Monday, July 22, 2019

Today's WorldView

Washington Post

This was especially good today. I couldn't stop reading it. I had to know what was going on everywhere in the world.

Or the lies being told everywhere in the world.

The lead story about Pakistan, really laid it on me:

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will call on President Trump at the White House on Monday during his first trip to the United States as Pakistan’s leader.

It’s a meeting of two celebrity gadflies turned rabble-rousing, nationalist politicians. Not unlike Trump, Khan, a wildly popular former captain of the Pakistani cricket team, entered politics with a reputation as a playboy but won an election in the guise of a patriotic savior. And, not unlike Trump, Khan rose to power by railing against his country’s alleged corrupt political elites. He commands the support of an energized and fanatical base that thinks he will make Pakistan great again. On Sunday, Khan appeared at a rally before thousands of cheering overseas Pakstanis at a packed Capital One Arena in Washington, vowing to tackle graft and redeem the nation.

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