The Bhutto Assassination and Islam's War on Pakistan

American Thinker ^ | December 29, 2007 | Andrew Walden

[vietvet67]

Clouded by illusions that words like "democracy" and "president" mean similar things everywhere, and by the inevitable martyrdom that accompanies a brutal assassination, Americans are rather ill-prepared to understand the unvarnished truth of the problem Pakistan now poses.

"I am what the terrorists most fear" says Benazir Bhutto in an interview to be published now posthumously in the January 6 Parade Magazine. Sounds good to American ears. But she was grasping and self-interested, a beneficiary of Saddam's Oil for Food scam. Parade, in the kind of unvarnished look only possible before the assassination quotes Bhutto's own niece saying, "She has no legacy of her own except for corruption and violence."

Her deal with Pakistani President Musharraf to take the Prime Ministerial position for herself in the January 8 Pakistani elections would have broadened the regime's base of support by allowing many thousands more snouts from her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) into the trough. That was enough to make her a threat to the Islamists. Prophetically, Parade quotes a Musharraf insider saying, "She's the No. 1 target of the terrorists right now."

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto deals a blow to the hope for taking on the militants in the Pakistani sanctuary. It is also another sharp blow to the idea that political means can primarily or alone defeat Islamist terrorism.

Immediately after shooting Bhutto in the neck and head outside a Rawalpindi rally Wednesday afternoon, the assassin detonated explosives killing himself and at least 20 people. This was the second known attempt on Bhutto's life since her return from an eight-year exile forced by charges that she looted the Pakistani treasury of $1.5 billion.

[Sacajaweau]

Went back into the info on Bhutto’s father. People’s Party...Looked liked pure socialism to me.

[iopscusa]

Bhutto crime family is the hero of the Clinton crime family and the Gore Crime family and UN Crime Family and the MSM Crime family....and so on.

[canuck_conservative]

Isn’t there a joke somewhere about any party/country with the word “People’s” in its name being an elite oligarchy?

Just like any country with the word “Democratic” in its name is a police state.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

As part of a "democratization" process promoted by the White House, Musharraf. . . .

Hmmm, sounds familiar.. yes, I remember. As part of a "democratization" process promoted by the JFK White House, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi started down the road to ruin. . . .

[Savage Beast]

One unvarnished truth that the people of the West are reluctant to accept is this: Western decadence--which is the Left--is an unprecedented window of opportunity for jihadi, and Western Leftists are their enablers.

[maine-iac7]

a good, unvarnished assessment = one I’ll bookmark for reference.

Note it says:”Immediately after shooting Bhutto in the neck and head outside a Rawalpindi rally Wednesday afternoon, the assassin detonated explosives killing himself and at least 20 people...”

No malarkey about hitting her head, no blood, etc (a Pakistani newspaper (today) states the assassin was on a motorcycle = and has a photo of the interior of the vehicle in which she was shot = her shoes on the floor and plenty of blood.Bhutto had a very spotty past...

[neverdem]

Thanks, Happy New Year!