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Bhutto

metirish Dec 27 2007 07:03 AM

Shocking but hardly surprising. [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2232459,00.html]Benazir Bhutto killed by bomb at rally[/url]

Benjamin Grimm Dec 27 2007 07:21 AM

No, not at all surprising. By returning to Pakistan she put her life in very great danger. I had been thinking that this was probably inevitable.

Edgy DC Dec 27 2007 12:34 PM

Huge security implications, with a nuclear country destabilized and moving toward civil war. Pakistan has long been one of those countries where we've had to weigh democracy against stability.

Nymr83 Dec 27 2007 02:14 PM

read this earlier, not good. we'll just have to wait and see what develops.

Frayed Knot Dec 28 2007 11:56 AM

'Charlie Wilson's War' dealt a lot with the tight-rope that is Pakistan -- at least the book did, I doubt the movie can/will get into as much detail. Charlie's Texas oil-money cronies (one of which is the role played by Julia Roberts) were forever singing the praises of Pakistan's strongman of that era Muhammed Zia-ul-Haq, and were constantly trying to sell the idea to Beltway policy makers that Haq was the man the U.S. should be backing and to pay no attention to those nasty stories that he was the one who had ordered the execution of Bhutto's father, even though there was little doubt that he had.