Your brief is to walk the razor's-edge of maintaining good relationships with Musharraf, Paki radicals, the Indian government and other interested parties while rooting out bin Laden. I think it's clearly in our interest to keep Musharraf in power because he's the only moderating influence in an Islamic fundamenalist country that is also armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. Remember, the Pakis were sharing nuclear secrets with most of our enemies before Musharraf exposed the ringleader. But if M. goes too far in placating us, he'll die at the hands of domestic Paki terrorists. Remember what happened to his predecessor.
With your great wisdom and statesmanship -- which you've told us about so often here -- I'm sure you have better answers to these little problems than the officials and brave militry people who have dedicated their careers to solving them. You probably have better military intelligence too. Please give us all a report when you've accomplished the task, explaining just how you went about it. It shouldn't take you more than a week or two.
>>Musharraf exposed the ringleader. But if M. goes too far in placating us, he'll die at the hands of domestic Paki terrorists. Remember what happened to his predecessor.
1. Mush didn't expose the ringleader. The US did, with the help of Qaddafi and Mush had no choice but to Pardon Khan.
2. Mush's predecessor was overthrown by Mush in a coup d'etat. Mush then consolidated his position by having an election after 911 where he won something like 95% of the vote.