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Pakistan, Prince of Denmark The uncritical support of Musharraf is a slowly unfolding tragedy. It shows the US has not learned the lessons from the Shah in Iran, writes Ali Eteraz.

Tyranny on the march George Bush's policies in Pakistan have undermined democracy by providing an example of contempt for the rule of law and executive usurpation, writes Sidney Blumenthal.

Also read Amit Varma's post Geography, Not Democracy, in response to this report that "the Bush administration will probably keep billions of dollars flowing to Pakistan’s military, despite the detention of human rights advocates and leaders of the political opposition by Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the country’s president." This is a good follow-up to an article by Amit Varma earlier this year about Musharraf's incentives, which discusses why it is "not in his (Musharraf's) interest to actually finish off the Taliban and al-Qaeda, for why would the Americans then keep pumping in money, and support him and his military?"