The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, just seconds before she was assassinated leaving an election rally near the capital, Islamabad, on Thursday. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
There are at times some very brave people who believe their mission in life is so important that they put themselves in immediate danger. Do you think any of her security people could have kept her inside the armored car? No, I don't think so.
Ms. Bhutto's marriage to Asif Ali Zardari in 1987 was arranged by her mother, a fact that Ms. Bhutto has often said was easily explained, even for a modern, highly educated Pakistani woman. To be acceptable to the Pakistani public as a politician, she could not be a single woman, and what was the difference, she asked, between such a marriage and computer dating?
