Absence Speaks

And draws a loud and clear answer from that hammer to hypocrisy, Berard-Henri Levy, who brings it down hard on those unseen at a funeral in Sindh:

The best, the most beautiful way of responding would have been for Angela Merkel, George Bush, Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy to have gone immediately to Pakistan for her funeral.

We should have seen, standing behind Benazir's body, as they once did behind Anwar Al-Sadat's and Itzhak Rabin's, the largest possible number of government leaders and heads of state, to make the funeral a global demonstration on behalf of the values of democracy and peace.

We would have wanted the French president to interrupt his vacation to bid farewell to this great lady, now a martyr, on her last voyage. But no. The man who just rolled out the red carpet for Moammar Gadhafi contented himself with a short communiqué, not responding to those who had begged him to find a gesture or at least words which would honor this assassinated heroine. Beyond Mr. Sarkozy, the entire community of democratic heads of state has been astonishingly moderate, prudent, indeed pusillanimous.

Comments

[Henry Barth]

Bhutto wwsn't a head of state, just another chancer in a long line of candidates.

As I recall, Be-Nazir was chased out of Pakistan for "corruption," not for being pro-democracy...which in Pakistan doesn't mean a great deal.

Pakistan doesn't exist except as a cleptocracy and a cricket side.

[fussball]

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