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Topic: Benazir Bhutto
| Author | Message |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 12/27/2007 12:04:36 PM | show profile May she rest in peace. What a sad world we live in, it seemed inevitable. |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 12/27/2007 12:13:44 PM | show profile The best we can hope for with our "good ally" Pakistan is that it doesn't descend into civil war with the extreme fundamentalists getting ahold of the nukes. |
| stinking prague | Posted – 12/27/2007 12:30:33 PM | show profile The extreme fundamentalists already do have the bomb |
| chucho | Posted – 12/28/2007 5:50:07 AM | show profile The US had given billions in military aid to Pakistan. Much of that money has gone to bulwark against India (not the intended purpose). Some of it has been diverted directly to Al-Qaeda via the Taliban -- as brilliantly reported by Frontline's great newsman Martin Smith (but then nobody watches Frontline and this stuff doesn't get covered that much on cable news because there's always a smoking chimpanzee somewhere that needs full coverage). The extremists in Pakistan view Musharaff as America's poodle. The moderates in Pakistan (there are a lot of them -- the Pakistanis that supported Bhutto, the lawyers that protested Musharraf's firing of judges, etc.) have to fight lots of fronts. You have to keep in mind that Pakistan had a democracy and the extremists were never able to gain many seats. (most Pakistanis don't want Taliban-ike rule.) What's empowering the extremists is America's war on terror, the CIA working with the ISI flying drones over Waziristan blowing up shit. We are one of the biggest challenges to Pakistan's moderates. I wouldn't doubt for a secodn that Bhutto was assassinated because somebody (probably in the ISI) is really worried that his personal gravy train of US military aid would be cut off if Bhutto took power again. My theory anyway. |
