It’s hard to tell when all the news will come to light regarding the details of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday. Certainly, from the standpoint of someone who has only secondary access to the horrible events, I (most of us, really) am in no position to analyze what happened, who was involved, what the future holds, etc. If you’ve turned on a television today, you’ll know that many other people more qualified than most of us have been doing that all day.
It is crucial, I’m sure, for someone to step in immediately to bring stability to the country in the midst of the chaos surrounding this woman’s tragic death. In case you’ve missed thinking about this so far today, let me be the first to point it out to you: We are talking about a country tossed between military dictatorship and terrorism which just happens to have nuclear weapons. Oh, and they have an ongoing warring relationship with their neighbors, India, who also have nuclear weapons.
Not to push the point, but this seems to me at least as volatile and dangerous as the U.S. v. U.S.S.R. face-offs of the old Cold War Days.
May the world work together at this frightening time to keep the insanity at bay.
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