Dynasty politics and birthday gifts.

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I was hoping Digvijay Singh would take up the mantle of PM, being the right age, experience and a man who spoke freely, it would have been "fun" seeing him as PM.

ManMohan Singh the safe mannequin front for the Ganda Gandhi mafia " defense contracts" billionaire loot dynasty, is too old and weak....and Congress will have to replace him due to his age, and persona as the PM who presided over massive corruption in the tens of billions, whilst he smiled passively to the poverty stricken yet anxious hopeful nation of 1.2 billion people.

But, last Sunday Digvijay Singh wished the playboy of the party Rahul Gandhi, happy birthday and speculated with adulation what a wonderful PM he will make in that particular Indian way.

Whilst I am not 100% sure that Digvijay Singh would make a successful PM, I am 100% sure Playboy shallow "love a party" Rahul won't make a good PM. Even with the aid of staged ops, a life-times habit is very difficult to change at 41 and middle age.

The idea that a man gets his position in a party and thus country because of birth is simply absurd save for family run businesses in this modern day and age..........the Congress got rid of the 500 Maharajahs who became a byword for decadence in Western circles in 1948. And yet Congress is reinventing that practice in the 21st century in utter shame.........along with a British Raj colonial economy where you have a few Macaulay Brown Sahib elite educated at Oxbridge looting the country to Switzerland, whilst the majority of Indian "Am Admi" live in abject poverty..........still........ after 63 years of "Independence".

In a nation of 1.2 billion surely Congress can find credible leaders who are not managed by the International bankers in New York and London? If the challenges of the nation become greater, and more sophisticated as the country prospers.....then Congress WILL need credible home grown leaders who have not been recruited and brainwashed by the International bankers. Playboy Rahul spent far too long a time partying, playing around and pretending to study in the USA, and UK.

The leaders of India, and generally South Asia MUST be educated in their home countries exclusively even if the elite schools are from the colonial era;

Speak the desi native language first and foremost with clear automatic ease (The language you speak is the first language you think with.......Indian LEADERS SHOULD THINK LIKE Indians at a minimum)

....and should have spent the maximum amount of time in the respective South Asian countries which reduces the chances of recruitment by foreign intelligence agencies. The KGB used to and every other serious intelligence agencies recruit prospect leaders of every nation so that their nations agenda's can be furthered through these recruited agents (not astro-physics)......Rehman Malik, Zardari, Gilani, Kiyani, Suja Pasha work for the USA first and Pakistan second maybe ...thats why the country is in a utter mess.

That is the rule in the USA save Bill Clinton (the globalist former President of the USA), China and Russia........three serious powers.

India requires hard faced, hard nosed leaders, not MAN-CHILD playboy leaders groomed in the West.
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"Dear Rahul, give yourself a b’day gift, get Diggy to zip it"

By Anshul Chaturvedi at TOI blog.

"Rahul has got all those qualities and capabilities that are needed for a good Prime Minister", Singh, who has been working closely with the young leader, who turns 41 on June 19, told reporters… Describing Rahul as "quite mature", Singh said he has got the understanding of social and political issues. Besides being a member of the Gandhi family, he has the qualities of head and heart to strike rapport with people, he said. -

PTI report, June 19

Dear Rahul

Digvijay Singh has been stunning us to the point of incredulity the past week with his repeated assertions of undying loyalty, disguised as assessment reports certifying your immediate readiness to step into Dr Manmohan Singh’s chambers. If you skim through the stories and the responses of readers, you’d realize that he’s done more to draw sustained flak on to you than anything the opposition could have done. Since there’s no point addressing Diggy at the moment, given his state of mind, this small set of observations is addressed to you:

* Anybody halfway in a politically relevant position can “become PM”; it’s not as Herculean a task as it sounds, and acquiring the PM-ship has hardly been necessarily the same as achieving political primacy. Charan Singh became PM. Chandrashekhar became PM. Deve Gowda became PM, and yawned through most of it. IK Gujral became PM. Big difference it made to us – or to them. The chair is only as big as the stature of its occupant. So even if they thrust the PM-ship willy-nilly down your – and our – throats, as some sort of gift at some stage, it’ll hardly help give you greater stature.

