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Originally Posted by Igottago
The thing that gets to me is the US insistance that Pakistan is some great ally...there are major problems with fundamentalists in Pakistan..and guess where Osama is likely living? If they really want to fight th war on terror, they should be bullying Musharraf to clean up his backyard.
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But how do you bully a military dictatorship with fundamentalist Islam support and an arsenal of nuclear weapons? You can't really follow through on any military threats: you'll have a hard time building any support in neighbouring countries, and the Pakistani army is much more advanced and better-equipped than Afghanistan. I don't think Musharraf feels threatened by the US, and I doubt he ever really did. He's a great politian as far as making the deals that are necessary at any given moment to preserve his power.