Biden and Richardson discuss Pakistan strategy
GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — Democratic presidential candidates Bill Richardson and Joe Biden each spoke about the escalating situation in Pakistan, where the president there has declared a state of emergency.
Both were at a conference sponsored by the bi-partisan Center for Global Engagement at the Saint Anselm College Institute of Politics.
Both Richardson and Biden compared the situation in Pakistan to that of Iran in the late 1970s where the government eventually took American hostages. They said that to avoid that situation President Bush must reach out to moderate elements in Pakistan and encourage them not to support a more radical government, as is the threat if President Pervez Musharraf were to leave power.
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