This is a hurried but I believe a cumulative reply to some members here but specifically to Big Daddy. Big Daddy you were civil and asked a question in a polite manner. I appreciate that. I am not calling you a neocon sympathizer, I wanna let you know that.
Yankees don’t give a damn about Pakistan, about lives and Pakistan’s national interest. We have an entire corpus of examples to what happens when a nation becomes a proxy to another usually when it is ruled by a corrupt dictatorial oligarchy. It is the yanks which have brought the instability in Afghanistan and Iraq which they can’t control. Musharraf sided with them yet still he gets blamed or rather Pakistan gets blamed in such an abusive shameless manner. .
On top of that, there was no organized terror infrastructure in tribal areas until the incompetency of Bush and Mush. The former for its failed policy which has disenchanted the world and the afghans, and Mush who instead of standing up for Pakistan’s interests and sovereignty sold the country with flamboyant rhetoric. Funny. It didn’t solve anything and instead brought in foreign fighters into Pakistan(chechens, uzbeks, arabs, afghans etc…) and then he still had a chance of going about with sagacity dealing with the sordid affairs but instead the one call troll of washington sent in the troops: who got defeated with casualties on both sides largely Pakistani..then he sent in more firepower and radicalised more people and made it into a righteous struggle by a people who had nothing to do with 9/11, Osama and so forth. After all, top Alqaeda operatives were captured in major cities in all 4 provinces of Pakistan.
And now i is sad to see these fascists, these cruel misguided, dictator loving fools advocate more mayhem, more murder, more disintegration of Pakistan. Bomb this, bomb that. Have not the yanks done so in Afghanistan? Rapid indiscriminate carpet bombing with moabs and daisy cutters? Have they squashed what they refer to as taliban but infact are Afghan peasants?
Musharraf’s and his supporters actions of barbarity and cruelty will solve nothing but inflame situation further. A people will rebel and must do so if they feel the government does not represent them or their priorities. So how about a little humility first. These murders in Balochistan and FATA have done nothing but pitted Pakistani citizens against Pakistani military. The military which supposed to protect them.
No wonder instead of pacifying, army has become the most hated entity in the country, and fires have spread into hitherto peaceful and secure back waters of the country Swat, Waziristan, Bajaur and so forth.
And I don’t blame the Americans, it was never their job to watch out for Pakistan’s interest, pakistani lives, Pakistani liberty. We can criticise Bush’s regime in its own right true, but they didn’t carry the burden for Paksitan. We know they were ignorant o the regional politics, history and culture just like they were in Iraq and Somalia and Vietnam. It was our job to educate them by hook and crook. If Nawaz was in power, sure everyone would agree hat Pakistan doesn’t need to Get bombed defending a fanatical spartan regime. But trust me, Even in the US they did not anticipate such whole hearted sell out disposition from Musharraf, and the result is stil nothing is ever enough and his masters are still unhappy.
And if it was Nawaz, he would’ve taken even a harder line with the US, and US would’ve understood given that
Pakistan has always been Ameriophile and doesn’t want confrontation.
Pakistan has genuine safety and security concerns in the region.
A skeptic conservative approach of Pakistan is much better than no cooperation at all
And Nawaz would’ve been conservative in his approach because he would’ve known that his name and his party’s name is at stake. That the sensitivity in the area and the bombing of Afghanistan would cause Pakistanis angst and anger and that Pakistan army is also a conservtive army. That many in the top brass of Pakistan’s intelligence and military are also very sensitive about the pending doom about to befell Pakistan.
Infact I dare say, given the flamboyant militant gnarls of this incompetent musharraf who was then COAS with his stupid misadventures in Kargil, and hot air dramas in Agra etc. would’ve been foremost in keeping a lust ful eye on the crown if Sharif were to become or appeared weak. And god forbid if any indication of AQ Khan being questioned by the AMericans had come about, this yantha himself would’ve engineered some coup or assasination.
That is right, mush is a coward. He adopted this mantra of enlightened moderation and related yelps national interest, extremism, pakistan first, giving mixed messages to everyone in and out of the nation, when he himself is this situation because he is weak, and he’s a coward and he lusts for power. And unfortunately other than his assasination there is no way to get rd of him, much less put a check on him.
But Pakistan’s a volunteer army (largely peasant) and it is disciplined and my salute to those poor jawans who refused and those pilots who refused. You are real heroes. you are real soldiers.