Pakistan 'a failed state'? (Merged)

system · May 25, 2006, 2:24am

Re: Pakistan ‘a failed state’? (Merged)

LastOfTheDinosaurs:

There is very very very very little hope Pakistan will make a smooth transition from a radical Islamist, unitary, and authoritarian/oligarchic (ruled by a military oligarchy) state to a liberal, genuinely federal, and democratic state. As for the economic boom, that is only temporary due to heavy foreign aid after 9/11. Almost all institutions have decayed…legislative, judiciary, and executive are useless adjuncts and rubber stamps to the powerful miltary…

USSR was far more strong, a super power and a permanent member of security council with that 4 million Red Army and stock piles of those lethal arms…but all that give it only an outer facade of strength…

Zakk man, you are wrong…This is not Cold War era…the protective umbrella Cold War security and strategic configuration of the world offered is gone with the end of Cold War in 1990…

Wow, your just gushing optamisim…