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Benazir Bhutto: Beloved, But Sort Of In That "Marion Barry" Type Way

We had a long chat with Central and South Asia expert Josh Foust of the website Registan about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto this morning. "She's beloved by her clan and by the masses her people own but otherwise, a lot of people do not like her because of how she and her father stole billions of dollars from the country, bankrupted the entire country, and never really did anything save bow down before Bill Clinton," he said. So she was sort of like Marion Barry? "Yeah! only the bitch who set her up WAS ON THE INSIDE OF HER SOUL." After the jump Foust explains why people liked Bhutto, which is to say, because next to her fellow exiled leader Nawaz Sharif, military leader Pervez Musharraf and their Indian rivals, she looked pretty damn good. More »

11:30 AM on Thu Dec 27 2007
By Moe
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Latest by n/a: Too bad this conversation is long dead, because the whole anti-spirituality thing made me sad and I feel compelled to toss in my two cents. I'm one of those "spiritual not religious" people, and yet I've never been to more »