{"id":4063,"date":"2008-01-08T22:51:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T05:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/08\/bhuttos-incompetence\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T22:51:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T05:51:02","slug":"bhutto%e2%80%99s-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4063","title":{"rendered":"Bhutto\u2019s Incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<p>Ross, on Moveable Feast, <a href=\"http:\/\/howard53545.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/01\/bhuttos-true-colors-another-pompous-elite\/\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Despite the prevailing opinion, Benazir\u2019s death may offer new hope for democratic values: rights, the rule of law, and law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Benazir Bhutto gave Pakistan false hope of these enlightened values two decades ago. In a shocking display of ineptitude, Pakistan\u2019s first woman prime minister failed to pass a single piece of major legislation during her first 20 months in power. According to Amnesty International, Bhutto\u2019s particular brand of democracy while in office &#8211; in the words of historian William Dalrymple, \u201celective feudalism\u201d &#8211; brought some of the world\u2019s highest numbers of extrajudicial killings, torture, and custodial deaths. Transparency International characterized hers as one of the world\u2019s most corrupt governments.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/categories\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/580\/\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/tags\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/580\/\" \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/580\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/580\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/580\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/580\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/580\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/580\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/580\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/580\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/580\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/580\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogbullet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=743885&amp;post=580&amp;subd=blogbullet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross, on Moveable Feast, writes:<br \/>\nDespite the prevailing opinion, Benazir\u2019s death may offer new hope for democratic values: rights, the rule of law, and law enforcement.<br \/>\nBenazir Bhutto gave Pakistan false hope of these enlightened values two decades ago. In a shocking display of ineptitude, Pakistan\u2019s first woman prime minister failed to pass a single piece of [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4063\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}