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Benazir Bhutto: Killed by the real Pakistan
A recent CNN poll showed that 46 percent of Pakistanis approve of Osama bin Laden. Aspirants to the American presidency should hope to score so highly in the United States. In Pakistan, though, the al-Qaeda emir easily beat out that countrys current president, Pervez Musharraf, who polled at 38 percent. President George Bush, the face of a campaign to bring democracy or, at least, some form of sharia-lite that might pass for democracy to the Islamic world, registered nine percent. Nine! If you want to know what to make of former prime minister Benazir Bhuttos murder today in Pakistan, ponder that. There is the Pakistan of our fantasy. The burgeoning democracy in whose vanguard are judges and lawyers and human rights activists using the rule of law as a cudgel to bring down a military junta. In the fantasy, Bhutto, an attractive, American-educated socialist whose prominent family made common cause with Soviets and whose tenures were rife with corruption, was somehow the second coming of James Madison. Then there is the real Pakistan: an enemy of the United States and the West. Posted by: Steve White 2007-12-27 |
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