Saturday, December 29, 2007

Martyred by a Martyr




We are told that extra security for Bhutto was ignored by Mushareff and therefore is considered complicit in the assassination. The question has to be asked, if Bhutto was America’s, and all of Democracy’s, ‘shining light’, how is it that Bush did not see to it that her protection was assured to the best of it’s capabilities to protect its interests in this nuclear armed country?

Bhutto was aware of the risks, after the last horrid attempt on her life, and despite the threats from all extreme Islamic radical groups and the military, one is led to believe that her knowledge and acceptance of these risks verges on a death wish or in our Christian fundamentalist terms, martyrdom.

Everyone knew full well the rage and destruction that would result in the successful attack on her life. Everyone knew the disastrous effect it would have globally in the “War on Terror” particularly timed to disrupt the national vote there in two weeks and the election year in The States. And above all everyone knows that when you mess with Pakistan that you are playing with nukes.

I can see at this moment Naomi Klein furiously writing a revised edition of her latest book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”.

Why martyrdom might work
Dec 29, 2007 04:30 AM
Mitch Potter
EUROPE BUREAU

Bush, Musharraf, and the Slaying of Bhutto