It would be disrespectful not to salute and bid adieu to Benazir Bhutto. I don't know what kind of leader she was — it looks like mixed reviews to me — but she certainly inspired the love and admiration of many people. And her beauty, the dark hair, the dark eyes, the heavy make-up typical of the elite classes of central/southwestern Asian Muslim women, was just breathtaking.
The Pakistani leadership has certainly learned something from the Bush playbook. If they repeat "Al Qaeda" enough, they can count on the media mindlessly parroting it, and it will become de facto truth. Shame the media can't figure out for itself and repeat, "Musharraf, Musharraf..."
May she rest in peace. And may God help the people of Pakistan, and all of us.
Photo: T. Mughal/European Pressphoto Agency, as published by The New York Times.
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