Reacting to the assassination in Pakistan, our presidential candidates have been falling all over each other in an effort to show how well they knew Benazir Bhutto, and how intimately they have been communicating with President Musharaff.
Pakistan is going through hellish instability, and these people are not only distracting the president with their phone calls, but also telling him what he must do in order to make us happy.
Our current president, for months, has also been pushing Musharaff -- insisting that he take off his army uniform, reinstate the supreme court justices, hold immediate elections.
Barack Obama says that “our primary interest is making sure that whatever government emerges is viewed as legitimate.”
Sorry, Senator. Sorry, President Bush. Not even close! Our primary interest is to prevent instability in a country which has a stockpile of atom bombs. Nothing else counts.
I say leave Musharaff alone. Don’t make his difficult job virtually impossible. Help him create the stability needed to keep those atom bombs out of the hands of the wrong people.
That’s the real primary interest of our country today.
This is Robert Kieve, and that’s a personal opinion.
