If only he had held on and pushed for victory against India in the kargil war and then denying support to America in 2001. He could've had millions if not billions of soldiers to defend Islam and Pakistan against the crusade.
All he had to do was say that America has threatened war against Pakistan if Pakistan doesn't cooperate with them on Afghanistan. He should've said I have held my ground and put my trust in Allah, armed forces, and Muslims to repel the crusade and gain victory which Allah has promised to its believers.
But he became a jackal and that is how history is going to show him as. A corrupt, death fearing jackal who laid down with his pants down in front of America.
LOL.
Sorry young brother, but this is far fetched.
Why?
1. Musharraf was a very secular man. Read his biography, he has no interest in religion and certainly not in anything like the Caliphate.
2. Musharraf was a selfish man. He undid all his hard work in domestic politics by signing the NRO which allowed Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto back into power.
3. You grossly over estimate the military capability of Pakistan 20 years ago. Our airforce was junk, our navy nearly non existing and our army was equipped with old outdated gear. We'd have likely lost a long war in Kashmir, simply because we don't have the resources to finish it.
4.Similarly we'd have faced a swift and categorical defeat at the hands of the US military. No doubt the Indians would have used the opportunity to steal Kashmir too.
5. Nobody came to rescue Iraq, nobody was coming for us. Pakistan and Iran supported the Taliban out of self interest.
6. As in Iraq traitors lined up to support the Americans, in Pakistan traitors would have lined up to serve them too. Pakistani politicians have previously lobbied the US to attack Pakistan.
7. You will no doubt be itching to tell me about the Taliban victory at this point. I'd ask you to measure the criteria for that victory. 20 years of decimation and death. We would have looked like Syria today. At least Syria kept its territory - we'd have likely lost that too.
Life is not a fairy tale. Instead of looking at fantasies we should would to build our nation. The Pakistan of today might have refused. We'd likely have been ignored.
Let's work so that the Pakistan of 20 years time InshaAllah could have definitely refused and had the strength to enforce its opinion.
That won't happen with words. That happens with money, innovation and social reform. We need God fearing men and women in power - not dollar loving.
