Posted AT 7:04 AM EDT on 28/12/07
Post-Bhutto, what future for the rest of us?
The sclerotic responses to yesterday's assassination weren't edifying.Same old war on terror, same old rhetoric. George W. Bush condemned it, in case anyone thought he might approve. Gordon Brown called it a sad day for democracy, but Benazir Bhutto didn't return to Pakistan to restore democracy; she went as a tool of U.S. policy, to enter a partnership with Pervez Musharraf in a deteriorating situation.
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