Raja, I’m not sure why you find the release timing suspicious. Suskind’s books have made the Bush administration look horrible. This one included. Whose agenda, would you say, he would be serving? CNN was the first network to have a story on his book. The primary aspect of the story is Suskind’s claim that the Bush administration forged a document in order to go to war against Iraq.

I can understand how you might have that perspective from Pakistan. But it is not a perspective consistent with the reality here. Suskind’s fight is with the Bush administration. Benazir is, to a large extent, a character in his book. He uses her to highlight what he sees as the Bush administration’s failed opportunities to make real, positive change in the Muslim world. He sees Bhutto as someone flawed, but in the end, connected to her people.