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Notice to Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell's Staff: Read this article to your boy. Print out some of the links, and maybe he'll learn something while finishing out his last term.
When former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was murdered, any hopes of a Democratic peace died with her. Bhutto's past was as checkered as it got, and would in many quarters be considered corrupt, but the U.S. has painted itself into a corner. With Bush and his crack team of foreign policy amateurs, it's amazing a nuke hasn't gone off somewhere in the world by now.
Bhutto was well on the way to restoring Democratic-popular rule into a part of the world where tribalism and military dictatorship have been the status quo for centuries. A little over a week away from elections that could have changed the seat of power in Pakistan, and the top alternate is murdered.The other opposition candidate, former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is now boycotting the election. Who does this benefit? That's your likely killer. One thing that I find interesting is how quickly people assumed that the current military dictator Musharraf responsible for the killing. Relaxed security? Direct order? A coalition with bin Laden? Any combination of these?
Who knows. This is what happens when the U.S. props up these dictators in the name of "national security". This is an unstable nation that the U.S. apparently allowed to develop nuclear weapons, and this is the real problem. The Bush/McConnell approach to these types of things is to make deals with devils, and apportion only short term goals. This is how North Korea is now a nuclear power, and Iran is on the cusp. Bush/McConnell ='s World Less Safe
At this point, the U.S. should end all aid to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, tie the price of our exported wheat (you know...for food) to the price of oil, and see what happens. Everything else has failed, and it seems like we could use a real re-focus on who our enemies are.
Republican propagandist Matt Drudge handled the situation with his usual sensationalism and fearmongering....not to mention factually incorrect. Notice the screen capture.
"30 seconds from death"
Bhutto was pronounced dead an hour after the attack. She died at the hospital. But now, millions of Americans will be talking about this bullshit headline, and accept it as fact. This is a fundamental problem with Americans these days. They see a headline and run with it. Facts be damned.
Our problems are much bigger than who the next president will be. Our enemies are regrouping right now, and this could be the first of a new wave of attacks against U.S. interests. One thing Islamic extremists are REALLY good at is manipulating the American people/government. Remember that whole Iranian Hostage Crisis business? Bhutto assassinated a week and a half before elections? The U.S. has elections coming up in the next year? Most of our military is out of country....anyone else starting to get nervous?
The most frightening part of all of this is that the Bush administration is not only incompetent, but also, asleep at the wheel. Most people don't appreciate how this murder will reverberate for the next decade and how much ordinary Americans could be directly effected....and how quickly all of this could happen.
-Chuck
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