November 21, 2007
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
George W. Bush doesn't believe that when a president fires the supreme court to prevent it from deciding a case about whether the President can be re-elected in violation of the constitution, and then throws thousands of people in jail when they protest, the president has "crossed any lines."
"When you have no effective state, no rule of law, it's only people with guns who can remove a leader."
Footnote Notice that the arguments for "sticking with Musharraf" are virtually identical to the arguments for "sticking with the Shah." Are we having fun yet? The problem with "realism" in foreign policy is that it makes such unrealistic assumptions about the predictability of outcomes.
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