Benazir Bhutto was not all she seemed. This article by Jacob Laksin in Front Page Mag points out that “Under her leadership, Pakistan in the 1990s became one the leading patrons of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Even as she promised to take her country into the 21st century, Bhutto secretly provided military and financial aid to Islamic guerillas whose ideology placed them closer to the middle ages. Publicly, she rejected any affiliation with the Taliban. Behind closed doors, she subscribed to the view that they were a pro-Pakistan force that could help stabilize Afghanistan.”

This is the same tack taken by Musharraf with the intent of deceiving the U.S. government.

Now Musharraf has announced that it was “terrorists” who killed Bhutto. In fact, the “proof” offered up by the Pak government consists only of unverified, unproven phone calls from unknown locations by people supposedly representing Al Qaeda.

Earlier today I came across a foreign website, now disappeared without a trace, that revealed that a person, whom it named, who was a direct threat to her was mysteriously released early from prison by the Pak Security force at the same time she returned from exile, and which noted that Pakistans security and intelligence forces are filled with Islamist fundamentalists. It also noted, as this site does, that everyone under the rank of brigadier has to be frisked twice and go through metal detectors to get onto the base where she was killed, yet the assassin was able to enter without any security check. Clearly, the assassin was deliberately allowed in.

According to this article in the WASHINGTON POST, by Newsweek senior editor Lally Weymouth, Bhutto “went back to Pakistan intending to work with Musharraf, but as she saw it he did not keep his end of the deal, which was to lift the ban that would have allowed her to serve a third term as Prime Minister. So I think the chance of them working together was slim. She had begun discussions with Nawaz Sharif and he had persuaded her to join him in an alliance.”

Now, with Bhutto dead, Sharif has withdrawn from the election, leaving only Musharraf in power with no opposition. In the past, Bhutto did play both ends against the middle as Musharraf has done. However, Mr. Weymouth feels that Bhutto was shocked “about the growing strength of the Taliban and al-Qaeda and she blamed Musharraf for that” and that she was genuinely pushing for democratic, secular reforms to counter the growing strength of the terrorists, as they had become a threat instead of the “pro Pakistan force” she once thought of them as.

This being so, there are several reasons for this attack: The Islamists got rid of Bhutto for becoming a threat to their plans; they wanted to destabilize Musharrafs government by pointing the finger of blame at him for getting rid of the competition; or that in fact Musharraf was behind it to get rid of the competition. Either way, this does destabilize Pakistan even more regardless of who is responsible, and the Islamists, the terrorists, stand to gain the most by it.

Now the question is, what does the United States do next? All this time, Bush has been propping up a regime that itself propped up terrorist organizations including the Taliban and Al Qaeda and making the global terrorist problem worse instead of better. If he won’t back off now from his policy of disaster, then the next best thing would be a takeover by the Islamists to force our government to change course and call Pakistan what it is, a terrorist state. Then maybe we would do something about that nest of vipers and its nuclear stockpile.

Every time we try to democratize a muslim nation, it becomes more radical and violent. If we left them alone and cut off from the West, they’d sink back into the sand of their own accord.

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