Musharraf announces resignation.
Dude's been the cork in a gallon jug full of pure crazy for a long time. Without Musharraf to keep 'em down, the jihadis are liable to run wild in Islamabad. The next regime in Pakistan will make Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks like a harmless schoolboy.
Afghanistan on steroids, with nukes.
UPDATE: Ed Morrissey is more optimistic than me, which isn't hard, since I expect we're no more than 180 days from an al-Qaeda-backed jihadist coup in Islamabad.
The West Bank on PCP, with nukes.
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In a region awash in authoritarian regimes, we see a leader who came to power in a coup stepping down without triggering another one.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this progress will spread to Tehran.