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It’s worth remembering that Benazir Bhutto is a corrupt beneficiary of nepotism who ran an already screwed up country into the ground. Not that she or her entourage deserve a hail of shrapnel or anything, but let’s just go easy on the idea that the attack on her was fueled solely by Teh!Evilest!Evar!New!Caliphate!Jihadis!
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. But Bhutto’s no heroine of feminism. Please.
Quite – she’s just another one of the international entitled that seem to know neither national boundaries nor boundaries to greed. When she was last in power it was alleged by her political opponents :
“…politicians like Ms. Bhutto have presided over a system in which government programs have been looted, government contracts milked for kickbacks, and every opportunity taken to secure personal comforts. He gave examples that included the $25 million a year spent on maintaining residences in Islamabad for the President and the Prime Minister, the 85 Mercedes-Benz limousines assigned to the Prime Minister’s staff, and $10 million in taxpayers’ money spent every year on overseas medical care for high-ranking politicians and their families. “
The Radcliffe and Oxford-educated Bhutto (known as ‘Pinkie’ to her family; her husband is known as “Mr Ten Per Cent’), who’s spent little time actually in Pakistan except for the brief periods that she or her father were in power, also had herself acclaimed Leader For Life by her party, the PPP. No democrat she.
Her attempted return to Pakistan politics is in actuality a western-backed attempt to install another friendly puppet as a bulwark against Islamism over the head of the previous puppet, the failure Musharraf. She’s a good friend of the United States: when last in power she even addressed a joint session of Congress.
Musharraf is a complete and utter wanker, true, but Pakistan is still an allegedly democratic state and here we are interfering, yet again.
Iraq, Afhanistan, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan…We just can’t stop stirring it up, can we?
