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Pakistani police attack, arrest lawyers

All thanks to not having the right to keep and bear arms.

Lawyers getting clubbed and arrested. Whoever said there's no good news in the paper anymore?

Mustachioed Middle-Eastern men take to the streets and pump their fists in the air? Oh, it must be a Tuesday. Or a Wednesday. Or a Thursday. And so on. I'll never understand them.

With Pakistan's leader justifying his actions based on what "Honest Abe" did prior to the Civil War, perhaps it's appropriate to call the GOP the Party of Lincoln and Musharraf.

The concern appears to be twofold: Affront to democracy, vs the outcome of allowing democracy in an undereducated nation with no small supply of extremists. While I admit the idea of the military bonking activist judges and lawyers on the head with a stick is somewhat poetic justice, it is concerning. This is will cause a backlash against Musharraf by uniting unfriendly factions, which seems likely to increase the odds of him being removed. A vacuum of power in an unstable, nuclear-armed nation is likely to be filled by influences unsympathetic to the United States. This, in conjunction with the moronic foreign relations blunder by Pelosi regarding Turkey, alters the entire strategic landscape in the war on terror. It�s doubtful �letting democracy work� in Pakistan will yield what we�d consider positive results. The consequence of democracy with the Palestinians was a parliament full of terrorists who started lobbing high explosives into Israel. In theory, the Palestinians were supposed to feel a sense of empowerment and use their energies to improve their society. Practice is where theory meets reality. The Federalist Papers provide a case study on reality and outlines instances where democracy works and where it fails.