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Benazir Bhutto, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West.(Book review)
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Military Review
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July 1, 2008
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BENAZIR BHUTTO, RECONCILIATION: Islam, Democracy, and the West, Benazir Bhutto, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2008, 352 pages, $27.95.
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Benazir Bhutto's Reconciliation is a reasoned and impassioned plea for support for an open and democratic Pakistan. Bhutto's book, completed shortly before her death, places Pakistan squarely in the center of an Islamic world under siege from internal forces that seek to "exploit religion for their own political agenda." She aims to "trace the roots, causes, and potential solutions to the crisis within the Muslim world and the crisis between the Muslim world and the West." Bhutto argues forcefully that ...