All due respect but that is one the most uninformed statements I have ever seen on FR.
If India attacks Pakistan....which they are now justified to do after this recent attack that murdered women and children...then Pakistan "must" retaliate.
The Pakistani people already see Musharaf as an illigitimate tool of the United States that is betraying Islam [I am not talking about the radicals...in our definition, the majority of Pakistanis would be considered radical] and if he were to then allow India...their "bitter to the point of stupidity" enemy to assault into Pakistan, he would most assuredly lose the power you refer to.
This thing could blow...and if it did come to an exchange...it would really be ugly. Without a doubt the single greatest loss of life in history. Not that I would mind some neighborhood revitalization in that region but nobody intentionally wants that kind of slaughter.
This is what you get when you have two idiot religions in control of nuclear weapons.
Grace Lord, grace.
I think headline MAY be OK, since such an invasion might get Musharraf out of Pakistan and safely into retirement by his Walden in New England, before he is murdered as is the usual fate of Muzzie leaders.