Alright enough, I had been privately thinking these thoughts for a while but did not wish to voice them for being illegitimately attacked as trying to keep the President of Pakistan, “An all boys club.” But We are in crisis mode now it has to be said. Benazir Bhutto needs to get gone.

As I have said before, she has stones, it takes a real piece of work to be this opportunistic. I mean lets be really serious and get to the brass tacks. She was elected twice and was expelled from her position as Prime Minister due to charges of corruption. And in that part of the world there must have been some serious corruption going on, since that is basically how they do business.

Now before the bleeding heart, “she’s a woman and thus that was why she was disposed of not due to corruption” feminist rhetoric gets spun, not this fact, the same Judicial System that is upset with Musharraf upheld these findings against Bhutto. They have this “people are equal under the law” type thing in their Judicial system, at least they are trying.

Now lets get into the current crisis. Telling the people loyal to you to start trouble by rioting and protesting, is not the best way to get a guy you think is abusing power, to relinquish it. If Musharraf was really as bad a dude as we are to believe, then he would just have his guys open fire and be done with it.

“But Musharraf was preventing democratic reforms to keep power.” Your point would be…what? That is a bad thing? Have you heard some of the rhetoric that gets spouted over there? Death to America this, Allah will smite the US that. I mean they are almost as happy 9-11 happened as Gulianni is, it gives them a platform to be relevant to the world stage.

Lets also remember that it was during the rule of Bhutto that the Taliban gained power in Afghanistan, thinking it would provide stability to the region. Her government even provided financial and military assistance so that Pakistan could trade with the Central Asian Republics. How well did that pan out for everyone involved?

This created the situation where the Pashtun, who are ethnically related to the Taliban Government in Afghanistan, started to have the loyalties strained. They have since been siding with their Afghan brethren making all kinds of problems, and possibly hiding Osama Bin Laden.

Have some decisions Musharaff made, become questionable when scrutinized? Yes, did Pakistan have a fantastic wonderland full of human right, democratic values, warm fuzzy feelings for those not of their religion until Musharraf took power? No. He inherited a bad situation and is making the best that he can.

We have to look at the alternatives of who would take power should Musharraf get sent into exile, I mean retirement after this situation calms down. A third times the charm election campaign for Bhutto? Or worse still, one of the Islamic Parties that want Pakistan to realign itself with the literal word of the Koran, rather than the capitalistic West.

We may not like it but Musharraf looks to be the best hope we have for a country that has problems feeding itself, but now has nuclear technology and the ability to launch missiles at an ally in India, or a large segment of the population who would use it for an attack on the US. If Bhutto keeps this obscenely selfish power struggle up we may have only one solution, the Marine Snipers call it, “The Pink Mist.”