November 18, 2007 (LPAC)--U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte flew to Pakistan yesterday, to pressure Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to revoke the state of emergency in effect since Nov. 3, and resign as head of the Army. In what the Washington Post described as a "tense two hour meeting," Negroponte warned Musharraf that if he doesn't comply, U.S. military aid could be cut.
Negroponte also spoke three times by phone with opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, and met with Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani, the deputy army commander--which the Post suggested was a sign that the U.S. is looking for a leader to replace Musharaf.
"You're trying to turn Pakistan into a failed state." Lyndon LaRouche warned yesterday. "The British are trying to do it, and dumb Americans are going along with the enterprise."
"There's no ability to clean up the Pakistani situation by internal resources there," LaRouche elaborated. "Because Pakistan depended on the income from the production of cotton goods in Bangladesh, the secession of Bangladesh meant that that game was over. The country is essentially a crippled country. It was made so by a combination of British and other kinds of things.
"So what you have to do, is you have to take it easy on this kind of stuff, because you're just going to create another mess. Do you want another failed state on your hands? You talk about stopping terrorism, and yet you're creating failed states. What in the hell do you think you're doing?
"Dick Cheney should just be thrown out, and we'd have one less problem." LaRouche proposed, "Instead of throwing out Musharaf, why don't we throw out Cheney? Before we throw out Musharaf, let's throw out Cheney first. Let's show them how it's done! And if it bothers Nancy Pelosi, she can take a gentle retirement to ease her discomfort."
Cheney et al's insane intention vis a vis Pakistan was reflected in a Washington Post op-ed on Nov. 18, by Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute and Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, which carried the kicker: "The U.S. might have to send troops to secure nuclear weapons." Kagan and O'Hanlon argue that the U.S. needs to think about how to militarily secure Pakistan's nuclear arsenal with the cooperation of pro-Western forces inside the Pakistani military. Kagan, it will be remembered, is the author of the Bush/Cheney surge plan for Iraq, which was designed to sabotage the Baker-Hamilton diplomatic proposals. O'Hanlon has recently co-authored a scheme to partition Iraq into three pieces.
