Re: Musharraf will not be in office by this time next year.
'Part of it, probably,' whereas before you were making definite statements and saying the whole topi drama is by Amreeka because we're not as pliant as they want us to be.
Well technically no one on this site as far as I know has the real story and ins and outs of it, so what we post is our theories and assumptions. so those definitive statements as you call them were just that..views..when you look at the specifics of the views then yeah US can have a part, internal military, political opposition can have a part.
The problem with gauging patterns and constructing theories is that they are exactly that. Patterns and theories. Every Government in Pakistan has relied on the trusty foreign hand to bail itself out, sometimes using the America card, because its so believable for us. Likewise every political party in Pakistan has a theory based on patterns and trends.
it does not mean that patterns and trends do not exist though does it. Its tantamount to telling an afghan that Pakistani agencies had nothing to do with the events that eventually put Taleban in place.
If we are the first people to believe in America's meddling hand in everything that happens in Pak, and if they are really clever enough to control an entire country's complete political process, then they really should be clever enough to do it in a way that you cant figure it out. Why would Boucher et al give this statement if Musharraf's supporters can dilute opposition against him by picking them up and proving opposition to Musharraf is support for America?
maybe not everything, but on issues critical to US, and the war on terror is critical enough. The question is not of supporting opposition is support for US. Because the theory is whoever is in power, whether its new faces or musharraf stays that they will be more accomodating. How many people here scream that pakistan is controlled by military. so if it is, does military not answer to anyone...maybe not in Pakistan, but they sure answered to US when the war on afghanistan was finalized.
and I suppose we still believe that Zia's death was of natural causes and it was not either our own services or external agencies or combination of them involved in that.
If we can have schemes behind getting rid of Zia, I am sure there can be schemes for getting rid of anyone. Whether its Musharraf or Kafeel Bhai.
While I believe America does play a hand and does manipulate things where it has an oppurtunity, I dont believe they're competent enough to control all this, when they are the same country that are getting their asses handed to them in Iraq and Afghanistan, where they have to deal with relative minnows.
two entirely different things. poor war execution is different from clandestine operations.
its similar to ISI vs Military, while the military got its arse handed to it a few times, ISI has been fairly successful in manipulating govts internally and externally case in point taleban, and use proxy tactics to keep India busy.