[Dean's World] Ali Eteraz: AE @ HuffPo: Pakistan & President "Busharraf"

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Posted by Ali Eteraz:
AE @ HuffPo: Pakistan & President "Busharraf"
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1179096383.shtml


   My latest, on the political instability in Pakistan, is up at Huff-Po:

     Bush + Musharraf = Busharraf. This is what Pakistanis call their
     "enlightened moderate" (or is it, moderately enlightened) dictator.

     I met President Musharraf after 9/11. He held a talk and a dinner
     at the Marriott in DC, and the Pakistani Embassy invited members of
     the Pakistani-American community. He gave a short talk and then
     announced that dinner would be served. What kind of dinner was it?
     Musharraf and his wife came out, sat down on their table all by
     themselves, which was then cordoned off from the rest of the
     tables, and we could go to the edge of the restricted area and take
     pictures of the couple as they ate. I got as close to them as I
     could with my disposable Kodak and started snapping. I got a couple
     of good ones of Musharraf biting into a drumstick. Realizing the
     absurdity of the situation, I stopped taking pictures, raised my
     voice and got the attention of the autocratic couple.

     "Thank you for coming all this way," I said to them.