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Just another CIA plot. Nothing more, nothing less.

What does her assassination mean? More of the same - instability, dictatorship, military rule. Let's not be too quick to blame al-Qaida or other terrorist organizations - who benefits the most from her death - Musharraf! Bottom-line, it is too bad it wasn't Bush and Cheney instead of her in that rally.

Even without a declared democracy, it's barbaric to kill another human being because they hold to views different from yours.  And it is cowardly: only a coward will recruit a young boy to do their killing for them, then sit back, and gloat.  What's at the root of this barbarism?  Fear--fear of change, fear of moving into the modern age with the west, fear of losing the pioneering spirit of living in caves and trying to hold off civilizing influences, fear of stepping up to adult responsibilities of fairness, humanity, and courage.

Professor Jentleson declared in your paper on December 28, that he did not want to call "the struggle" (referring, I presume, to the terror campaign by Islamic fundamentalists)as the war on terrorism. That is precisely what it is. It is a global war being fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, England, Spain, Phillipines, sub-Saharan Africa and now in South Asia and brewing in other locales. It is a shame that President Bush is so disliked that his occasional cogent nuggets of truth concerning world affairs fall on deaf(or worse) biased ears
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If one ever wondered what World War III would look like, this is probably it. I am no political scientist but I believe "the War" began with an eight year campaign (the terrorists were not so sophisticated at first) to knock down the World Trade Center and with attacks on US Embassies abroad. Let's call it what it is and hold on to our hats. We probably haven't seen anything yet. I just hope we don't think that crawling into bed and pulling the covers over our heads is going to protect us and others from continued assaults. In 1939 Mr. Chamberlain declared that there would be "peace in our time". I would love to know what his thoughts were when Germany invaded Poland in September of that year. What will future generations say about us if we don't call this threat what it is and meet it head on?

Radical, fundamentalist Islam is no different than any other radical religion - it's irrational, has no real respect for human life, and is incompatible with modern civilization. It's time the people of Pakistan to remove this element from their country once and for all...if they do not, assasinations will continue and the country will never be stable. It's also time for the United States to stop paying lip service to Democracy movements...we say we support Democracy and yet, behind closed doors, we often prefer dictators in the Middle East...I guess they are easier to control? How do we expect people to rise up and eliminate these radical elements if they do not believe the U.S. and the world will support them?