Musharraff on the Way Out?

Probably "within the next few months", according to Spencer Ackerman and his sources.

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If so Spence for Hire has a real scoopy doop.

I sometimes wonder as Haplogroup G type whether I can get some kind of birth right citizenship in that part of the world if my people left like 10,000 years ago.

Posted by Linus | June 11, 2007 10:17 PM

And here I was the whole time time thinking the term was Iraq-specific. I was wrong.

Posted by sangfroid826 | June 11, 2007 10:26 PM

Oops! Read too fast. "Few". I've heard the clause "within the next ___ months blah-blah important blah development ..." that my eyes tend to glaze over. Call me when ul-Haq stages the coup. Maybe we can get some great flag-waving-on-the-tank footage.

Posted by sangfroid826 | June 11, 2007 10:33 PM

Hopefully, one way or another, Musharraff's fate will be more definite than Tony Soprano's.

Posted by Duncan Kinder | June 11, 2007 10:40 PM

Let's arrange a job swap, Musharraff for Gonzales. Two birds, one stone.

Posted by FS | June 11, 2007 11:51 PM

Max Boot had an op/ed about this in Monday's WSJ. Said it was time for Bush to take Reagan's lead (WRT Marcos & Pinochet) and let Pervez know on the QT that he shouldn't expect continued American billions if he impedes the constitutional election process in Pakistan.

Posted by Fred | June 12, 2007 12:44 AM

Ivan Eland, in a recent interview with Scott Horton, gave a good overview of the situation in Pakistan, criticism of the role of the US in fostering it, and suggestions for policy change. MP3 here:

http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_05_30_eland.mp3

Posted by heatkernel | June 12, 2007 7:03 AM

No matter how his successor is chosen, no matter who he is, he will never be the friend of the US that Musharraff has been.

That being said, you can expect more instability in the middle east and particularly in Pakistan. I can see a time when the US will invade Pakistan to keep the nukes out of the hands of extremists if unfriendly actors take control, just as we will do with Iran.

The liberals here seem to get deeply involved with so much detail of the "chess game" that they don't see the forest. The forest is that the Muslim world is rising up against the West. This is the start of a generational religious war and will last for decades.

Posted by Fred Jones | June 12, 2007 8:40 AM