policies: mush vs Pak

"We have no Pakistan policy; we have a Musharraf policy. That's a bad policy. The policy should be based on a long-term relationship with Pakistan…" confessed Sen. Joe Biden, chair of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently.
And know what, many educated Pakistanis resent Bush's Musharraf policy, i.e., its unquestioned support to Musharraf without little or no regard to the people's democratic aspirations.
These people are also angry that Bush administration was silent on Nawaz's deportation. And this is the same class of people whom the administration intends to court to fight extremism.
US think tank observes that Washington expects Musharraf to lead the charge on extremism and terrorism, which, on his watch, have peaked to unprecedented levels. The negative fallout, for the U.S., of growing extremism in Pakistan is evident in the rising anti-American sentiment that is shared by 90% of its citizens.
Terrorists have never been stronger. Yet the Bush administration continues to regard Musharraf as an anchor of stability in the region.
A conservative thinker Chris Patten argues that "Afghanistan will never be stable unless Pakistan's military government is replaced with a democracy."