Posted by zeugma on January 4, 2008, at 17:36:37
In reply to You might enjoy » zeugma, posted by Sigismund on December 31, 2007, at 19:22:50
William Dalyrmple has an essay in today's paper about Bhutto's assassination:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/04/opinion/04dalrymple.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=sloginIn it he ponders the irony that she was shot dead by the very forces she encouraged in Kashmir and Afghanistan during her terms as PM of Pakistan in the 80's and 90's. Without knowing enough about the history to critcise it for selectivity, I can state that these may not be the forces that killed her at all: Musharraf has all the credibility of certain U.S. politicians, and Scotland Yard is going to check up on his story (apparently Arlen Specter's call for a U.N. investigation is going unheeded, as good advice so often does).
One intriguing element of this case is that apparently Bhutto wished to meet with Specter and Kennedy in order to apprise them of an ISI scheme to fix the coming elections: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20080104_Worldview___Scary_Pakistan_demands_new_U_S__policy.html
To get on to a more pleasant topic, I stayed up all night watching Obama win Iowa. Needless to say, I was ecstatic.
-z
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