Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Thanks for the perspectives.
I wonder what the political options are now for a post-Musharaff Pakistan.. Steyn seems to be saying the real options are dire and limited, and he’s probably right.
Also wonder what the Indian take on all this is. You would think this would bring us closer and closer to India.
Hitchens and Steyn- the clever atheist and the class clown..both good pieces. I wonder if they wrote them in advance?
Want the truth? Here it is:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12282007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_bhutto_assassination__not_what_she_s_912265.htm
A genuinely unnatural state.
b2
Shakespear with nukes… there’s a comforting thought.
Flatlander,
I wondered about the Indians myself yesterday. Will they take advantage of the unrest in Pakistan to start a shooting war? Or, will they stay the heck out of it? I hope they stay out of it. If they get involved things could turn ugly really quick… Of course, they’re nothing like pretty right now.
Jim C
Dunno Jim, but you can bet they are dusting off all the contingency plans right now. Imagine if a Saudi-backed fundamentalist took over the country. It could happen. If it’s a democratic election it’s probable.
Quite the kettle of fish. Depending on the writer Bhutto was either a valiant democratic reformer born to save Pakistan or a ruthless, yet quite charming, Paki thug who was only interested in money and power.
And what are we to make of Pakistan where many more people admire bin Laden than Bhutto or Musharraf? A country filled with Islamists where only the army and Pervez stand between the extremists and a nuclear armed Islamist state.
AARRGHH!! Shakespearian indeed.