After the martyrdom of my mother [Benazir Bhutto], I said that democracy was the best revenge -- and today it was proved true.
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The ultimate question that confronted me was whether it was in our national interest to destroy ourselves for the Taliban. Were they worth committing suicide over? The answer was a resounding.
Although a dictator, Mr. Musharraf is an intelligent and enlightened man, one dedicated to his country's best interests and advancement. The comparison that comes to mind is Ataturk. Pakistan is barely a country in certain respects. It is an explosion of extremes, religious, political and economic.
In the end, a new civilian government could prove at least as helpful, perhaps even more so.
For all the praise lavished on him by Washington, Mr. Musharraf was a far less effective ally than he was portrayed to be, posing as the stalwart ally but doing far less then he claimed
who had been gloating over the drubbing that the Indians were getting, [later] began to feel uncomfortable. In all fairness to him, the military leadership had failed to apprise him of the politico-diplomatic fallout and he characteristically made no effort to analyse this aspect [himself]
While preparations for executing the plan began in November/December 1999 [sic.; presumably 1998]
as a soldier, as a general, I am far, far superior to an Indian army general.