-THE CUNNING REALIST-: "As I argued in this recent piece, our relationship with Musharraf is only one example of our hypocrisy, which is what we are really fighting in Iraq, the Middle East and around the world. Is it possible that our political leadership has deluded itself into believing its own hollow bromides about democracy, while the rest of the Islamic world wonders why an ally of ours forbids public gatherings of more than three people"