* The biggest questions facing the political system have been questions of integrity. This is not to say that this is a Congress issue alone – there’s hardly any political organization that’s not part of the rot – but for someone who is apparently all set to run the country, it would be nice to know what you thought of the CWG management, or of the 2G spectrum scam, or of Adarsh. Or, for that matter, of Osama. The reality is that I have little clue; if I have to resort to Google to get an idea of your having said anything on the political issues of the day, well, that’s not how I’d like to know my PM-in-waiting. We’d like to know better what you think – not what the second rung of the Congress thinks of you. I mean, seriously, if they went on record to say you weren’t equipped to be PM, they wouldn’t be in the Congress, so what exactly are they proving by their assessment?

* Rita Bahuguna is making a joke of the issues facing farmers by deciding to make your birthday “farmer’s rights day”. I’d assume it would make you squirm as much as any outside observer. Please tell your party’s leaders that the more bizarre the levels to which they go to exalt you to score internal brownie points, the sillier they look – and make you look the same, since your silence can only be read as happy acceptance.

* The PM already has had enough damage to his reputation and standing; the man who was an exemplary Finance Minister keeps on being derided for being a stand-in for the family. How are we expected to take his functioning as PM with any degree of gravitas if every other day Congress leaders tell us that the only reason he’s not been asked to vacate yet is because you have graciously chosen not to step into 7 RCR. As it is, nobody outside the Congress says a good word for the man any more; at least give him his dignity within the system.

* There is a school of thought – you’d surely be aware of it – which says the whole exercise of letting things be the way they are the Centre as they currently are, is to pitch things for an internal regime change; to give the public a Rahul-led regime as relief from the quasi-paralysed Manmohan tenure. Each time people like Digvijay go public with such quasi-hysteric declarations, they merely strengthen that impression.

There’s no reason why anyone who can command a majority support in the Lok Sabha should not be Prime Minister, be it you or anyone else. Neither I nor anyone else need have a point of view on who can and who cannot be PM. But, please, let it not be handled as a running joke. Let the party celebrate your birthday; but let it not pitch to the country the spectacle of the prime ministership of India as a birthday present, all gift-wrapped, waiting for you to unwrap it. Seriously. Some things look better earned than gifted. Better to achieve greatness, even if a trifle late, than to have it thrust upon you - and that too, by Diggy Raja.

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I WISH RAHUL GANDHI A GREAT FUTURE, BUT NOT IN INDIAN POLITICS.......IT CAN'T BE A PLAYGROUND FOR DYNASTY PLAYBOYS.

Congress General Secretary Digvijay speaks up for his Party.

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Ramdev's fast a five-star satyagraha: Digvijay Singh

By Press Trust of India via Times of India.

Sharpening his attack on Baba Ramdev, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Saturday dubbed his indefinite fast as a "five-star satyagraha" sponsored by RSS and VHP to divert people's attention from "Sanghi terror".

(That would be a shame given I have endorsed Baba Ramdev. Religious bigotry kills many people in India, and discriminates against many millions more. However CORRUPTION by governments kills people also, though not as spectacularly as religious violence. It would be useful if an Indian Seymour Hersch could produce evidence that Anna Hazare, and Baba Ramdev had linkages with the RSS, Sangh Parivar and VHP...........I think the war against corruption in India has got to be tough, going beyond setting up yet another government body which is assigned to fight corruption, but ending up doing nothing {because the netas and babus manipulate it}. HOWEVER if the movement against corruption is covertly hijacked by the religious extremists, that is dangerous. Fighting corruption has to remain a secular ISSUE where OVERT RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM of the HINDU kind are not used which animates the wrong constituency in India)

"Now it is absolutely clear as to what are the credentials of Baba Ramdev. He is now openly supported by RSS BJP and VHP," Singh told reporters.

