Bhutto returned to Pakistan for one purpose: to become a martyr. By allowing her to parade around out in the open, and inevitably get killed, masses of people can be unified against \"the terrorists\". 
 
Perhaps Musharraf has been hoping for the possibility of taking up the cause of Bhutto\'s followers by leading them in a fight against \"those who killed Bhutto\". With Pakistan being so entwined with Afghanistan, this is good for the US too. Even if Musharraf gets out of the equation, this creates a political climate that is fertile for US interests: \"Let\'s fight the terrorists!\". 
 
The problem is, US policy in that region is focussed on maintaining a perpetual war. It gives money to the contractors, and power to the politicians. It\'s evident that there is no will in Washington for our occupation of the Middle East to end, and as a matter of fact, it looks as though the US is interested in escalating the war. 
 
With the poppies in Afghanistan being the major source of funding for the insurgents, why is the US standing in the way of solving the poppy problem there? We implemented a poppy-for-medicine plan in Turkey in the \'70s and it worked like a charm. So, why has the Senlis Council been dismissed by the US? http://poppyformedicine.net/ 
 
Getting the US out of the way is the best solution for the problems in the Middle East. These people are not our dependents, and they will do much better in solving their own problems without our \"help\".

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