Sunday, November 17, 2002 :::
 

I seem to have missed this election of a Pakistani parliament. Does anyone know how farcical the election was? My understanding is that their presidential referendum was pretty flawed (especially seeing the 98% figure given in the story I linked to), so I can't imagine this election was entirely clean, either.

Pakistan's a tough case; the U.S. would almost certainly be worse off if they democratized now, and Pakistan might well be. Gradual movement in that direction (with an emphasis on rule-of-law and, generally, the development of a culture appropriate for democracy) is probably the best thing we can hope for. That's what I'm supposing this is. So, yay, I guess.

::: posted by Steven at 4:14 AM

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