W & Pervez

W is being accused of being a hypocrite. Sure it is nothing new but he would have been able to avoid it this time if he would have based his foreign policy on realist assumptions and not Wilsonianism on steriods. Pakistani Prez Musharraf still holds two hats - head of state and head of the military - despite promises to drop his role in the military. Let's face it we needed Pervez to go into Afghanistan and pressuring him to democratize was never going to help us meet our short term goals. More important is for us to work with him on finding Osama, coming to terms with India and nuke proliferation.