[Jet Jaguar]

ping.

Any thoughts?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Not surprised...she was the U.S. State Department’s last, greatest hope for unseating both Musharif and the Islamo-crazies before she stupidly got herself killed.

[garyhope]

So is it a good thing or a bad thing that she’s dead?

[garyhope]

Which brings up another question I've been thinking about, has political assassination ever achieved positive results or has it always been disastrous?

[Tailgunner Joe]

Benazir Bhutto, The Former Prime Minister Of Pakistan, Describes Her Dealings With The Taliban - Dec 10, 2007

NEWSWEEK: The Taliban came to power in Afghanistan while you were prime minister of Pakistan. Why did you support the Taliban?

Benazir Bhutto: The Taliban were actually students in university who decided to go back to Afghanistan after the Russians left. My reports were that the Taliban were being welcomed by the people and that they were building peace. Initially we thought the Taliban was a stabilizing force. My government was keen to establish ties with Central Asia, so we were quite pleased and we encouraged them initially.... We wanted to import wheat and export cotton to Central Asia and wanted a route that would give us access to Central Asia through Kandahar [where the Taliban is headquartered]. We were trying to bypass Kabul and establish an enclave in the south. The Taliban were supposed to give us safe passage.

Q: What did the Taliban stand to gain?

A: Initially we gave them political and diplomatic support. We also gave them fuel, food, communications, transportation. The Taliban rose up and were embraced by us because we saw them as the ticket to our own economic interests regarding Central Asia.

[SlapHappyPappy]

Impossible. She is a saint and a martyr and would never have done anything wrong. All those stories of fraud surrounding her and her family were just disinformation.

Isn’t that what we were told?

[JasonC]

It is certainly possible. It is also possible the journalist is simply lying to sell books. Truthfulness is essentially unknown in both Pakistan and India. Where fiction is more useful for any practical person, people lie as you or I would wear shoes.

[Yomin Postelnik]

Weird how all these media darlings are so unworthy of the praise heaped on them. I remember the comparisons to JFK and the near tears. Everyone knew she’d funded al-Quada in neighboring Afghanistan in her second term as PM. Granted, she wasn’t a supporter, just an opportunist. But isn’t that bad enough? In fact, isn’t that quite bad?

[The_Republican]

Why would Premiere of Pakistan, tell the most devastating information such as supplying Nuclear Secrets to a State Sponsor of Terrorism and thus risking her own Government’s support from US and her own Country, to an INDIAN journalist?

Anyone with half a brain should figure out that this is India’s attempt to bring heat on Pakistan and try to sour their relationship with US.

[AmericaUnited]

If true, she deserves the death penalty.