Posted AT 6:55 AM EST on 28/12/07
An explosion in Rawalpindi echoes in Iowa
WASHINGTON — The slaying of Benazir Bhutto is reverberating through Washington and, more importantly, Iowa.
It has shredded one of the last remnants of George W. Bush's foreign policy, offering further proof that, while his troops are mired in the killing fields of Iraq, the real war on terror is being lost in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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