(Endorsement by the above parties does not mean necessarily that Baba Ramdev is fully paid up members of the above organization, unless clear evidence states otherwise, and he does not deny/disown the facts.

The above organizations may from time to time endorse wholesome things which are good for India....and it is not gospel truth that everything they support is necessarily evil and dangerous. The RSS, VHP and Sang Parivar may be stirred by patriotic fervor of the positive kind and may be fully indignant of the fact that India has so much black money abroad; for such a poor country...and may feel genuinely ashamed of the spate of corruption scandals that have affected India over the years.....this indignation, outrage and sense of shame is it self not a evil feeling, but normal for patriotic people)

He alleged that this campaign by VHP and RSS "is to undo the Constitution and Parliamentary democracy by encouraging people like Baba Ramdev to go on such fast."

(I don't think it goes that far. Indian Democracy has lasted for 63 years and has faced many turbulent challenges including from Congress itself under Indira Gandhi and the Emergency Rule 1975--77. However there is the complacency of corruption where a rotten system sets in when people with privilege think they are entitled to power and the riches of the state through nefarious means and Dynasty politics.........Why is Sonia and and her family billionaires when the family have never conducted business officially?.....because of kickbacks from defense procurements from the late 1960's.

On the other hand Baba Ramdev has to make sure that his actions do not lead to major destabilization of the state....where the GDP starts to shrink and people loose their jobs...where people start fighting and killing........that I think is NOT GOING to happen with the FAST, but may put pressure on the political system to do something about corruption finally)

Alleging that the campaign is "totally engineered by RSS and VHP to divert people's attention from Sanghi terror", Singh wondered "what kind of satyagraha is this of a baba who travels in a jet."

(Well in the 1905--1912 Satyagraha against the evil imperial design to divide Bengal along religious lines, there were no jets....ditto under Gandhi.....or Titters; Facebook etc.....there is absolutely nothing wrong in using modern communications system to SELL traditional age old ideas about the sanctity of India, and what needs to be addressed to improve the nation for the better of ALL......India is a big country geographically. Gandhi did walk a lot of the times in his agitation against the Raj, but I also think he did catch the train, and in Europe went on planes and Ships. Baba Ramdev is presumably not campaigning for ALL Indians to go back to the village, or is a Luddite......he is campaigning against corruption)

"He has got five-star tents put up with all facilities. And he is doing satyagraha on issues, which he doesn't know," Singh, who recently dubbed Baba Ramdev as being more of a businessman than a 'sanyasi', said.

(It is a utter falsity that ONLY CONGRESS LEADERS presume to know the problems of corruption in India.

The biggest crooks in Pakistan are the Pakistani military generals who work for the USA and a lot of the politicians.

Some of the biggest crooks in India are the politicians in charge of all the major parties and some babus.

INTENTION IS IMPORTANT.....before the problem of corruption is resolved....if Baba Ramdev see's corruption in India as a Congress Party problem mainly then he WILL FAIL in solving the problem.

However going back to the first point, one doesn't have to be a political insider within the state structure to understand the problem of corruption in India. Corruption in India is not a matter that MUST ONLY be understood and dealt with by political insiders within the state structure....if that were the case the problem would have been solved in the 1950's....and not allowed to linger 63 years into 2011)

"The whole satyagraha is not something what the satyagraha Mahatma Gandhi meant. This is five-star satyagraha for which crores of Rupees have been spent in creating air conditioned pandal," he said.

(Gandhi was fighting for Indian liberation, but I think it was Nehru who said in an autobiography that Gandhi was appalled by the corruption in his own party (source????). If he were alive today he may well have made his priority of fighting corruption in India his number one goal, and South Asian unity within SAARC his second goal)

Singh also took a dig at Anna Hazare who has announced plans to join Baba Ramdev in the fast tomorrow, saying, "I leave it to (his) judgement. Anna Hazare associates himself with RSS VHP, I don't know."

