Bush & Mush: Tom & Jerry?

IIPM MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
It was touching, this show of trust. But, around the same time, Musharraf was also peddling his book In The Line of Fire. There he said the US had threatened to bomb Pakistan into the Stone Age if it didn’t back Bush’s war on terror. This unleashed just what Musharraf may have desired: A huge controversy. Bush smiled indulgently a few days later when Musharraf coyly suggested he couldn’t talk more because of his obligations with the publishers of his book. In such disarming fashion, Bush underscored the truth – the US-Pakistan equation is complex and extremely gratifying to their respective selfishness. Pakistan is the only major ally the US has in the Islamic world (Gulf nations don’t count because they have very little influence on international politics). The US accepts this, it is in fact ready to go the whole hog with Musharraf. Bush gropes without Musharraf on the question of bin Laden. The war on terror is the official glue and both nations have zillions of dollars riding on this.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative