As Matthew says, there's really not much I can add, in terms of truly insightful punditry, to the news that Benazir Bhutto was assassinated this morning in Pakistan.
I'm not going to get quite as worked up as Matthew, and some of his commentators, get about this news. Bhutto was a useful symbol of the concept of democracy in a fairly undemocratic part of the world, especially relevant because Pakistan has, you know, The Bomb. But many commentators pointed out, when she first returned a few months back, that as an actual living person, she was not nearly as idealistic as we would have liked her to be, having been implicated in many scandals about corruption during her time in power.
So, while it's definitely a step back from the direction we'd like Pakistan to be going, I don't think it's the end of the world. We will, as we usually do, find a way to muddle through this most recent clusterfuck. It will probably mean dealing with Musharraf for another few years, but that probably would have been the case even before today's events.
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