freeing known terrorists, and otherwise behaving in a manner similar to that of the insane anti-War left here in the United States.

It goes without saying that, were the Pakistani government to pass into the hands of the Islamists who are currently trying to take it over (remember Osama's big speech declaring war on Musharraf?), the consequences that the rest of the world would face—India, most particularly—would be horrific, indeed.