(It makes sense politically for Baba Ramdev and his fellow travelers to take their action together and speak with one voice)

The Congress leader, who has been speaking on the issue despite a virtual gag order, said that from day one everyone knows that "soldiers" of RSS, BJP and VHP are supporting Ramdev.

"So we all know who is sponsoring this and who he is trying to propagate," Singh said.

(I thought everybody in India with different social and political backgrounds, but mainly from the Middle class were campaigning against corruption in India)

The Congress leader also sought to project the Baba as regressive.

He said while the world is clamouring to learn English to compete in the global economy, the Baba wants medical and education in regional languages "and I want to ask him where he wants to take the country."

( It would be nice if India was less Anglophone and more Indian......with government institutions where suitable adopting HINDI as the oficial state language. However English is the global language, and India should not short cut herself on the benefits of this International language .......service CALL CENTERS etc)

On the estimate of black money, he said he failed to understand who has given the figure of Rs 4 lakh crore.

"BJP leader L K Advani is saying Rs 17 lakh crore. BJP is giving some other figure. Tell us, who gave you this figure. What is the original figure?," Digvijay asked.

( It is immaterial what is the exact figure for the back money in the 70 or so ofshore tax havens.....That is why its called Black Money. Illegally gotten money that avoids taxation, and is stashed away in foreign banks, off shore to avoid detection:

1. It is enough that the general public are aware that significant amounts of black money is abroad. They don't have to know the exact amount.

2. Governments take decisive steps to bring back the black money, beyond lip service.

3. The hole is plugged through which the system of black money is allowed to leave India.)

Singh also projected the yoga guru as an ignorant man. "Firstly Baba himself is not aware of what the issues are, what the system is, how the government functions. I pity BJP's mind, they have also run a government. Is it possible to resolve all points raised by Baba? I want to ask BJP's (Nitin) Gadkari."

(Baba Ramdev must clearly state that corruption in India crosses party lines, and is not a Congress problem only, AND HE is not campaigning against Congress only (UPA). Though Congress has been in power for most of the last 63 years of Independence, and because of this has a lot to answer for.

Again let me state that intention and habit are more important than knowledge, when combating corruption in India. SOME OF THE BIGGEST CROOKS IN SOUTH ASIA ARE VERY ARTICULATE, CLEVER....POWERFUL people who are well connected within the state structure and the private sector. They use their connections, and considerable KNOWLEDGE OF THE STATE to loot the country.....in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh.......POLITICIANS, BABUS, MILITARY PEOPLE......and powerful individuals in the private sector.

Therefore it is simply disingenuous for Singh sahab to say that Baba Ramdev doesn't understand what he is talking about........."He's out of his depth" narrative dismissive thing that parents condescendingly say to their little children. I believe Baba Ramdev does understand that there is a very BIG problem called "corruption in India", and that this big problem is creating additional problems for India economically and socially----thats the generals gist of it.....he and many others in India understand this at a basic level.

On the other hand it behooves people like Baba Ramdev to make himself fully aware of all the issues surrounding the big issue of "corruption in India" so that he can argue from the position of true knowledge.....this will give him POWER......rather than playing to the gallery through pure emotional and religious symbolism. There is nothing to stop him in surrounding himself with articulate experts on the field of corruption from INDIAN ACTIVISM, and from Indian academia.

Corruption in India is a BIG problem, and is a COMPLEX problem that crosses party lines......however such challenges must not be used to avoid addressing the problem.

In my view it might make more sense to create effective state institutions as a precursor to fighting corruption in India..........a lot of corruption in a state comes from weak state structures which do not do their jobs properly)

He said Advani can tell whether the Baba's demand to continue his hunger strike till the Rs 4 lakh crore money stashed abroad is returned was reasonable.

He also asked the Baba, who is agitating against black money, as to why he established an ashram in Mauritius, which is a known tax haven.

