Comments on: Questions after Benazir’s assasination http://musefree.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/questions-after-benazirs-assasination/ Musings, dreams, thoughtcrimes. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:28:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Carl! http://musefree.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/questions-after-benazirs-assasination/#comment-125 Carl! Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:15:27 +0000 http://musefree.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/questions-after-benazirs-assasination/#comment-125 Abihishek, I <a href="http://littlelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/28/bhutto-cluedo/" rel="nofollow">agree</a>, mostly... Things just seem to have gotten a <a href="http://littlelle.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/bhutto-cluedo-mk-ii/" rel="nofollow">little odd!</a> Carl! Abihishek,

I agree, mostly…

Things just seem to have gotten a little odd!

Carl!

]]> By: Abhishek http://musefree.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/questions-after-benazirs-assasination/#comment-124 Abhishek Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:15:12 +0000 http://musefree.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/questions-after-benazirs-assasination/#comment-124 @Carl! The way I see it, the polls were Mushrraf's last attempt to regain some legitimacy and ensure a power-sharing arrangment whereby he remains the president. As you know, the events of recent months has reduced his popularity immensely, and had it gone on that way, he would have been forced out, and perhaps worse. Benazir's assasination destroys this ploy of his to stay in control. Everyone is now overwhelmingly against him, and the extremists- who Benazir would have been opposed to if she won- are more powerful than ever. @Carl!
The way I see it, the polls were Mushrraf’s last attempt to regain some legitimacy and ensure a power-sharing arrangment whereby he remains the president. As you know, the events of recent months has reduced his popularity immensely, and had it gone on that way, he would have been forced out, and perhaps worse. Benazir’s assasination destroys this ploy of his to stay in control. Everyone is now overwhelmingly against him, and the extremists- who Benazir would have been opposed to if she won- are more powerful than ever.

]]> By: Carl! http://musefree.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/questions-after-benazirs-assasination/#comment-123 Carl! Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:51:50 +0000 http://musefree.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/questions-after-benazirs-assasination/#comment-123 well... 1. who else could beat him in a legitimate poll? 2. he gets to declare another state of emergency, or at least enforce one without officially announcing it. 3. he can blame Al-Qaeda and presumably co-opt international assistance in getting them the hell outta Pakistan. well…

1. who else could beat him in a legitimate poll?
2. he gets to declare another state of emergency, or at least enforce one without officially announcing it.
3. he can blame Al-Qaeda and presumably co-opt international assistance in getting them the hell outta Pakistan.

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