Re: Change of Heart - PMLN supporting Drone Strikes?
Whenever a terrorist’s leader gets killed by drone, I feel some revenge is taken for those ~50000 innocent Pakistanis these terrorists have killed. So, I remember the victims of these terrorists then feel happy that these victims got revenged and must be feeling satisfied other side of the life-line.
Yes, I am aware of the concept of sovereignty. Seems you are not.
It all depends on violation of country’s writ or border without consent of government, though if there is consent of government, then writ or border is not violated and thus no violation of sovereignty happens … regardless of government tell to the public or not. For instance:
When French were killing Saudi terrorists in Kabba take-over episode, then French were not violating Saudi Sovereignty as all was happening with consent of Saudi government … and even though Saudis did not tell (or disclosed to) their public that French killed terrorists in Kabba, and all happened with consent of their Saudi Government, still no sovereignty got violated.
As for Pakistan getting dictated by IMF, than that happens when a country is poor and need IMF to survive. On the other hand, Pakistanis want to get dictated by IMF, else they would not have thrown Musharraf out who got Pakistan out of IMF dictations (in 2004 after 32 years under IMF dictations) and voted in PPP who straight away went to IMF in 2009 and then NS who has again gone to IMF this year (2013). PPP and PMLN represents people and also love IMF dollars as well as IMF dictations, that means people who love these parties, also love IMF dollars and IMF dictations.
What can one do if piglets have infected house garden and few kids of the house started loving those piglets? To get rid of piglets one have to call specialist piglets control people, but to appease kids one may say that piglets control people came in on their own.
On the other hand, the reason you gave that public at large is not in favour of drones and that is the reason government is quite, then you are wrong. It is not public at large … but it is public with pro-taliban mentality who do not like drones and they are very small in number, but are dangerous, as they have tendency to become physical, do not care to stay civilised or law abiding, and can also do suicide to kill their unwary opponents.
No one is saying that technology is so effective that it would give complete control of government on terrorists. Only brutality and indiscriminate operation could do that … that means, heavily bomb terrorist and civilians in infected areas without worrying about casualties. Such type of indiscriminate killing can be done only by kharjee animals like Taliban and Al-Quida, but neither America nor Pakistan would like to do that … be the country or area is in Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan.
Pakistan also has various alliances with USA since early 1950s and those alliances are still valid. America has given more to Pakistan than any country, in terms of money, military hardware, civilian technology, scholarships, medical, educational and health related projects, free medicines, money for dams, and even contributed in agricultural revolution of 1960s with Mexican research ‘HYS’ for wheat and other agricultural goods … and many more. So what?
On the other hand, Taliban or Afghanistan has given nothing to Pakistan except drugs, crimes, smuggling, kidnapping, killing, car-jacking, robberies, fitna and fasad, and all sort of pain imaginable … that we should cry for them. If America kills our enemy, enemy who are killing Pakistanis in 1000s, then why we should we bother or be upset? … Rather, we should be happy.