Re: Things I dislike about Musharraf
When the hurricane/cyclone hit Balochistan, and the attention shifted to Lal Masjid, how do you think the nation handled this national disaster? Reports were clear and loud that whatever help the government WAS trying to give Balochis was not reaching them, because the middle men were running off with the goods. Designated, appointed, elected representatives of these people were not taking care of them.
Now, try sitting in Musharraf's position. You have to take care of your people. You can't let them get bombed by the rising "war on terror". You can't give the world an excuse to enter your country, take over government power, and erase national sovereignty. And then you have inefficient middle-men not allowing their own people get the help and assistance they need.
We're talking about people who steal loaves of bread from a fishing village that was fairly wiped out after the cyclone.
HOW do you handle this mess? By delegating power to others? The same people that are there ready to get that power are the same people that have been robbing the country for decades. Before they were born, it was their fathers.
Could you sleep at night giving power to these jerks?
And lets say you were to find honest people and appoint them to the job. In a country where a para likha lawyer finds no problem in disgracing himself by throwing paint on a minister's face, in a country where a para likha primary ISI guy sets up a maulvi gang in a masjid and then holds children hostage, what hope do you REALLY have?