Dangerous or just Dumb?
My native Pakistan has been called "the world's most dangerous place" by the Economist, Newsweek and other major publications. Yet having been there this summer, I suspect it's not as dangerous as it is dysfunctional.
Amidst food riots, mass poverty and illiteracy, and growing tensions between the moderate majority and a fundamentalist minority, Pakistan's elected leaders have decided that one action is most essential: impeaching Pervez Musharraf.
Musharraf is far from perfect and very far from popular. But I do think they have a few other things to worry about. In many ways, it is politics in its classic sense, and we as Americans shouldn't feel too far removed from it, as we pay $400 billion every year in interest alone on our swelling debts, while politicians distract us with bread, circus and wars of catharsis. 
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