OrionHunter
ELITE MEMBER
Let me play the devils advocate here
Its not only about Americas double standards but more importantly, why is Pakistan fighting Americas war?
Why has the U.S suddenly turned the screws on Pakistan by blaming it of supporting the Taliban (Haqqani) because of the bombing of its embassy that injured dozens of U.S. soldiers and blamed it on the Haqqanis who they say is a veritable arm of the ISI? All this without a shred of evidence!
Now the question is: Who created the Taliban in Afghanistan and why? The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It worked in tandem with Pakistans ISI to create it.
"I warned the CIA that we were creating a monster," Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at a conference on Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia. "The CIA made a historic mistake in encouraging Islamic groups from all over the world to come to Afghanistan. The US provided $3 billion for building up these Islamic groups. They told me these people were fanatical, and the more fierce they were the more fiercely they would fight the Soviets. I warned them (CIA) that we were creating a monster."
Although the CIA claimed that the purpose was to attack military targets, mujahideen trained in these techniques, and using chemical and electronic-delay bomb timers supplied by the U.S., carried out numerous car bombings and assassination attacks in Kabul itself.
Well, it seems that suddenly America has woken up to this monster it had created in the first place as its interests are being badly hurt in Afghanistan. It now asks Pakistan to go after the Taliban (Haqqani/Mullah Omar) because these groups have turned against the U.S. Yes, against Americas supreme national and security interests. Never mind if it had used these very groups to undermine the then Soviet Unions national interests!
Does national interest apply only to America?
The point is why should the Pakistan Army go after the Haqqanis? They are not hurting Pakistan in any way. They are also Pakistans best bet for forming a Pakistan-friendly government in Kabul. It serves Pakistans national interest to do so.
If Pakistan launches an offensive against the Haqqanis, the backlash could be devastating, not only resulting in more bloodshed on Pakistani streets but also the loss of a bargaining chip in Afghanistan. But America thinks that its own national interest is more important than Pakistans which means that Pakistan should bend over backwards to fight not Pakistans but Americas war the so called war on terror! Are they not aware that once they withdraw from Afghanistan, Pakistan will be left to hold the baby? As it is, Pakistans hands are full, what with the TTP creating mayhem with dozens of innocent men, women and children being killed on the streets on an almost daily basis.
In other words, why is Pakistan fighting Americas war? Why is it allowing the use of its bases for drone attacks? Why is it allowing CIA a free run especially in the AFPAK region for humint to aid such attacks including operations by U.S. Special Forces? Is it because of the billions of dollars it is getting by way of aid? Or is it the fear of being bombed back into the stone age as Bush had once threatened?
If Pakistan had learned to stand on its own feet by emerging as an independent economic power in its own right instead of relying on American aid and largesse since 1947, America could not have browbeaten Pakistan to follow its diktats as it is being forced to do so at this critical juncture. It is blackmail by America and for Pakistan there seems to be no way out unless it has the courage to call Americas bluff.
Why has the U.S suddenly turned the screws on Pakistan by blaming it of supporting the Taliban (Haqqani) because of the bombing of its embassy that injured dozens of U.S. soldiers and blamed it on the Haqqanis who they say is a veritable arm of the ISI? All this without a shred of evidence!
Now the question is: Who created the Taliban in Afghanistan and why? The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It worked in tandem with Pakistans ISI to create it.
"I warned the CIA that we were creating a monster," Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at a conference on Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia. "The CIA made a historic mistake in encouraging Islamic groups from all over the world to come to Afghanistan. The US provided $3 billion for building up these Islamic groups. They told me these people were fanatical, and the more fierce they were the more fiercely they would fight the Soviets. I warned them (CIA) that we were creating a monster."
Although the CIA claimed that the purpose was to attack military targets, mujahideen trained in these techniques, and using chemical and electronic-delay bomb timers supplied by the U.S., carried out numerous car bombings and assassination attacks in Kabul itself.
Well, it seems that suddenly America has woken up to this monster it had created in the first place as its interests are being badly hurt in Afghanistan. It now asks Pakistan to go after the Taliban (Haqqani/Mullah Omar) because these groups have turned against the U.S. Yes, against Americas supreme national and security interests. Never mind if it had used these very groups to undermine the then Soviet Unions national interests!
Does national interest apply only to America?
The point is why should the Pakistan Army go after the Haqqanis? They are not hurting Pakistan in any way. They are also Pakistans best bet for forming a Pakistan-friendly government in Kabul. It serves Pakistans national interest to do so.
If Pakistan launches an offensive against the Haqqanis, the backlash could be devastating, not only resulting in more bloodshed on Pakistani streets but also the loss of a bargaining chip in Afghanistan. But America thinks that its own national interest is more important than Pakistans which means that Pakistan should bend over backwards to fight not Pakistans but Americas war the so called war on terror! Are they not aware that once they withdraw from Afghanistan, Pakistan will be left to hold the baby? As it is, Pakistans hands are full, what with the TTP creating mayhem with dozens of innocent men, women and children being killed on the streets on an almost daily basis.
In other words, why is Pakistan fighting Americas war? Why is it allowing the use of its bases for drone attacks? Why is it allowing CIA a free run especially in the AFPAK region for humint to aid such attacks including operations by U.S. Special Forces? Is it because of the billions of dollars it is getting by way of aid? Or is it the fear of being bombed back into the stone age as Bush had once threatened?
If Pakistan had learned to stand on its own feet by emerging as an independent economic power in its own right instead of relying on American aid and largesse since 1947, America could not have browbeaten Pakistan to follow its diktats as it is being forced to do so at this critical juncture. It is blackmail by America and for Pakistan there seems to be no way out unless it has the courage to call Americas bluff.