To call President Musharraf’s recent speech to Brown students underwhelming insinuates the expectation that he was going to say something meaningful. Instead, we were left with vapid bullet points of leadership (he may need to work on that “sincerity” one), confusing and unaccommodating explanations of Afghan and Pakistani history, and the wintry realization that the former president of Pakistan is a solipsistic, mendacious and prevaricating louse.

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