Posted on 12/31/2007 8:17:56 AM PST by Invisigoth
The assassination of former and potentially future Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has left Pakistan in complete turmoil. Elections were scheduled for Tuesday, January 8, and no one is certain as of this writing whether they will go forward or not. Nor is it clear who the candidates on the ballot will be, much less which of them might win. And then there's the issue of whether President Pervez Musharraf will step aside or even share power no matter the result.
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LOL, Pakistan may be in complete turmoil when there about a thousand dead in the street's. This whole event has been rather mild when you look at prior events in this country. They pick up hundreds of dead bodies in Karachi ever morning.
But anyone who thinks there is an easy way out of this has a terminal case of hubris.
Certainly, it would seem that the Musharraf era is and should be coming to an end. But you can't replace somebody with nobody. Nor can you run even the slightest risk of those nuclear missiles falling into the hands of the Al Qaeda- and Taliban-backed groups.
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