Benazir Bhutto RIP
Mark Steyn cuts through the noise:
Benazir Bhutto's return to Pakistan had a mad recklessness about it which give today's events a horrible inevitability. . . . Since her last spell in power, Pakistan has changed, profoundly. Its sovereignty is meaningless in increasingly significant chunks of its territory, and, within the portions Musharraf is just about holding together, to an ever more radicalized generation of young Muslim men Miss Bhutto was entirely unacceptable as the leader of their nation. . . . Earlier this year, I had an argument with an old (infidel) boyfriend of Benazir's, who swatted my concerns aside with the sweeping claim that "the whole of the western world" was behind her. On the streets of Islamabad, that and a dime'll get you a cup of coffee. As I said, she was everything we in the west would like a Muslim leader to be. We should be modest enough to acknowledge when reality conflicts with our illusions. Rest in peace, Benazir.UPDATE: Charles Johnson highlights an NRO Roundtable on the assassination as well as NDTV.com coverage from India.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:26 PM
Yes and we continual to send Billions there to keep a Dictator in Power. A Country were Bin Lauden is useing as a strong hold. and all this in a Country that we know has nuclear wepons, that will befor long be in the hands of thoses that hate us.