Benazir Bhutto's assassination puts Bush, Condi and the rest of the gang in a pickle. They were first among many foreign nations supporting the return of Bhutto in hopes of a political match of convenience between Bhutto and Pervez Musharraf, with Benazir Bhutto running for prime minister and Musharraf as civilian president, having resigned from the army.

Juan Cole puts it this way, "When the [Pakistan] supreme court seemed likely to interfere with his remaining president, he [Mushaffaf] arrested the justices, dismissed them, and replaced them with more pliant jurists. This move threatened to scuttle the Rice Plan, since Benazir now faced the prospect of serving a dictator as his grand vizier, rather than being a proper prime minister. 

"With Benazir's assassination, the Rice Plan is in tatters and Bush administration policy toward Pakistan and Afghanistan is tottering."

The Rice Plan: trying "to fix Musharraf's subsequent dwindling legitimacy by arranging for Benazir to return to Pakistan to run for prime minister, with Musharraf agreeing to resign from the military and become a civilian president."

The Bush administration is infamous both for its lack of an intelligent, historically aware, 21st century cohesive foreign policy and its last minute, incompetent, throwing-oil-on-fire, ad hoc foreign policy machinations. 

For example, as reported in the New York Times on Monday, "Early last week, six years after President Bush first began pouring billions of dollars into Pakistan’s military after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Pentagon completed a review that produced a classified plan to help the Pakistani military build an effective counterinsurgency force." 

While throwing billions at Pakistan's military, it took the Bushite administration six years to come up with a plan!  And the result? According to the article, "After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military effort against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, some American officials now acknowledge that there were too few controls over the money. The strategy to improve the Pakistani military, they said, needs to be completely revamped." 

Sounds like a repeat of the Bushite administration's spending for Bush's Iraq invasion and occupation. Billions spent with no oversight or accountability and disastrous results.

Pakistan seems to be another big mess with the delusional Bush administration involved up to their eyeballs.  Down with Tyranny agrees and writes, "A few things seem relatively clear:

(1) The country was already both a human disaster zone and a powder keg--a nuclear powder keg at that.

(2) The mess is even worse today.........

(3) It would be hard to imagine anyone less competent to have a positive influence on the situation than the babbling criminal psychopaths in charge of our foreign policy, who have done more to promote the cause of anti-American terrorism than Osama bin-Laden could ever have dreamed of..........."