Re: Gen Musharraf promoting his book in whitehouse
Washington likes Musharraf because Pak military rulers, somewhat stripped of their moral authority and defences of a fully democratic dispensation, give in to its arm-twisting without much resistance.
I still remember the way NS govt, with army behind him, decided to go nuclear despite very strong pressure exerted on his admin. not only from outside the country but from the servile pseudo-liberals (mostly the press) within the country as well. Gohar Ayyub Khan aggressively fought Pakistan's case, for which I admire him greatly. On the other hand, unfortunately, our current president looks apologetic and defensive, and sometimes appears more interested in pleasing Washington than pleasing Pakistanis. Only because he doesn't have a fully functional democratic set-up backing him up.