Partly Facetious: just a bit more interference in our domestic affairs

"Everyone got angry when Condi Rice said we should have free and fair elections."
"They can't dare to be angry at her!"
"OK, so they all got upset."
"Yes - a much better choice of word and I agree: they all vociferously maintained she had interfered in an internal matter."
"Who do you mean by all? Musharraf, and his cronies?"
"Cronies is the wrong word - it supposes equality. You should have used the word Lotas. And in response to your question everyone was upset at Condi's statement including Musharraf - just goes to show he is shook on reelections after all."
"It would have been better to leave the defending to his Lotas."
"Well, it's not as if he has great faith in any of them if you know what I mean."
"Yes I do. But what I find strange is that no one in power labels as interference when we hand over Pakistani citizens to the US for crimes of terrorism, when we redeploy armed personnel along the border according to US wishes, when we pretty much do what is dictated by Washington."
"Whatever our government does is in the national interest? Haven't you wised up to that yet? And by the way this is yet another example of continuity as far as our military and non-military governments of the past two decades are concerned. BB and Nawaz Sharif didn't do anything differently."
"But our current government has been doing everything on the say so of the Americans. I ask you: aren't all these other matters to be regarded as internal matters. How can we allow a foreign government to continue to tell us what to do?"
"We can't be an Iran."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, we can't take on the US that's for sure."
"So we crib about fair and free elections but about nothing else!"
"That is a highly sensitive issue for our political leadership."
"And they are at present only sensitive to their definition of democracy."
"Yes that is absolutely right."