Look how the New York Times provides free excuses and justifications for US disregard of human rights violations: "The Bush administration signaled Sunday that it would probably keep billions of dollars flowing to Pakistan’s military, despite the detention of human rights advocates and leaders of the political opposition by Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the country’s president. In carefully calibrated public statements and blunter private acknowledgments about the limits of American leverage over General Musharraf." Yes, billions in military and economic aid limit the leverage.