U.S. envoy says Pakistani president assured him he wants to avoid war with India

I'm certain that this is true. Musharraf probably knows that Pakistan might not survive a war, and that he himself almost certainly won't. But on the other hand, he hasn't shown himself willing to pay the price -- a real, honest-to-God crackdown on terror -- to avoid war. That's how wars usually start, as far as I can tell. It's not that anyone really wants to fight, but they aren't willing to put a stop to the events that will lead to war. Heck, just think of Vietnam. Every single action that we took there was rational. It was only when you take a step back and look at all of them together that the insanity of the whole becomes clear.