Benazir Bhutto - Musharraf’s Electoral Farce (washingtonpost.com)
Oh, how I loathe BB. Even ignoring the Musharraf-size ego (regarding arrested political activists: “the majority [are] from my PPP”), she shows once again she’s perfectly happy to throw everyone and everything under the wagon to get her way, for example by implying that Musharraf could easily lay his hands on OBL if he chose — an implication that suggests Pakistan(is) know where OBL is.
Listen up, lady: you haven’t been elected yet either, so please recognise the irony in your rants about the current regime’s illegitimacy, and understand that this is not your personal waterfight with Musharraf but an opportunity to rectify the decades of negligence and delinquency our leaders have wrought upon us.
(A couple of very pimp, though tardy, posts on the situation are coming up. Stay tuned.)
couldn’t agree more.
choice BB words:
“this is a classic police state”
and barely concealed name-dropping lest anyone forget how she’s the only englightened educated hope of the country
“While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, …”
there’re more but i’ll message it to you to preserve my own dignity…
And here’s her niece, Fatima Bhutto:
Aunt Benazir’s false promises
I don’t yet know exactly what to think of her. On the one hand, she’s sufficiently ornery to sound sincere, but on the other she arguably suffers similar delusions about her father’s patriotism and purpose.