Re: How Wonderful...
You can't have free representative democracy and feudalism coexist in a society. And judging by your posts of how you support a joker like BB, allah hi hafiz he pakistan ka!! The least you could do is support new ideas in Pakistan. Benazir is a like a scorpion [scorpions always biting.. you get the drift].
Feudalism is not a detractor of democracy in Pakistan, it is the lack of accountability and distribution of power: a distribution which makes the governing system of a country slow, perhaps tedious, boring, frustrating but keeps the ambition or delusion of man in check. I speak of independent judiciary, accountability and so forth. A check on arbitrary powers. If Feudalism were a detractor, England wouldn't have become the avant garde for modern representative form of government or the US south which was especially an agrarian Plantation society and the indulgent industrial/monetary north become the best experiment in elitist, representative democracy where the people could hope to work within institutions and a system flexible enough to allo for change without revolution. And upward mobility.
These military corrupt elite in Pakistan. These leeches are what? Are they not worse than the Feuds? Are they not worse than any doctrinal anathema that has shadowed Pakistan's soul darkening its avowed promises? Even industrial elites without competing checks on them are feudals. Like other efficient blanketing terms which do not delve properly into the nature of human dynamics, this "evil FEUDALISM" is just another nom de guerre.
And I don't support BB. To me she was self debilitating progressive. She had in her much of the qualities of the errant political Left without centeration. I didn't support her father (though respect him as a great leader) and his errant socialist policies. My courtesy and amiable words for her are out of deference to the dead. Also, she was an embodiment of so many things to so many people. Although I would still have preferred her over the present cadre of incompetent nincompoops even with all her sad pathetic adulation to the western tide of apathy housed in Bush's regime. But again if there were democracy in Pakistan and if she were a god fearing leader she never would've so shamelessly cajoled neocons, broker deal with this military yenta to get her corrupt charges dropped while more depressing issue were at hand and share power for the sake of having any power.
Imran Khan is the only leader that I consider second only to Jinnah in this country's history both in his disposition, charisma, politics and actions.