They are not analytical and have no vision, their reactions to any problem are knee jerk.
You have described politicians universally ash. The same is said in every country in the world, the difference is without ..it is just said without as much venom or consequence.
Musharraff went back on his promises to the nation, Nawaz went back on his promises not to return or participate in politics, Zardari went back on his promise to support the president and not to impeach him. And during all this time let the country burn. Promises between crooks is our biggest issue?
Ah pragmatists...it is said the ultimate idealist is a saint or a madman, what does that make the ultimate pragmatist? so the joke goes Maulana Fazlur Rehman!
I've said this before, it's a very very basic argument nation states are not destroyed by their politicians being crooks or idiots; financial corruption at it's worst impoverishes nations, stifles development but it does not destroy them.
Nations are destroyed by a leaders corruption of power. To elaborate I'd argue Yahya to a greater extent and Musharraf to a lesser extent are not personally corrupt but I'd say there obsession with power exacerbated Pakistan's ethnic and sectarian divisions to a level that led to the state "writ" disintegrating.
Justice prevailing in Pakistan is tied to Iftikhar's re-instatement. Nothing more than deewane ka khuab. Masses are being made to believe that this is being done so that no other dictator ever thinks about jumping into politics, while at the same time we are giving Kiyani the signal that we want him to take action against Musharraff everytime he meets him. Like I said, you are too smart not to know what the real motives are.
Movements come, movements go ash, to say the US civil rights movement or countless others achieved their goal is a lie..in fact they failed ultimately (Nixon won!). What they do is change the terms of debate. The argument that a movement will just enable the army to take over (as it has in 1969 and 77) is to argue that any struggle is pointless?
JGovern the country first, please, and work on these issues side by side. Set your priorities right. Re-instatement of judges, impeachment of president will take till 2009 if everything goes smoothly,
Ash as someone who understands Pak politics knows that is a huge caveat..people don't know what will happen to them in the next five minutes in Pakistan let alone a year.