[oceanview]

at some point, keeping Musharaf in power while at the same time the nuclear information and material is coming out of the country, is counter-productive. what are we keeping him in power for, if the two things we want from him, the top AQ people and controls on the nukes, we aren't getting?

[Miss Marple]

The answer to your question is this: we keep him in power because the alternative is far, far worse. If Musharraf goes, he will be replaced by a fundamentalist Islamic nutcase, who will have nuclear weapons.

And Musharraf has helped us, no doubt about it. We have caught a lot of AQ in Pakistan.