(Most Mauritians are of Indian origin from Bihar????, and Hindu......so having an ashram there is normal, as it is in Fiji, Singapore, Malaysia. Now on the other hand if Singh Sahib knows otherwise he should tell us so.

Now I endorse Digvijay Singh as the leader of the Congress Party (PM position) after geriatric ManMohan Singh steps aside, and which bypasses the Dynasty appointment of the Playboy from Italy.....which is corruption/nepotism of a kind in itself, and no les odious. India does not need Playboy leaders)

The Problem of Kashmir.

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. . . . An old article by Karan Thapar, about Kashmir and the problems within that state. Written by a good journalist who has come a long way since I first watched him on Sunday morning current affairs programs on Channel 4 in the mid-1980's.

Insurgency problems of center/regional relationships can be interpreted in two different ways within India. From the right, the problems are usually seen as security problems, which require a little bit more oomph within security, with a greater security presence, greater counter-insurgency operations, tougher international stance on security, and stricter regional and national anti-terrorist laws.

On the other side is the explanations and solutions offered by Karan Thapur which tries to look at the source of the problem, how it evolved, and how it can be solved through peaceful political means-------more sensitivity, understanding and love from the center.

As I understand it the security problems of Kashmir, the Punjab in the 1980's especially and Assam were the sole creations of the Central government in Delhi, and more specifically the Congress Party, AND more specifically related to the personality and governance style of Mrs Indira Gandhi. I am by no means endorsing it as a Congress created phenomenon of failure, the Congress Party after all has many good talented well intentioned people.

The problem begins with a lack of governance by the central government, with a strong perception by the dissenting locals that the central government does not care about the important concerns of the local masses, AND then on top of that a negative perception of actual and imagined interfere with local politics to the detriment and suppression of local interests, usually in a ham fisted rough shod way (East Pakistan/Bangladesh 1952----1971, being the classic example viz the Pakistan central government in Islamabad )

The Congress Party had more or less been in power for 40 uninterrupted years and it had become fat, lazy and corrupt by the end of that era (1947---1989). It lacked ideological conviction and zeal, and it sustained itself in power for the sake of power, and not governance. It was a quasi-dictatorship which manifested its true color in the Emergency of 1975--77.

The problem was compounded by the dynasty politics of the Congress Party where deference was given to candidates on the basis of family lineage rather then on true merit----an absurd situation in an aspiring secular modern country. This system resulted in the coronation of Indira Gandhi as head of Congress over many better candidates, and with her coronation she brought in her conceptions of family entitlements, she was after all the daughter of Nehru no less, greater political and economic corruption, making her family billionaires covertly, and her peculiar brand of politics, as a women in a mans world where she had to constantly prove herself against the better record of her fore fathers.

And of course she had her personal traits of being a control freak, who trusted very few people. Some one who enjoyed hosting international conventions in India, millions of them which ultimately had very little relevance for India, except for the fact that such events allowed her to pose, make presentations with speech making, and the approval of the Western chattering classes.

It is the insecure, control freak nature in her character which resulted in the disasters, (for India) in Kashmir, Assam, Punjab and of course Sri Lanka.

And Karan this is the second part of the explanation why with the exception of the Punjab,............. insurgency still continues in those and other parts of India, which you missed out on. Her actions ill-conceived and insensitive allowed the predatory powers around India to recruit people into insurgency groups against India, and its interests. Pakistan in Kashmir, especially from 1990, as one clear example. The Assam insurgency, the Maoist insurgency, indeed all modern insurgencies (Mr. B. Raman) require the backing of state entities without which they cannot sustain themselves against a modern state, especially the size of India. But it is the misgovernance of the central government first and foremost, which allows outside predatory powers to take advantage of such situations in the second place.

So what are the solutions?

