This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, August 28th, 2008.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Pakistani President purveyes Mushar of the man who receives such a huge investment from the Bush

administration is out of office and Pakistan is in turmoil.

What are the prospects for the United States to repair its relationships in a region at the

heart of the fight against foreign-born terrorism.

Maloo innocent, a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute, just back from Pakistan, comments.

President Bush made a, in the United States, made a huge investment in Perviz Musharraf.

Well, you know, what did that get us?

Well, it's interesting.

I think that the United States presently in the so-called war and terror is repeating a lot of the same

mistakes that made during the Cold War in the sense that it sort of personalizes its

policy by embracing one particular leader or one particular political party or one particular

movement and sort of ignores the interests of the people of the of the

strategic interests of the country is involved.

And with Pakistan, throughout 2007, Musharraf made

blatant power grabs, such as sacking the Supreme Court Justice,

firing 60 judges, putting a gag order on the media, and then imposing a state of

emergency, and then the raid of Lalmas jeed, the Red Mosque and Islamabad.

And these continued sort of thwarting of democracy was seen within Pakistan as the United States sort of exerting its own interests within the region and the interests of Pakistanis be damned.

And so over time, and this is what we see also during the Cold War, especially after the United States

overthrew Mohammed Mosedek in Iran in 1953 in the sense that the United States

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