In the movie "V is for Vendetta" the police chief inspector replies to his co-worker who asks what's going to happen when all the Londoners congregate to see Westminster Abbey blown up..."What usually happens when people without guns stand up to people with guns". I suspect that the chaos is only beginning in Pakistan, a country we can not afford to have in chaos because unlike Iraq and Iran they actually have working nukes and delivery systems.
Angry protesters burned cars and shops into the night following the assassination Thursday of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
"It's all mayhem everywhere," Shehryar Ahmad, an investment banker in Karachi, told CNN by telephone Thursday night. "There's absolutely no order of any kind. No army on the streets. No curfew."
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In Sindh province, where Karachi is located, police said demonstrators had burned a dozen banks and set two train stations on fire, along with three trains. Since Thursday, 240 vehicles have been burned.
Because of the violence, paramilitary forces in Sindh were told to "shoot on site" anyone causing civil disturbances, a spokesman for the Pakistan Rangers said.
The U.S. policy of always supporting the strongman might be having its worst blowback ever. We thought that what happened in Iran thirty years ago was bad, I have a feeling that with Pakistan we ain't seen nothing yet.
Beloved Glorious Leader is always invoking the Terrarists™ to make his case against anyone who will stand up to him, but his enabling of Musharraf and his cronys by feeding them over Five Billion Dollars in no-strings attached aid has to count as one of the all-time foreign policy disasters in history. Now the waiting begins to see how long it will be before all the bad people we have been warned about take over Pakistan, funded in large part by the our tax dollars.
Thanks, you miserable failure... you've done it again.
