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The Impotent Hegemon

by Pat Buchanan

"Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind."

Emerson's couplet comes to mind as the New Year opens with Pakistan, the second largest Muslim country on Earth, in social and political chaos, trending toward a failed state with nuclear weapons.

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, whom the White House pressed to return home from exile to form an anti-Islamist alliance with President Pervez Musharraf, is dead, assassinated on the second try in two months.

Her 19-y ...

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Posted by: Daniel Johnson
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Tue Jan 1, 2008 6:59 AM

Pat, you are right. Nations where emotions rule cannot organize themselves into agreements based on compromise and goodwill . It is better that those nations be left to their own devices and schemes. Better that we spent our money on technology designed to protect us no matter the nature of any would be attack.

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