If Islam is the problem, how is democracy the solution?
Some British and American diplomats claim that democracy is the solution to Saudi Arabia's problems.
Before the revolution he authored scathing criticisms of President Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime in regular press columns, often ending with the words, "Democracy is the solution".
Signed off with the message "Democracy is the solution", it opposed both secular dictatorship and the growing power of the Muslim Brotherhood – for whom, always and everywhere, "Islam is the solution".
But if elected governments have yielded Pakistan little until now, those who see democracy as the solution to the country's problems still have an argument that is hard to refute.
If they do not want to meet the same fate as the Essex men of 1381, they should not settle for the ruler's sops, but push instead for outright revolution while they still can.This dilemma sets up the book's main thesis: democracy is a solution to the elite's commitment problem.
Under the PRI, the judges, like the Congress and the state governors, took their orders from the executive.But as well as offering potential solutions, democracy has in turn brought a novel problem for law enforcement.
You mentioned two solutions that would enable democracy to take root here: a fair election and a credible inquiry into the murder of Benazir Bhutto.
In Washington, anonymity, as Winston Churchill said of democracy, is a lousy solution, except for all the others.
The only solution is democracy, to make officials careful about what they say and what they do.
