Friday December 28, 2007

I've Been Thinking:

The United States bears indirect culpability for what is happening in Pakistan.
This was a serious blow to democracy and to US foreign interests.
The United States overplayed its hand.

The United States insisted that Bhutto return to Pakistan despite the threats against her life, threats that were serious from the outset.
The United States was trying to stimulate democratic juices and energize the Pakistani populous for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The United States was myopic in supporting Bhutto and in forcing Musharaff to accept her return.
The United States was oblivious to the ugly and dangerous situation it was causing in Pakistan.

Certainly, Bhutto was popular, but there was also a very vehement anti-Bhutto faction in Pakistan and that group included terrorists who rejected her for nothing more than the fact that Bhutto was a woman. Others hated her because she was modern, egalitarian, pro-Western and Oxford and Harvard educated.

Bhutto knew the risks, she was fearless, she became a martyr for the cause of democracy.

Pakistan will recover from this turmoil.
The legacy of Benazir Bhutto will be the three children she has left behind.

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