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Who will dump the religious nuts and violent extremists that were useful for coming to power but are increasingly a hard to control liability first:
Pervez Musharraf or the Republican Party?
Oh, and before anyone tells me this isn't a fair comparison, you're absolutely right. The religious nuts and violent extremists in Pakistan are responsible for a few thousand or possibly tens of thousands of deaths (if you count all the cross-border terrorists since the 90's), the religious nuts and violent extremists here - a many hundred of thousands since 2001.