Western support for Pakistan as a friendly military state has produced a country which is a greater threat to global security than Iraq ever was. The Iraq war was at least in part about oil. The next phase for the neocon idealogues will be about control of nuclear threat, real of perceived. Bhutto was a pro-western groupie despite being part of the slow democratic process and creation of national political coalitions. Bhutto's death may advance her cause more than her survival would have. Watch out for her canonisation by Bush, Brown, Sarkozy et al as a martyr for democracy. Unfortunately more people will die in the region before things get better. Her death, in the short term, increases the probability that Pakistan will see more political violence spilling over its borders to other zones already de-stabilised by western encroachment.
Iraq and Afghanistan have been strategic victories for extremism, in that the US and its allies have not only been unable to defeat it militarily, but have created a far more active, organized and successful extremism, and have created a full strategic commitment necessity. The US Empire and its puppets have suffered another setback. Previously American military force was used to hold the frontiers against the USSR and China while puppets were used to control important countries. They never kept bases in countries that were part of their empire. Now they do because they must.
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She was murdered and the Pakistan goverment statements are false and lying. Musharraf had most to gain from her death and his hands are bloodstained.
ReplyDeleteWhichever way you cut it, a great and courageous lady has died and the world politics stage is poorer for this. God blessyou Benazir.
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