Bhutto

A person sure cannot help but admire her courage,,,many attempts have been made on her life, and still she followed her path and kept on coming. She knew that any moment could be her last,,,yet she still demanded the rights of her people. I was just thinking, do we really have anyone running for president that has even half the testicles this woman showed? She not only talked the talk, but she walked the walk. We seem to get stuck with these limp d**k's,,that even an overdose of Viagra could not get hard when it counts, oh they talk and talk,,,but can any of them walk the walk when it really counts?

Murder is always bad, but Bhutto was no great person, unless you mean as a corrupt politician. Her corruption was in the millions, she was jailed then exiled. The Dessault bribery is well known. her support of the Taliban was well known. Her accepting payoffs from a certain precious metals dealer/smuggler was legendary in it's scope.

Guts to stand up to a potential assaasin is noble when you are noble. It is reckless when you have made so many enemies during your career, not just for your "political" work, but also for your corruption. Murder is wrong, and we should all agree that the assassinanion of any person, any world leader, Kim Il Jung and Castro included, is wrong, but don't shed too many tears for one of the most divisive and corrupt politicians of the 20th century.

Who could have possibly seen that coming?

Pakistan is a nuclear nation. Where did Pakistan get the technology?

Was it Clinton? No. Was it Jimmy Carter? No. Was it during the Reagan Administration? Yes.

Pakistan was made a nuclear nation by Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto, Benizer's father, Prime Minister, also assassinated, despite economic and political sanctions from the US.

Pakistan, unlike the US and Russia (and GB France and China) is not a member of the Nuclear Non-Priliferation Treaty. Pakistan, India and North Korea are in this club.

Ukraine, Belarus and Khazakstan have signed; not Pakistan. Isreal is in the club, too, as non-signers. Syria, which does not have nuclear weapons, is a party to the NPT.

Make no mistake. Pakistan is a full blown terrorist nation and is the world's biggest problem. North Korea is the 4 year old kid down the street compared to the grown up, psychotic, and very dangerous adult Pakistan just a few doors down.

Bhutto funded the Taliban in the hope the Taliban would preserve, or at least not molest, potential trade routes with emerging nations of central Asia.

And I don't accept the premise India has the bomb so Pakistan needs it too. Also, India has never been a threat to the US.

India developed the bomb, Pakistan stole it.

If you don't fear an unstable nuclear Pakistan, you are either very ignorant of world affairs, Pakistani, or both.

What is your tolerance for comments that question another's testicular virility?? :)

I am compelled to defend myself and the use if the English language.

If anyone has been insulted by my (proper) use of specific words, I am sorry. I did not mean to offend. In point of fact, I did not offend. Let us briefly examine a different way of looking at it.

The quite proper use of the word "ignorant" which MEANS "unknowledgeable", cannot be an insult. If I had said, for example, "you are very stupid about world affairs", that would have been an insult made on a  value judgement about a person which I do not (did not) have the right to make without further evidence, well, sir, that would be an insult. If I were to say "you are either very unknowledgeable about world affairs..." that would have surely appeased you.

I guess I must use not only correct English, but politically correct language. The proper use of words does not suffice.

If I play strirng music at halftime of a football game it doesn't mean I hate Native Americans.

To that end, I am, and shall always remain,

Literate

and then I'll be much more tolerant about your comments?

"I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to make comments, so long as I know who you are."

No thanks. Either the opinion is valid or not. It should not depend on who it is that opines.

I am fully aware this is not a public forum, this is a private, albeit very popular blog. Censor me if you want. It's your blog.

If you are up to your eyeballs in trolls that are anonymous and people who just want to be anonymous and you can't keep them straight, how you deal with that is a decision you make.

All the talking heads are saying the assassination could have a dramatic effect on the US primaries. They seem to think that Huckabee and Obama are now toast, and that it will help Guiliani and Clinton. Just wondering what you all think about that.

I felt badly watching President Bush make his statement about this,,,he had alot at stake on this lady and in Pak, thru all the tough times in the last few years,,this is the first time I actually saw a look in his eyes that almost seemed like he was ready to say enough is enough.  I dont know if this will detract from,,,,,or lend aid to any of the candidates,but  this murder was a serious blow to our policy, very serious,,,we staked billions, and alot of prestige to keep the current person in power to fight terror, and we were supporting Bhuto to come in and continue this fight.  About the only thing I can really conclude from this,is the terrorist won a big victory, it might just tear that country apart before it is over with.