Musharraf's brick wall

You know the will of the people is always the final say in politics. I don't care how despotic the dictator, in the end, the will of the citizens wins out. Take a look at the fall of the Tsars in Russia: you'd be hard pressed to find a more despotic set of rulers than the Tsars,and yet, the Russian people wanted a duma, and they got it. They were still repressed, but it was a repression they had chosen, a fact that has confounded non-russians ever since. Likewise, I think the recent elections that put in PPP and PML-N in power over parliment will confound westerners. Because the will of the Pakistani people is not the same as the will of western leaders. I don't think they are looking to isolate or depose Musharraf, I think they simply want a rule of law. Pakistan simply wants to go back in business. So, efforts to see this as a referendum or a mandate will fail. I think it was primarily because they want to live in a country where opposition leadrs are not assassinated, and where judges rule courts, politicians run the government, and generals conduct the military. This will for normalcy is Musharraf's brick wall. I think he was counting on his people being able to overcome the will of the people. I think he believes he can break the will of the people, so he can run a Junta that controls over all, because people are too fearful for anything else. I think people are scared in Pakistan, but more than scared, they have a will to be something other than a football between America and Wahabbists. If the PPP fail to recognize that, it will be their doom. If Sharif doesn't recognize that it's not about him, Bhutto, or Musharraf, he'll be in exile, soon. His call to restore the Supreme court is a good idea, but any attempts to depose Musharraf would be bad. Instead, this new not-quite coalition government should do everything they can to restore things to the way their people want it: a secular society where business can flourish.