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Given the generally negative view of Pakistan on Capitol Hill, the idea of lifting sanctions may have seemed far-fetched, but perhaps no more so than the idea of persuading Musharraf to antagonize the Islamists in his own government and nation.
He can bypass the choice among issues by persuading voters to focus on the candidates' biographies instead of their platforms.
No, wait, sorry--he can also attempt to emulate it by persuading the Florida legislature to "reform" its death penalty statutes so they can kill folks as fast as Texans do.
Actually, the debate has been about persuading you what it's about.
Another al-Hayat article said that American "shamelessness is set to make a major comeback" in the region, as, since Kosovo, there is "no prospect of persuading the policymakers in Washington that they are not always right--just as it was impossible to persuade Saddam that he did not win the 1991 Gulf War, or Milosevic that it was his savagery which led to the latest bombing campaign and provided NATO with moral cover for its first dirty war.