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Over-Estimating Bhutto

By The Daily Dish
Dec 28 2007, 4:23 AM ET

Thomas Barnett counsels against believing that the assassination changes that much:

Bhutto, despite our mythologizing of her past rule and future potential, was not going to fix Pakistan. As such, her passing matters only to the extent it creates short-term instability. But, in the end, I don't expect to change much about the correlation of forces right now in Pakistan.



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