December 28, 2007

Benazir "Mandala" Bhutto: Blood Sacrifice of the New York Times

If the commentary spewed today about the murder of Benazir Bhutto was loaded onto a freight train, you'd be stopped at the signal for SIX hours watching it trundle by. God knows I have. All in all a numbing exegesis of the obvious.

But if you want to get it all in one penetrating bit of analysis, you'd be reading Unqualified Reservations: Benazir Bhutto: mob hit in Pakistan

You are on notice by the second graph,

"Memo to Washington: this is what happens when you let the Times run your foreign policy."

From that point on you'll see the power dynamics of Pakistan more lucidly than a 15 day "Pity-Poor-Pakistan" telethon:

Political power in Pakistan is shared among a huge variety of parties, gangs, cliques, alliances, mafias, liberation fronts, Islamic sects, human-rights groups, military units, and the like. All of them have one goal: to maximize their capture of the economic production of the Indus River basin. You may think of this area as a shithole, and it would be going too far to say that you are utterly wrong, but it is also a traditionally prosperous and influential region.

Then a brief tour of the three factions that are contesting ownership of this little plum followed by a brief estimate of the Bush/Washington/ Times axis and hand in the whole sorry mess.

And wrapping up with a tip-toe through the Times tulips that brought this all about.

All in all, a tour de force from an unusually gifted mind. Recommended: HERE.

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