This is what makes her murder such a disaster. There is at least some reason to think that she had truly changed her mind, at least on the Taliban and al-Qa'eda, and was willing to help lead a battle against them.She had, according to some reports, severed the connection with her rather questionable husband. She was attempting to make the connection between lack of democracy in Pakistan and the rise of mullah-manipulated fanaticism.
Of those preparing to contest the highly dubious upcoming elections, she was the only candidate with anything approaching a mass appeal to set against the siren calls of the fundamentalists. And, right to the end, she carried on without the fetish of "security" and with lofty disregard for her own safety.
Bhutto may have been the last chance for Pakistani democracy. You are correct about Hitchens -- he is spot on here.
Well stated. Now the problem is preventing the Al-Qaida/Taliban axis, bankrolled in part by the Saudis, from gaining control of Pakistan nuclear weapons arsenal.