"So the debate on the National Security Council will get messy, if the opposition threats are to be believed."
"I guess you can believe threats of disruption if nothing else, but what I can't understand is why did the Maulanas first accept the establishment of the NSC and then..."?
"Because they knew Musharraf will not agree to anything less."
"But Musharraf was having a hard time explaining his concept of the new and improved democracy to our American friends after he had been unable to address Parliament a year after elections.
My point is he was under greater pressure than the Maulanas and they need not have compromised on the NSC."
"Ah, but Bush still thought Musharraf was a good guy and while they may have pressured him into making some semblance of truce with the opposition the Americans sure as hell can not afford to let us be on autopilot so near Osama."
"Ah yes, Osama strikes again. You know he has really changed history. In the old days one fought wars with countries, now wars are fought with individuals? First Osama and Mullah Omar, then Saddam? I guess the next in line maybe Assad and then the Iranian Ayatollah and then..."?
"I get the picture. That is Bush's legacy to the world. But he may lose."
"And then, again, he may not. Anyway the opposition is going to fight the establishment of the NSC. However, I think the most mature statement regarding this issue, was made by Qazi Hussain Ahmed.
He implied that once Musharraf is gone, and go he will as all mortals do, and in his words 'a true democratic dispensation came into power the NSC will be dissolved and the act passed by the house will be repealed.'"
"Yes that's another thing. All our rulers whether unelected or democratically elected, have all assumed that the constitution is sacrosanct once they have fiddled with it, not realising that the next man or woman in may do the same to it."
"Yep, how soon they forget."
"However, what if the army insists that it not be dissolved?"
"The next chief of army staff may not, as Brutus said of Caesar, be ambitious."
"And then again he may be? After all we have several precedents here the mother of all laws and constitutional amendments in our country shall we say."?