It was a very good week for Saudi Arabia. The royal family's favored Pakistani president-in-exile, Nawaz Sharif, returned in a triumphant homecoming, throwing down a major challenge to the rule of Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who's still favored, for the moment, by the United States.

Although Sharif can claim to be the true pro-democracy choice, given that he was the elected leader deposed by Musharraf's 1999 military coup, the United States is hoping to throw the deeply corrupt, but Western ...

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