Posted on 05/23/2009 4:13:33 PM PDT by Jbny
When Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December of 2007, we were appalled but not exactly shocked. In fact, a sort of unspoken consensus about the likelihood of her being taken down had been in the air since she announced her campaign for opposition leadership months earlier. Pakistan tends to deliver in this way.
The buzz now, and it’s palpable, is that the civilian government of Bhutto’s husband Asif Ali Zardari will fall to Taliban/al Qaeda forces. Counterinsurgency guru David Kilcullen predicts the collapse in “one to six months.” In 2007, there were reassurances from Pakistan that threats to Bhutto were being handled by Islamabad; today, important Pakistanis boast of having the situation under control. Former diplomat Mustafa Malik writes in the Daily Star:
Pakistan is used to “extremism.” The overwhelming majority of Pakistanis can live on $2 a day and weather the economic crisis. And I’ve learned reliably that Pakistan’s nukes are very secure under the vigil of its 600,000-strong armed forces.
There is very little to be “learned reliably” about Pakistan’s security or its nuclear arsenal.
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The Pak Government will fall before the end of summer.
Hillary thinks it can be saved, if we give them more money. Buying friends never did work well.
Our dear leader is going to kill a lot of people before this is all over....
pray tell the “unspoken consensus”& where are the facts on Benazir Bhutto demise?
She and the other Foggy Bottom idiots still think we can bribe NK to do what we want too. The only “progress” they will show will be in throwing our friends (like Israel) under the bus.
There, all fixed.
Cheers!
“Counterinsurgency guru David Kilcullen” ? I don’t think so. This story is just nonsense.
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