Thursday December 27 2:34 PM EST: The murder of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan was a horrific event. The assassins had tried before and have now succeeded. Here we have one more dark day in the history of our world…breaking news, often presented with little context or background. As they say, "details are still coming in…
Benazir's father has been hung after a military coup years ago and now his daughter, herself an ousted Prime Minister, has had her life snuffed out.
Having met her when we were at Harvard together in the late seventies I took a special interest in following her career, and know I am personally affected as I write of this vicious death by a shooter and suicide bomber.
There are demonstrations and rioting underway in several Pakistani cities.
