President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has spent much of the last 6 years since he was reluctantly enlisted in the War on Terror juggling several competing interests, trying to keep all of them in the air at the same time lest one or two hit the ground causing catastrophe.There are the Americans, of course. We are problematic allies for Musharraf in that his country is perhaps the most anti-American nation in the world. Not because of our invasion of Iraq but rather because we overthrew the Taliban in Afghanistan - a move widely seen in Pakistan as butting into their business. Created largely by the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI, the Taliban was seen as allowing Pakistani influence to guide Afghanistan. Any move Musharraf makes that overtly brings Pakistan in close cooperation with the United States causes him no end of domestic political headaches with his major backers; conservative religious parties who run the radical madrasses where most of the Taliban fighters emerge...(Read Full Post)