Practice Run in Pakistan?

Maybe it's just the cynicism and suspicion in my nature that makes me wonder, when I watch MSM news about Pakistan, if what's going on there isn't a practice run, a little glimpse into what is in store for us here, in America, should Musharraf succeed in establishing a permanent state of martial law there. After all, the US has used proxies (bin Laden in Afghanistan and the South Vietnamese against Russia, for example) to promote its agendas in countries we could not engage directly--why not use proxies to try out its domestic agendas, too?

It makes an appalling and grim kind of sense when you think about it. When they latched onto 9-11 as the vehicle for launching their New World Order, for turning their think-tank generated, fascist, ideological daydreams into real-life nightmares for the rest of us, they made a lot of mistakes, for which they are now being called to account. Albeit, the call to account isn't being made with the force it deserves, and the penalties are likely to be far short of anything we would consider just and appropriate (like impeachment proceedings and trials for war crimes), but we should probably be grateful that it's being made at all.

Coming so close to realizing their dreams, however briefly, I doubt these people are going to abandon them because they got caught. A vision cherished so dearly for so long isn't given up without a fight (two steps forward, one back is still considered progress), it just goes underground again--or is tried out through proxies. Let some other country work out the kinks and pay the price for failure; when they get it right, you copy the playbook and run the plays yourself. It's a classic risk management strategy, something our CEO-infested government understands--much better than it understands our "quaint" attachment to the Constitution and the rights as American citizens under that Constitution.

I think we should follow the events in Pakistan closely. And we shouldn't rely on MSM for our information--we should check out what is being reported online, from around the world. The things you get from outside the US are usually much more informative and unbiased than anything MSM tells us. And keep in the back of your head this question: could it happen here? And don't kid yourself--once upon a time, the idea that the United States would emulate some of the worst abuses ever attributed to the Soviet Union or Communist China (spying on its own citizens, renditions, torture) was absolutely unthinkable, too, yet has become a fact of life for us.