• A mixture of love, sensitivity, respect and cutting of some slack from the center to those areas......saying "we trusts you"..."We have faith in you to govern yourself appropriately, and if you are not 100% perfect, its OK with us, your government won't be dismissed and central rule imposed.............we let the local people decide how effective you are in government, during state elections"
  
• Greater central funds for the states. 50/50 share of the government budget between the Central and local State government.
• Smaller states which are more realistically representative of local needs and more effectively governed. Why not 30-40 states eventually, within the overall Indian Union .
• Get rid of arbitrary and ham fisted security laws which harm innocent people, and fill the ranks of the insurgency movements. There are some allegations that the Indian military have been infiltrated by the RSS. What cannot be disputed is that the Indian police is one of the worst performing in the world, and one does not think that the Indian paramilitary is that much different. As to RAW there are many colorful things one could say about that organization especially in relation to Sri Lanka and the LTTE. So lets avoid POTA, TADA or any draconian laws which "energize" right-wing fruit cakes within the ranks of Indian security with communal agenda's, who are as with most of South Asia essentially corrupt post-colonial security forces who through their illegal actions fill the ranks of the insurgency.
• Lets reform the Indian security apparatus. Essentially it is a legacy of the British Raj, geared to fight for the British Raj...................the security institutions of India have quaint Anglofied names, which operate poorly compared to First World countries. Let us reform these organizations comprehensively, give them new uniforms, new equipment, better training, new Hindi names and better pay. The basic salary of a Indian police officer is 3,500 rupees? Obviously part-time crime must fulfill his basic needs.
  
• Let us seal the borders of Assam/Myanmar.........Assam/China..........Nepal/China.........Bhutan/China.............Kashmir/Pakistan........and so forth, building better communications with these states in terms of road and rail.

Logically these states should want to be part of and close to India, as the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages of not being so. It is only through the sheer stupidity, corruption and incompetence of the central government in Delhi which then alienate nations and peoples who wish to live in harmony within the Indian superstate, and the many opportunities it can offer to them.






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Time to Say Sorry.

Karan Thapar in the Hindustan Times. 2008.

Are we responsible for the distrust, even the alienation, Kashmiris feel when they consider their 60-year association with India? Have we betrayed promises, mistreated our fellow citizens, trampled on their rights and brutally shattered their dreams? Did our behaviour make the insurgency ‘inevitable’?

It may seem odd to ask these questions when Srinagar is enjoying its best summer since 1989 but, I would argue, this is one reason why they need to be asked all the more forcefully. Just because the situation seems more normal doesn’t mean the underlying grievances have disappeared. And if we don’t look for honest answers we could slide back towards the precipice.

In a book called My Kashmir, recently published in America, Wajahat Habibullah suggests the answer is yes. And Wajahat should know. A Kashmir-cadre IAS officer, he served twice as Divisional Commissioner Kashmir. Since 1970, when he started his career as a Sub-divisional Magistrate in Sopore, he’s witnessed how Kashmiris were treated by both the state and central governments.

“The first in a series of blunders”, Wajahat writes, was the dismissal of Sheikh Abdullah’s government and his subsequent arrest in 1953. The Sheikh was not just a hero to his people, he was also the main force behind the accession. He symbolised Kashmiri hopes as well as the link with India. Even a half century later, long after the Sheikh’s days of glory, Wajahat says “Kashmiris look upon his arrest as the first of many betrayals”.

However, it’s the eyewitness evidence that Wajahat presents that is the truly compelling part of his answer. During his first assignment Wajahat discovered that, unlike the rest of India, in Kashmir “the only active law was the Defence of India Rules, which allowed the police to keep their reasons for arrest and detention secret”. Though designed to tackle national security in wartime, in Kashmir they were used to enforce routine law and order. “Small wonder”, he concludes, “that a feeling of subjection had begun to permeate people’s minds”.

Whilst elsewhere in India elections provided a safety valve to ventilate anger, in Kashmir they became a means of denying freedom and subjecting the people to unrepresentative rule. Wajahat recounts the 4 steps by which elections were undermined. First, “reject the nomination of the opposition”. Second, impersonation during the voting “with the pliable presiding officer turning a blind eye to fake identification”. Third, “the ballot boxes could be stuffed with ballots”. And, fourth, “the winning and losing numbers were simply changed to favour the ‘preferred’ candidate”.

