Looked into his soul.

I'd forgotten this moment.

Last September, when Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf visited the White House to tout a controversial plan for driving al-Qaeda from his country, President Bush responded at a joint news conference with a trademark profession of faith. When Musharraf "looks me in the eye" and says there "won't be a Taliban and there won't be an al-Qaeda, I believe him," Bush said.

(This is the lead paragraph of a WaPo piece trying to paint a narrative as to why the administration hasn't done more about Al Qaeda reconstituting itself in Pakistan. The subtext the article is meant to pass is "we're working on it."

I'd be curious who sourced the narrative.)