Well it was definitely a good idea in theory. But WOW has it ever backfired for President Musharraf. Here is the scenario, there are wacko fundamentalist Islamic “people” who want you dead, and the Western educated Judicial system isn’t crazy about having a President that has direct control of the army; What do you do?
You find someone that people will hate even more than you, and will deflect some of the negative attention away from you. Musharraf’s choice, a former Prime Minister in exile for corruption, incompetence, who happens to be a woman married to a suspected terrorist. What could possibly go wrong?
Turns out everything. While it is thought to be true that the Islamic radicals hate her, even maybe tried to kill her, tune in to the new series CSI Pakistan to find out. That part of the plan kinda maybe worked, but the part where the Judicial system would aim their venom at the return of an incompetent corruption laden person was not.
Instead they started to challenge the “Constitutionality” of Musharraf keeping his control over the government and the military. Leave it to lawyers to bring about the destruction of a country just because of a technicality in their constitution. Men like former Attorney General Antonio Gonzales never let technicalities of law, or justice get in the way of doing his job. Now look how much safer and well protected we are because of it? Who needs civil rights anyway, more people eligible to vote, who instead watch tv and bitch about how nothing ever gets done.
So now President Musharraf has declared marshal law because of all the riots, I mean “protesting” that is going on. So what does his supposed savior/partner/shield from assassination do? She tells her followers to “protest” that there is no need for the emergency marshal law. And by “protest” I mean attack the police, and toss Molotov Cocktails around the block just for good measure.
Now I may be an American, but I thought that kind of thing was reserved for those pointless soccer games the rest of the world plays. I am also confused on how telling your followers to riot will somehow show that the need for marshal law is somehow unnecessary. I guess it flows from the same logic that burning stuff to the ground every time someone says Islam is a violent religion, and there they go again.
It is also funny to me that the person Musharraf brought in to calm things down Bhutto, is doing the exact opposite of what he wanted. I mean, I understand the call of the independent woman, but this is ridiculous. Then I think of all the relationships I have had with the fairer sex, and realize that this is just an extreme case of a woman kinda pissed at the guy who kicked her out.
“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” the saying goes, I just hope this isn’t going to be a true nuclear winter. So good luck Musharraf, and thanks for providing us with another example for guys to drink a beer with their buddies, shake their heads and say, “Chicks man.”