Two developments in the 1980s, Wajahat suggests, made the insurgency inevitable. The first was the midnight dismissal of the Farooq Abdullah government in 1984. At the heart of the problem was the clash between Farooq and Indira Gandhi. “She considered (him) a whippersnapper who owed her his position”. He sought to assert his independence, hosting opposition conclaves in Srinagar. Wajahat concludes: “The questionable manner of the Farooq government’s ouster confirmed Kashmiri suspicions that New Delhi would only allow supplicants to rule the state”.

The other was the election of 1987, rigged by the National Conference and Congress. Wajahat confirms that the voting in Amira Kadal was blatantly manipulated to ensure Yousuf Shah’s defeat, whilst his polling agents “were imprisoned without bail for months under the state’s draconian Public Safety Act”. Today, Yousuf Shah is better known as Syed Salahuddin, the head of the Hizbul Mujahideen and the Chief of the United Jehadi Council. Refusal to let the opposition win “drove a disaffected public into rebellion … convinced that freedom … was inaccessible”.

Twenty one years later, can harmony be restored? Wajahat suggests the happy summer of 2008 could be illusory: “It is doubtful whether harmony can ever be fully restored”. But if we want to try — and we must — Wajahat offers a small slender line of hope: “It had been clear to me from early on that resolution in Kashmir could come only with the restoration of Kashmiris’ dignity”.

With elections just three months away, isn’t it time to start? If the answer is yes, I suggest we begin with an apology. We owe them one.

Benazir Bhutto Bhen

If she becomes PM, it does not guarantee that the political problem's that Pakistan faces currently will go away, but rather they may increase, as those who incite the instability see a 'victory' and they press on for more changes------. Allowing Benazir into power sharing may be read as an act of weakness and desperation by the ruling elite. This is basic psychological warfare which the well seasoned hardened men in the military should be quite familiar with. Get your opponent into a headless chicken panic mode and get them to do silly things, like sharing power with Benazir. Does anyone seriously think that once she is in power she is going to quietly cooperate? That is their purpose isn't it?

There are many reasons for the current level of instability in Pakistan. Some say it is the culmination of 28 years of the wrong policies started by Zia ul Haq in 1979 (Islamic fundamentalism), which is only now bearing fruit decisively, with suicide bombings, kidnappings and other acts of sabotage carried out by men with once close links to the security establishment of Pakistan. Whilst others say it is due to military insensitivity viz FATA and the Chief Justice issue. The best policy is to hold stead fast, stand your ground and not retreat, unite and ride the storm. This cannot be treated like Kargil, where a few made decisions, whilst most of the services remained ignorant. We require the utmost coordination/cooperation between all the services at this juncture, and open discourse

The thing about Benazir Bhutto is that she is totally incapable of running Pakistan. The majority of the Pakistani people are conservative/traditional and she is not----She is of Shia background with a very cosmopolitan up bringing. She lives on her father’s name, her family back ground, and the sympathy gained from the death of her two brothers. She is a tragic comic figure. She lost her father tragically, her two brothers, and was estranged from her mother for a good while, and finally there is that husband of hers, Mr. Zardari, Mr. 10%. The husband of the future PM served 8 years in prison? How will that feel when she receives foreign dignitaries? Sorry I forgot that only in Pakistan people come out of prison and get recruited to the police force.

She has spent her 8 years in exile productively, improving her marketing skills, but sadly the skills that she really requires as Prime Minister, which is sound administrative/political skills to help her desperately poor country one fears is still lacking in her. She in the last 8 years has extensively marketed herself in Washington mainly, in addition to the extensive friends she already had in the UK elite circuit, and this would explain the current Washington enthusiasm for her. For the military to respond by sending one team of males for a week, will no way match her endeavours.

