[Marxism] The Tragedy of Pakistan Continues

[Dbachmozart@xxxxxxx]

As always, there was even an underside to  Benazir's vaunted defiance of the 
Islamic radicals; her own regimes had been  instrumental in the rise of the 
Afghan Taliban and given to quiet accommodation  and sharing of spoils with the 
internal Pakistani zealots.  
She was dead only days when it became clear that  the tragedy of her last 
thirty years would continue. In a U.S. presidential  campaign blaring change, 
no 
candidate dares to change this most disastrous, most  bipartisan, most bigoted 
of foreign policies, in which America's meddling was so  malignant and its 
ultimate control so illusory. In Pakistan, the old politics go  on, including 
the security of nuclear arms. None of the ruling triad wants that  horror 
unleashed. The losers, as always, will be the more than hundred million  
Pakistanis 
in abject want or on the edge, the historic disgrace of the world's  longest 
running military despotism, and of America's most generous and tragic  
patronage. 
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