Re: Pakistan 'backed Haqqani attack on Kabul' - Mike Mullen
For once we need to stop looking at ching ching, we need to see what is good for us as nation, morals or money? We have seen money is not doing good, we continue to debate "what if US aid is stopped" every other day. If we decide to side with US 100% all we will get is another bucket of $$$ at the cost of nation's remaining morale, remaining trust in ourselves as nation/country. What we need is to take a stand on what we believe is right, yes we need to eliminate terrorists from amongst us but that is our job and we should be doing it without looking at aid from outside for doing it.
I am not against patriotism.. I am just against this definition of national interest by the military establishment.
If you want to rise up for the country.. start doing something to control the population growth. Raise your voice for the construction of Kalabagh dam which will bring an additional 2.8 million acres of land under cultivation, give Kareef water to an additional 2 million acres, will help you control the annual ritual of flood disaster, and give you 6000 MW of electricity at under Re 1/ per unit. Do something for the education in Pakistan.. earn foreign exchange for Pakistan through exports.. at least keep your money deposited in Pakistani banks from where it can be injected in to Pakistani productive channels..
I don't care what US is doing. Let the Afghanis go to hell after US leaves Afghanistan if they want to.. nobody can harm us if we are strong internally. We don't need any internal assets in Afghanistan at the expense of our people.
There is a global consensus against militant adventures against civilian populations by the terrorist. We get angry when there is a bomb blast in Marriott Islamabad, Moon Market Lahore or Shia procession in Karachi. Our people die, our economy suffers. Why we have to protect the militants of any type what-so-ever. Why every Osama, Baitullah, Fazlullah, Libby, Masood Azhar, Dawood Ibrahim, Haqqani, Quetta Shura, Lashkar this, Lashkar that is discovered from Pakistan. Why can't we clean all this filth from our country once for all.
If you want to do something for the country.. If you want to stand up for the country... raise your voice against this filth. If we don't clean our house.. believe me someone else will come and clean our house and they will not be sensitive to our innocent population. If we don't clean our house today.. they will use carpet bombing, daisy cutters, bunker busters to clean our house tomorrow. And if you think it is not possible.. wait till there is another terrorist attack on American soil with 300/400 casualties (God forbid)... In present situation the question is not if such attack will happen... it's when this will happen..
It's not about dollars and morals... it's about overconfident arrogance mixed up with stupidity.. and the first step towards sanity will be to accept that we have a huge religious militancy problem threatening not only us but the entire world... We don't need any Haqqanis to protect us after US leaves Afghanistan.. we need a strong vibrant economically viable Pakistan to safeguard us from any external threat..