The assassination of Benazir Bhutto is unlikely to be lamented by the White House. Bush supports Musharraf, and Bhutto was an interference. There’s little doubt that Al Qaeda did kill her as they claim, but because she was taking political power away from them, not because she was pro-America. She wanted to run Pakistan again and the Islamists want to do that themselves, thank you, and you can be sure that Musharraf isn’t shedding any tears over this either, since he intends to keep the job.

Pakistan is a dictatorship that Bush supports while giving speeches about it being a democracy, to keep us all calm and pacified because of all those nukes. “The new estimate is that Pakistan has built from 25 to 100 atomic bombs and has the missiles and jet planes to deliver them.” Estimate as of the year 2000 in Wikipedia and other sources.

Pakistan is the number one target now of the Islamists because they want to get control of the nukes, which is why Bush keeps feeding money to Musharraf and his henchmen to combat Al Qaeda and the Taliban, which are both home-based in Pakistan. Unfortunately, Musharraf and his government are corrupt and much of the money goes into their own bank accounts. The only positive side to all this is that the Taliban is making less incursions into Afghanistan because of its new focus on Pakistan, but less money directed at the effort against them means less effectiveness in doing so.

The fact is that Pres. Musharraf has allowed Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other extremist groups to operate openly while telling us what we want to hear, because he’s made deals with them in order to stay in power. Bhuttos assassination may bring this to a head, and Bush may tell him point blank to either start cooperating with us full on, or we walk away and let him fall. Bush’s current policy there has failed.

Pakistan can no longer be ignored by the American people and as a Bush failure it’s become a serious embarassment to the Republican party in an election year.

Something dramatic must and will happen in Pakistan, whether it’s a takeover by the Islamists, an invasion by us or a war between them and India, or some other violent scenario. Their government is increasingly unstable. It’s hard to say whether this assassination has made it any worse than the divisions Bhutto was creating herself, but if, or more likely when, a war breaks out in that country, there’s going to be a major nuclear crisis. Those nukes are the biggest concern of all in the Middle East and will remain so until they are either removed or all Hell breaks loose.

Iran is on the back burner now and this is as good a reason as any why Bush backed off of Iran, as troubles in Pakistan have been steadily growing. Iran is trying to get nukes but Pakistan already has them. Therefor Pakistan is more likely the next theater of war.

A question that’s rapidly gaining volume because of this assassination is, When are we going to take the war to the terrorists? When are we going into Pakistans back country and bomb Hell out of it? When are we going to blow away entire tribal villages that house and support the Taliban? When are we going to stop caring about civilian casualties and get the job done and get it over with? Civilians are dying by the thousands now at the hands of those terrorists. If we wipe out their villages, we end the problem. War is Hell. Always has been.

You know, if we had stayed the hell out of Iraq in the first place and just focused on dealing with Afghanistan, Al Qaeda would never have been able to recruit all those America-hating muslims. Thank the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld Middle East policy manglers for the present massively escalating nightmare.

Unfortunately, hindsight gets us nowhere. Pray for foresight.

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