Benazir, You Were Better Off In Exile...

Bummer! But Benazir's martyrdom might just lead to an explosion of pent up anger and frustration. It's too big a country to have only 1 little-popular leader, one who's walking the fine line between showing allegiance to the new world and enjoying support from religious extremists, lead till time indefinite. How long can he mock the judicial system, or democracy itself, and get away with it? Revolution won't be suppressible too long. Bush should figure, this time the General needs more than a pat on the back.

Her assassination might affect my rather harmless, ineffectual life too. Political instability (read civic unrest) is bound to spill over the 100s of kms of shared national boundaries. How it'll affect my life and to what magnitude is anyone's guess, but rest assured it'll be more than yet-another-chat-topic-over-evening-tea. I can only hope it won't be violent or disorienting in nature.

Benazir, in your death, you've probably done more than you could've living. God bless.