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Bhutto eulogy by Hitchens Submitted by Jameson on Fri, 2007-12-28 00:32.
Christopher Hitchens' perspective on her assassination here points to an inevitable convergence of nukes and al-Qaeda. So much for the $10 billion the US poured in to the Pakistani economy to grease the wheels of a Musharraf-Bhutto kiss-and-make-up.
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How?
I doubt this party will be in a position to bring to Pakistan what it needs.
It won't be. It wasn't in a position to bring it anything in the first place. What I think is needed in Pakistan is some hardcore military action from Musharraf. Forget democracy. That's for sometime further down the track. Democracy is a pipedream until such time as the Jihadists are taken care of. From our point of view, it doesn't matter what happens in Pakistan - whether it falls to pieces and goes to hell in a handbasket. All that matters from our point of view is to secure those Nukes from Jihadist hands. How?
From Bloomberg:
From Bloomberg:
Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Before Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party continues its power struggle with President Pervez Musharraf, it likely will face an internal power struggle over who will succeed her.
I think the internal power struggle will be more in the nature of who draws the shortest straw, won't it?
'You go leader.' 'No, you go leader.' 'No, no, I insist, I've no flak jacket, you go leader.'
With the extremists on one side gunning for them, and the army on the other, I don't think this comes down to a question of courage anymore. And without Bhutto's more westernised thinking and framework, despite the handicap of her faith, which I suspect she held to only by the thinnest of threads, I doubt this party will be in a position to bring to Pakistan what it needs. Although I see no way ahead, now, regardless.