Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that the U.S. will review its aid to Pakistan after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency and suspended the nation's constitution on Saturday. ...

NEAL CONAN (Host): Peter Bergen is a terrorism analyst and author of two books on Osama bin Laden, also a senior fellow at the New America Foundation here in Washington. Today, he joins us from the studios of the BBC in Oxford in England. ... And it must be counted as a setback to U.S. foreign policy that Musharraf has made the decision to impose emergency rule.

Mr. PETER BERGEN (Senior Fellow, New America Foundation; Author, "Holy War, Inc." and "The Osama bin Laden I know): No doubt. But unfortunately, Musharraf has had a history of overreaching in the past, whether it was putting the fix-in in elections in 2002 that marginalized the secular parties and how the un-affect - the unintended consequence of the Islamist parties doing the best that they've done in Pakistani history, or whether it was being in charge of the ill-fated Kargil operation before he became president, the encouragement of India out of Kashmir, which was basically a defeat for the Pakistani military and its allies and the Pakistani militant groups.

And again, of course, now with this declaring emergency law, because Musharraf himself is now the least popular politician in Pakistan. He was before this declaration of emergency measures and I think he will double - it will doom him in even more politically. You know, he's got of a messiah complex. Anybody who's had to read his autobiography, "In the Line of Fire," realizes that he have used himself as the true savior of Pakistan, and unfortunately, he is going out on a huge limb here just as really it seemed that the return to real civilian rule was a real possibility. ...

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