THE BHUTTO ASSASSINATION: NOT WHAT SHE SEEMED TO BE

NYPost.com ^ | 12/28/07 | RALPH PETERS

[Abathar]

Here is a take I haven't seen yet.

[Slapshot68]

“In fact, Bhutto was a frivolously wealthy feudal landlord amid bleak poverty. The scion of a thieving political dynasty, she was always more concerned with power than with the wellbeing of the average Pakistani. Her program remained one of old-school patronage, not increased productivity or social decency.”

Wow...pretty much an expose on our own idiot politicians inside the beltway.

[TexanToTheCore]

Corruption in the Bhutto family was endemic.

[ex-snook]

Chalk it up to another f’up in determining who should lead other countries.

[MNJohnnie]

Not a Peter’s fan but THANK GOD! Finally someone is speaking truth to the drama queen media!

[AmericaUnited]

I believe this to be true and I think Mark Stein said something similar today.

[Cicero]

Matter of fact, this is pretty much what I think. I hate to speak ill of the dead, which is why I didn’t say it earlier, but she was a corrupt member of a corrupt family.

Why did she stand up in her armored limo when she knew she was a target of assassins? Because she was brave? Or because she was stupid and couldn’t resist a moment of adulation by the crowd? It’s anyone’s guess, but I lean toward the second explanation.

[AmericaUnited]

They make this women out to be Mother Teresa and yet she’s just another corrupt, power hungry hack.

[G8 Diplomat]

Pakistan ۋﮧ۱م

FReepmail if you want on or off

[JAKraig]

With a large radical minority in an unstable country it is the only way to think. People give Musharraf a hard way to go because he is a military ruler that took over by force but he has been good for the country. It is his willingness to try to help the people of his country come out of the dark ages and into the 21st century that riles the radicals.

[JAKraig]

With a large radical minority in an unstable country it is the only way to think. People give Musharraf a hard way to go because he is a military ruler that took over by force but he has been good for the country. It is his willingness to try to help the people of his country come out of the dark ages and into the 21st century that riles the radicals.

[Abathar]

Yep, it is harsh to have to say it a day after her death, but he nailed it here.

[sarasota]

At last: the “real” Bhutto?

[MNJohnnie]

Yep Bhutto was just another Hillary type. An 60 radical left over opportunist corrupt Socialist wanna be woman politician willing to do or say anything to achieve power for the sake of having power.

[Slapshot68]

I believe “lesser of two evils” applies here.

[kalee]

Hillary was always more concerned with power than with the wellbeing of the average American. Her program remained one of old-school patronage, not increased productivity or social decency.

[Badeye]

He did. And both men are correct.

[angkor]

Follow the money. Pakistan is a full-fledged narcoeconomy (and Nawiz Sharif is by means exempt, through close family ties). There are very few good guys here.

[Oldexpat]

Between the Bhutto’s and the Ghandi’s and others like them, they succeeded in keeping S. Asia a hell hole. Only the reforms in India..free enterprise have helped it turn around. The Bhutto family was currupt and did help to keep their country in poverty and allow the madrass’s to spread their culture.
I agree with the writer.

[MNJohnnie]

I agree it is harsh but given the rush to canonize Bhutto, someone must speak truth.