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The United States' response to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto has been, unsurprisingly, consistent: this attack by terrorists, while an affront to freedom, must not stop democratic reform in Pakistan, let the elections continue. This mirrors, almost verbatim, post-assassination utterances by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan Ambassador to the US Mahmud Ali Durrani. The unfortunate irony of these statements is that democracy never mattered much to Musharraf, or his American donors.
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