"It's hard to imagine someone better placed to speak about the current situation in Pakistan than Benazir Bhutto. She was born into one of Pakistan's leading political families. She was educated at both Harvard and Oxford. And -- full confession -- let me say that she and I met some -- at the risk of being less than gallant -- 30 years ago or so at Oxford. We would have met even earlier than that, at Harvard, except she got accepted and I did not. (Laughter.) And of such things history is made. (Laughter.) I'm almost over it, by the way. (Laughter.)" Richard Haas CFC President, introducing Benazir Bhutto, August 15th 2007.

She is attractive, of good family stock, and no doubt at a personal level she may be very impressionable/persuasive to red blooded Americans------but, as with Nawaz Sharif she has had her two innings, and each inning after the other were progressively worse. She now needs to quietly sit at the bench, and passively watch the match, and tend to her children and family. She has suffered enough tragedy, and would be indeed sad if she launched yet another political career, at the behest of poor advice from friends in the UK, and more recently the USA:

Bhutto progressively during two terms proved that she wholly lacked the necessary skills to govern the country effectively. Why should Pakistan at this critical juncture give her a third chance, which will only inflame the fundies, and further divide the country. Because Washington and London saab say so? Not a good enough sound reason for Pakistan. “US historian, Arthur Herman, in a letter published in the Wall Street Journal, described Bhutto as "One of the most incompetent leaders in the history of South Asia;" adding that she and other Pakistani elites hated Musarraf because he is "muhajir", born of Indian Muslims. Herman claims, "Although it was muhajirs who agitated for the creation of Pakistan in the first place, many native Pakistanis view them with contempt and treat them as third-class citizens."

Under Bhutto’s watch the nuclear program went out of control. That is a damn good reason not to have her back in power again.

Under Bhutto the Taliban/al-Qaeda enterprise was launched, with heavy persuasion from the Clinton administration. She states contradictorily on the one hand that she will fight the fundamentalists, and yet under her watch the primary fundamentalist threat in the region and world was hatched from 1994, during her tenure in office--recorded. Who is she fooling with her compliant, ‘let me please you saab, sound bites’ “The Taliban took power in Kabul in September 1996. It was during Bhutto's rule that the Taliban gained prominence in Afghanistan. She viewed the Taliban as a group that could stabilize Afghanistan and enable trade access to the Central Asian republics, according to author Stephen Coll.[11] He claims that her government provided military and financial support for the Taliban, even sending a small unit of the Pakistani army into Afghanistan”

Bhutto seeks permission from Washington saab and London saab to be PM. Which other policies of Pakistan will she defer to Washington and London in order to be PM. Just maybe she will move the PM office to London if she is elected.

Bhutto is the last person on earth suitable enough to be the PM of Pakistan at this critical juncture. Rather than being the ‘soothing balm’ of a women healing the nation, she given her past and her psychological make up will be lighting fires all over the country, creating death and mayhem where ever she goes.

Bhutto’s selfish desire and lust for power blinkers her common decency which states that for the sake of the country she put aside her personal goals, rather than rock the boat and incite her simple minded followers and all sundry.

She is a foreign backed agent provocateur, parachuted in to destabilize and damage the country.

She is corrupt looting billions of $ from the state coffers.

“The assets held by Bhutto and her husband have been scrutinized. The prosecutors have alleged that their Swiss bank accounts contain £740 million.[17] Zardari also bought a neo-Tudor mansion and estate worth over £4 million in Surrey, England, UK.[18][19] The Pakistani investigations have tied other overseas properties to Zardari's family. These include a $2.5 million manor in Normandy owned by Zardari's parents, who had modest assets at the time of his marriage”

She is an Oxbridge educated Zamindari from the British era.

She may be suffering from ego based personality disorder. She has over three decades suffered a lot of extreme personal trauma, and of course some people handle it better than others. Personally I think she went of the rails in the early 1990’s. Has she been examined by a psychiatrist? It would be an interesting report. The words unhinged delusional come to mind.

“"I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen (!!!!????). The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,2763,774840,00.html

Has anyone been following her English speeches in Pakistan.