Bhutto's Tragic End

IBD ^ | December 27, 2007

[Kaslin]

War On Terror: Benazir Bhutto gave up a comfortable life in Britain to return to Pakistan where she felt the military regime wasn't doing enough to defeat terrorists. Tragically, she was right.

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A suicide bomber thought to be tied to al-Qaida managed to murder Bhutto as she was leaving a political rally Thursday in Rawalpindi, the very headquarters of Pakistan's military.

Running for prime minister, Bhutto had openly vowed to defeat al-Qaida and deny it the sanctuary it had gained in Pakistan under President Pervez Musharraf.

Benazir Bhutto, assassinated Thursday, votes for the first time in 1988.

"I am what the terrorists fear most," she said.

Her assassination was a tragic blow to her party's bid to check Musharraf in the Jan. 8 election, a contest that is now meaningless. She was the leading opposition candidate.

Musharraf, who had twice placed Bhutto under house arrest, no longer has to worry about an increasingly frustrated West using her as leverage to force democratic reforms or action against al-Qaida.

The former prime minister told CNN upon returning to her country that the risks of her assassination were worth it to save Pakistan from Islamic extremism and to stand up for democracy.

[PLMerite]

“Just wondering what makes a murder into an assassination?”

I would say that assassination is because of what you are - president, leader of some organization, a symbol of something. It requires you to have some power.

Murder is more personal.

If you kill a guy because he’s the leader of a country, it’s an assassination. If you kill the same guy because he’s doing your wife, it’s murder.

[CZB]

“....A WRITE IN PRESIDENTAL VOTE FOR JOHN BOLTON
DEMOCRATS FEAR HIM....”

John Bolton is far more qualified for a wartime presidency than any other public figure in America today. There’s no close second to Bolton. (And, for the record: half the Republicans fear him too.)