Musharraf to West: 'We have our own brains'

"The mandate has been given. Why doesn't the West, which is supposed to be civilized, understand things?" Musharraf told CNN in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
"Why doesn't it understand that we maybe are a developing country, we have our flaws, we believe in constitution, we know how to run government, we are not such clueless people who do not know how to run a country, we have our own brains."
What do you think? Is Pakistan able to govern themselves? Do you think the US ought to leave them to work it out for themselves? Why doesn't the West "understand things?"

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Do we Not need this money spent here?

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