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So I remember very clearly the day the coup happened in Pakistan and General Musharraf took over the country. That probably sounds odd to most of you, but what can I say, I was in the Navy at the time, and it was part of my job and happening not too far away from where I was. I was also 21 and young and idealistic and I thought this was step in the right direction for the region. (Just to clarify, he only took over the country because the previous government tried to have him killed. Of course maybe they tried to have him killed because he was planning to take over the country, that I don't know.) General Musharraf promised that he was only taking over because he had no other choice and that within a year there would be democratic elections for a new government.

That was 6 years ago and he's still in charge. He wasn't the hero of democracy I naively believed him to be. Of course right around the end of that first year 9/11 happened and let's face it, in a lot of ways I'm sure that effected Pakistan more than it did us. After all there isn't a foreign army moving back and forth across our borders and constantly demanding our help looking for terrorists.

Still I'd lost faith. And then tonight General Musharraf was on The Daily Show. It's all just too weird. I don't get the world.