It was also a “desperate reaction” to the Pakistani military’s heightened efforts to eradicate the militants—members of slain Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud’s operation, he noted—camped out in South Waziristan. "We need to go for deals—deals with the Pashtun, the elements in that tribal area so that we wean them away from the Taliban supporters there. We need to go for deals, that is the political strategy in Pakistan" Musharraf said. The story dampened the mood of a man who was otherwise basking in the completion of a successful speaking tour of eighteen American cities, including Philadelphia, New York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Des Moines, Dallas, and San Francisco. Full Article at The Daily Beast