Comments on: Waking to Bhutto Day http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/ Just another Pajamasmedia.com weblog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:02:54 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lem http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91221 Lem Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:16:02 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91221 charisa vajate de esa nube y vuelve a la realidad. We rather have a strong leader over there and everybody knows it. She would have been weak and thats the last thing we need now! charisa vajate de esa nube y vuelve a la realidad.

We rather have a strong leader over there and everybody knows it.

She would have been weak and thats the last thing we need now!

]]> By: chrisa798 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91220 chrisa798 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:16:42 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91220 Well done, WorkinStiff. Well done, WorkinStiff.

]]> By: chrisa798 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91219 chrisa798 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:14:54 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91219 Lem, Can you please document all the times that Rushdie has delivered political speeches in public in Pakistan over the last 10 years? I admire and support Rushdie, but your invoking his name (evidently extracted directly from your sunshine-less regions) to try to extricate yourself from losing the exchange on Bhutto is pretty weak. Lem,

Can you please document all the times that Rushdie has delivered political speeches in public in Pakistan over the last 10 years?

I admire and support Rushdie, but your invoking his name (evidently extracted directly from your sunshine-less regions) to try to extricate yourself from losing the exchange on Bhutto is pretty weak.

]]> By: Lem http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91218 Lem Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:09:48 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91218 Salman Rushdie has managed to remain alive for almost twenty years with a fatwa calling for his death. In my mind Rushdie is as much a 'hero' if not more for not accomodating the jihadist. Salman Rushdie has managed to remain alive for almost twenty years with a fatwa calling for his death.

In my mind Rushdie is as much a ‘hero’ if not more for not accomodating the jihadist.

]]> By: dryfuss http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91217 dryfuss Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:30:29 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91217 I remember another great women who wanted peace in the area, Golda Meier and here we are today so many years later with another wonderful women wanting only peace again for her country. Does it really make sense and stop the cause of democratic freedom to have eliminated her and those other victims in the area? Will it ever stop, I fear not. Lem, What was selfish was those who caused this ugly act, When you are the hopeful leader of people who want freedom and a democratic way of life you cannot run from the dangers confronting you. Her safty was not as it should have been and we will hear more about what went wrong regarding the protection. Ms Bhutto was neither selfish nor reckless, but a hero to those who followed her all these years. I remember another great women who wanted peace in the area, Golda Meier and here we are today so many years later with another wonderful women wanting only peace again for her country. Does it really make sense and stop the cause of democratic freedom to have eliminated her and those other victims
in the area? Will it ever stop, I fear not.

Lem, What was selfish was those who caused this ugly act, When you are the hopeful leader of people who want freedom and a
democratic way of life you cannot run from the dangers confronting you. Her safty was not as it should have been and we
will hear more about what went wrong regarding the protection.

Ms Bhutto was neither selfish nor reckless, but a hero to those who
followed her all these years.

]]> By: jrdroll http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91216 jrdroll Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:03:35 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91216 Roger I just saw the other Simon on Chris Mathews. He needs more than a fedora to help him maybe a cluebat. Happy New Year to you and yours Roger I just saw the other Simon on Chris Mathews.
He needs more than a fedora to help him maybe a cluebat. Happy New Year to you and yours

]]> By: WorkinStiff http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91215 WorkinStiff Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:34:55 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91215 The "We had to burn the village in order to save it",phrase was created out of whole cloth by a lefty reporter...No officer in Vietnam ever uttered such nonsense...It was just what the anti-war left wanted to hear so they took it and ran with it.. The “We had to burn the village in order to save it”,phrase was created out of whole cloth by a lefty reporter…No officer in Vietnam ever uttered such nonsense…It was just what the anti-war left wanted to hear so they took it and ran with it..

]]> By: Lem http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91214 Lem Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:35:46 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91214 It may not be a nice thing to say but... It was reckless and perhaps even selfish of her to put people in danger over and over and over again. It may not be a nice thing to say but…

It was reckless and perhaps even selfish of her to put people in danger over and over and over again.

]]> By: Jay Stranahan http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91213 Jay Stranahan Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:19:42 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91213 I am deeply grieved by this. My head and heart are in accord. They both feel very very grim about the act itself and what it presages. I first saw this woman interviewed when I was in high school, during the Reagan administration, and she struck me at once as a very smart tough cookie. Not pro-American or pro-Western, but pro-Pakistani -- an authentic patriot. I've liked her ever since, and been willing to give her the benefit of the doubt with regard to whatever pies her fingers may have dabbled in... I helped a Pakistani coworker pick up some furniture from a liquidation sale at a warehouse last year, and the guys doing the loading were also Pakistani. Some haggling took place, forty dollars changed hands, and Waqar's furniture jumped to the front of the line. We got out of there in twenty minutes instead of three hours. It made me angry to see this sort of tribal crap bleeding over into my own high-trust society... but I also understood it, and said nothing. I understood the same about Bhutto. What a horrific loss. What a foul, stupid way to usher in a new year. God rest her and keep her, and bring the sensible four-fifths of her nation some measure of surcease. And may the northern fifth be bombed flat -- God willing, or Whoever. I am deeply grieved by this. My head and heart are in accord. They both feel very very grim about the act itself and what it presages.

I first saw this woman interviewed when I was in high school, during the Reagan administration, and she struck me at once as a very smart tough cookie. Not pro-American or pro-Western, but pro-Pakistani — an authentic patriot. I’ve liked her ever since, and been willing to give her the benefit of the doubt with regard to whatever pies her fingers may have dabbled in…

I helped a Pakistani coworker pick up some furniture from a liquidation sale at a warehouse last year, and the guys doing the loading were also Pakistani. Some haggling took place, forty dollars changed hands, and Waqar’s furniture jumped to the front of the line. We got out of there in twenty minutes instead of three hours. It made me angry to see this sort of tribal crap bleeding over into my own high-trust society… but I also understood it, and said nothing. I understood the same about Bhutto.

What a horrific loss. What a foul, stupid way to usher in a new year. God rest her and keep her, and bring the sensible four-fifths of her nation some measure of surcease. And may the northern fifth be bombed flat — God willing, or Whoever.

]]> By: actor212 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91212 actor212 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:46:45 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/12/27/waking-to-bhutto-day/#comment-91212 <i>collateral damage is not considered - or even considered to be collateral. </i> I'm guessing you missed "We had to burn the village to save it"...grow up, Roger Hell. Maybe you'll get a script published one day. Again. Maybe. collateral damage is not considered – or even considered to be collateral.

I’m guessing you missed “We had to burn the village to save it”…grow up, Roger Hell. Maybe you’ll get a script published one day. Again. Maybe.

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