Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Arnaud de Borchgrave, a CSIS senior advisor, published a commentary in the Washington Times, "Demonocracy, not democracy?"
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Arnaud de Borchgrave, a CSIS senior advisor, published a commentary in the Washington Times, "Demonocracy, not democracy?"
Washington's Pakistan kibitzers will soon rue the day they squeezed President Pervez Musharraf to restore democracy. "Demonocracy" is what has now emerged, or an unholy alliance of long-time America-haters, including the MMA coalition of six politico-religious extremist parties that lost the Feb. 18 elections, plus a gaggle of former generals and admirals against Mr. Musharraf, and friends and admirers of Dr. A.Q. Khan, the man who ran a nuclear "Wal-Mart" for the benefit of America's enemies (North Korea and Iran).
More ominous still is the acquiescence of Pakistan's two principal "moderate" leaders. Read the article
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