THE PAKISTAN QUESTION. As things get more and more shaky in Pakistan, Kevin Drum rightly anticipates that the country is going to be rising to the top of our domestic political discussions soon enough. He also expresses the ambivalence about what our policy towards Pervez Musharraf and his government should be that I think most American observers share. Certainly I do. I think Blake Hounshell has put forward the best case yet for more-or-less welcoming Musharraf's fall (or at least refraining from propping him up any longer), but it's a very, very tough issue.
UPDATE: Mike Crowley is also in the "not as scared as he used to be" camp regarding a post-Musharraf Pakistan.
--Sam Rosenfeld
