[DeaconBenjamin]

Bowing to your greater knowledge and expertise in this area, you can, no doubt, explain to me what options exist to Musharraf, and why they would each be an improvement. I would also enjoy your insights as to whether you prefer Pakistan as a democracy, or as a military dictatorship.

[swarthyguy]

How about a real crackdown on terrorists instead of house arrests and a revolving door policy.

And Pakistan, neither, break it up into a rump Pakistan and allow the parts that wish to join india or be independent the option to do so. It created the Taliban, has offered alqaeda a haven and engages in terror act against its neighbor using the presence of the US as a shield to prevent the indians from conduction operations to take out terrorist hideouts.