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“There is an unrealistic or even impractical obsession with your form of democracy, human rights, and civil liberties, which you have taken centuries to acquire and which you expect us to adopt in a few years, in a few months. We want democracy; I am for democracy. We want human rights, we want civil liberties, but we will do it our way, as we understand our society, our environment, better than anyone in the West.”

– Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf, speaking last week to an audience that included Western diplomats after being sworn in as the country’s civilian president