El asesinato de Benazir Bhutto

Algunas pocas palabras dedicadas al asunto, ya se está escribiendo mucho - tal vez demasiado, y demasiado deprisa - sobre el asesinato de Bhutto.

Se ha asesinado a un símbolo. Iñigo Sáenz de Ugarte - he llegado a sus palabras a través de Escolar.net - coloca a la figura de la líder paquistaní donde le corresponde.

Por otro lado, en los blogs de Commentary encuentro dos interesantes reflexiones:

Gordon K. Chang escribe una entrada de explícito título - Who Killed Bhutto? - en la que concluye:

A terrorist attack on Mrs. Bhutto would serve two crucial purposes for the Pakistani president—get his only serious rival out of the way and again buttress his support from concerned Western governments. Musharraf had motive and opportunity to kill Bhutto, and the crime fits a suspected M.O. At the very least, the United States should consider him a prime suspect.

In any event, he has let terrorists run free in his country and is primarily responsible for triggering the long-running constitutional and political crises that ultimately led to Mrs. Bhutto’s death. In a larger sense, therefore, he is responsible for yesterday’s tragedy. He is either a murderer or a failing autocrat. In either case, the United States should stop supporting him in his ongoing struggle against the Pakistani people.

(En su retrato de la recién desaparecida que publica hoy El País, Christopher Hitchens esboza una interpretación similar en este sentido).

Por otra parte, y desde un punto de vista estratégico, y asumiendo el previsible aumento de inestabilidad en la zona que aportará el atentado, Gabriel Schoenfeld formula en voz alta aquellas preguntas que todos nos hacemos sin llegar a expresarlas:

Where are Pakistan’s nuclear weapons stored, and could they be captured or destroyed by an outside country? Who guards them, and who guards the guards?

Coda: ¡Pobre Pakistán! ¡Pobres de nosotros!