I wanted to have a nice long relaxing vacation, I wanted to try for myself the proposed foreign policy of President Huckabee, just you wait, of isolationism.
Then Pakistan had to go all Armageddon on me and everything became turned upside down. Logic seemed to be gone and it was a terrible global tragedy that someone died while being stupid. Bhutto supporters started tearing the country apart, apparently that is how Muslims react to every event, and media outlets told us how terrible this is.
Correct me if I am wrong, but we all saw this coming right? Even when she was pardoned and was coming back to the country, the threats came out, the pleas came from Musharraf’s government to wait two weeks so that they can put a clamp down on things. This was rejected by Bhutto, who felt that democracy would be her shield.
Then like our President she found out that Democracy doesn’t protect the stupid from making stupid decisions. Democracy can only mean something if those practicing it have a respect for the rule of law and stability. This is not a chicken or the egg statement, Democracy arises from stability, not the other way around.
People need realize this and take a brief look at history in order to acknowledge these truths that I speak. We cannot expect to change thousands of years of depravity and violence by having a mantra of one man one vote. It takes economic stability, the creation of a large and robust middle class, and one or more political parties to exploit that middle class by promising smaller government less taxes, “fiscal responsibility” while all the while trying to warp the Constitution and spitting on the Principle of Checks and Balances.
Let us remember the very extreme qualifications that were mandated to vote in our own newly founded republic. Only landowning white males were able to cast their votes, which was kept in check by an electoral college for the President, and it was the State Legislatures that decided the members of the Senate.
For a more powerful, culturally diverse, morally questionable popular culture, Britney Spears was normal once, demanded that we provide all rights to all people, there would have been a backlash then as well. So it is with the stringent followers of Muhammad. Whereas in the West Suicide bombers are not the first last and most hailed method of showing ones displeasure.
This was what Bhutto represented to these small minded fearful and hate driven fanatics of a religion that keeps telling us it is peaceful. Pakistan is a country that does not have control over its own borders, and mush like Saudi Arabia sees any help from outside powers as being seen as weak and vulnerable to a coup.
Therefore an unstable country with a domestically unpopular President, a military that would rather attack the Hindus of India, rather than their, “Muslim” brethren in the tribal lands. We (were before Bush) one of the most economically stable, well respected, and morally conscience nations in thw world, and the prospect of a Woman as the head of our country still scares people. Of course she would be a target for these wackos.
Thus we see that Bhutto, who it seemed wished to be a martyr for Pakistani Democracy, carried on with risky unguarded areas to overthrow a man who is no where near the true danger, or negative influence upon the country she supposedly loved so dearly. For he followers, and her alleged letters blame Musharraf for the results of her behavior and poor judgment.
This leaves either two choices for the people of Pakistan to assume the mantle of leadership. The Pakistani Army, which is still disliked and international reservations would about, especially with all the pressure exerted on Musharraf to give up his uniform. Or the ones responsible for granting Bhutto her martyrdom, the Islamic Extremists.
What makes this so solidly important and extremely difficult to excuse the stupidity of Bhutto and her followers actions is the fact that such a scenario would provide the very people who DID attack us on that fateful day in September, with the arsenal to do untold horrors. Let me remind you it would be those same people protected by the Taliban, which Bhutto felt would bring stability to the region and allowed them to extend their power in Afghanistan while she was Prime Minister of Pakistan.
it is always a tragedy to someone when a person dies. When that person takes reckless chances and places themselves in harms way needlessly, it is considerably less so. Should those actions affect the safety of others, then it becomes a tragedy to people who had nothing to do with the initial incident. Should the worst come to pass in Pakistan, that blame should be at the feet of Benazir Bhutto - Because Somebody Had To Say It.
