Democracy won't die with Benazir


	Democracy won't die with Benazir

sohil

1-20-2008 6:21 PM

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pakistan, democracy, military, bhutto, dictatorship, usa, south asia

sohil says:

Shashi Tharoor presents amazing insight (as always)...more at the source

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1-20-2008 11:24 PM

kkcapricorn

Where have you been? I worry about my clipper friends in dangerous parts of the world (politically and climate wise).
Good to see you back.

1-21-2008 1:31 AM

Deepti

welcome back Sohil....

thanks for a Shashi Tharoor clip...I love the guy!

1-23-2008 8:12 PM

sohil

Where have you been? I worry about my clipper friends in dangerous parts of the world (politically and climate wise).
Good to see you back.

I've been absolutely swamped with schoolwork and a personal crisis. The climate here has been...well crazy and the politics...well one of the richest states, yet can't even successfully fight a budget deficit without putting our arm in the "rainy day fund" and cuts in the Education sector.

You know, the same old, same old

welcome back Sohil....

thanks for a Shashi Tharoor clip...I love the guy!

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 Benazir
Bhutto has never looked this good. This week has seen the international press
posthumously apotheosising the telegenic Pakistani politician. But the
widely-expressed view that Benazir epitomised Pakistan’s hopes for
democracy, which have now perished with her, seriously overstates both what she
represented and the implications of her demise.
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 The former chief martial law
administrator had to doff his uniform - long overdue, since he was three years
past the retirement age for any general - and find a credible civilian partner
to help make a plausible case for democratisation. Benazir - well-spoken,
well-networked in Washington and London, and passionate in her avowals of
secular moderation, however self-serving - was the chosen one.
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whose appointed president duly dismissed her from office on plausible charges of
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