This isn’t good news. Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated by a suicide bomber. I’m a little surprised that Musharraf himself has lasted this long, but I imagine he’s pretty fanatical about security. I also hope that he has the bombs under control.

Pakistan is probably the most intractable problem we have right now, and in many ways is at the heart of the war. And the notion that “non-interventionalism” will make it go away is hopeless naive.

[Update a few minutes later]

Some thoughts from Michael Ledeen:

The freedom of women in the world