The curse of the moderates By Caroline B. Glick
Ten days after the Pakistani elections, the geopolitical consequences President Pervez Musharraf's political defeat are beginning to come into focus. And they are grim.
By any measure, Pakistan is a dysfunctional state. At least twenty-five percent of its 160 million people live in abject poverty. A third of Pakistanis suffer from illiteracy. The only prospering school system in the country is the Islamist system where millions of children are indoctrinated by preachers who share the world views, religious beliefs and political goals of al Qaida and the Taliban.
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