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I figured this was going to happen eventually. What a mess:

Since September 11, 2001, the U.S.'s Pakistan policy can be summed up in two words: Pervez Musharraf. But within the U.S. intelligence community, and in Pakistan, there's a growing belief that the U.S.-friendly military dictator's days are drawing to a close -- and possibly within the next few months. It may be time for the U.S. to face what it's long feared in the nuclear state: the prospect of chaos, rising Islamism or anti-Americanism that follows Musharraf.

The article goes on to say that "intelligence officials" also think that a smooth transition can occur resulting in a government friendly to the U.S. Maybe. Given the intelligence community's track record, it's hard to know what to believe. What we know is that there is a very very stong fundamentalist Islamic element in Pakistan that could easily take advantage of any power vacuums.