NRO has just posted a forum titled “After Bhutto” with some good analysis. Jonathan Foreman writes that Musharraf is likely to be “badly damaged at least in the short term,” and that “this could easily grow into widespread civil unrest, especially in the wake of her funeral tomorrow.” He holds out some hope that the assassination will have the effect of forcing the country’s political and military elite to take the threat from Islamic extremism more seriously–though one would think that the nine attempts on Musharraf’s life, the complete loss of control in the tribal areas, and the frequent attacks on Pakistani military installations would have already done as much. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross says this will give a boost to Nawaz Sharif, as he is, by default, now Pakistan’s top opposition figure. And Victor Davis Hanson writes:
More there from Roggio, Henry Sokolski, Stanley Kurtz, and others.
