Recently in Pakistan Category

by shep

This is the second of two announcements in as many days from “US Officials” about how they supplied intelligence to Benazir Bhutto (small wonder she was killed) about threats to her life. In this one they helpfully add their professional judgment that, “key suggestions appear to have gone unheeded.”

"We gave them a steady stream of intelligence," one official said.

"it's up to (the recipient) how they want to take action."

Translation: “It ain’t Musharraf’s fault (even if he ordered the hit), that bitch might as well shot herself.”

Much like the ridiculous official Pakistani (re) statements describing the cause of Bhutto’s death, US propaganda has become so transparently mendacious that its only effect is to further diminish the propagandists. One wonders whether the current collaboration of administration fascists and Pakistani thugs can accomplish anything but more hell on earth.

[Cross-posted at Dispassionate Liberal]

You know, this is going to sound crazy but when I read the story about the escaped tiger at the San Francisco zoo, I had a sense of foreboding. Coming as it did -- on Christmas day -- it seemed a stark reminder that the bottom can fall out at any time.

Now Benazir Bhutto is dead in Rawalpindi in an act of carnage so sudden and brutal that it shocks the conscience.

And no matter what I do, I can't get the foreshadowing image of that rampaging tiger out of my mind. It is simply...too much. If this were something that had been described in a novel, or shown in a movie, you'd walk away thinking, "Nah. Too unbelievable."

And yet here we are.

P.S. All the "Top stories of 2007" articles have already been written. But surely this one would have to be at, or near, the very top. We can only watch in anxious anticipation as to what might happen in the coming year.