With each passing hour it becomes less likely this will produce a similiar situation to the Duke’s assasination that kicked off World War 1.
That said, Musharaff has a once in a lifetime opportunity to clean out the hornets nest, with the support of the majority of Pakistan’s population.
Here’s hoping he lets loose the dogs, and burns out those giving ‘safe harbor’ to the Taliban and al Qaeda types.
If he doesn’t....he’s as dead politically by summer as Bhutto is dead in reality. The terrorists have a victory in their minds to build upon, after a seven year long string of defeats across the globe.
Just my opinion.
...If Mussy is not dead in reality himself like Bhutto by next summer, since he too has been threaten a few times himself.
-—With each passing hour it becomes less likely this will produce a similiar situation to the Duke’s assasination that kicked off World War 1.-—
It took a month for the major powers to actually go to war and a string of actions without which war might have been diverted. The hours after had little to do with it. We don’t really know which incident might start the chain of events or even what the chain of events might look like. The politicians back then thought they were playing a game which would benefit them, not incinerate there world.