Major Gaffe: McCain said Pakistan was a failed state Posted by Max Bergmann

McCain just badly misstated the history of Pakistan. For someone claiming extensive foreign policy knowledge, this is simply not acceptable. McCain said Pakistan was a failed state before President Musharraf came to power. That is not true.

Musharraf took power in a military coup in 1999 when he diposed Nawaz Sharif - who recently participated in the latest election. The coup followed the 1999 war in Kashmir with India and was due to a power struggle with Sharif, not due to Pakistan being a "failed state." The United States did not welcome the Musharraf coup. Instead the government of the United States imposed sanctions against this action.

Remember Pakistan had nuclear weapons in 1999. Did McCain believe that there was a failed state that possessed nuclear weapons? If he did he showed no concern at the time. The fact is McCain made a huge gaffe and demonstrated he has little understanding if the region.

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Pakistan is for all practical purposes a failed state. It was and still is. The real danger is when it becomes a collapsed state. According to a popular but rather humorless Pakistani joke, "all countries have armies, but here, an army has a country".

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Obama was arguing that Bush's relationship with Musharraf was not effective - that it didn't help us to capture Bin Laden or flush any other terrorists out of their safe haven in Pakistan.

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Obama was arguing that Bush's relationship with Musharraf was not effective - that it didn't help us to capture Bin Laden or flush any other terrorists out of their safe haven in Pakistan.

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Musharraf took power in a military coup in around 1999 when he diposed Nawaz Sharif..

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