“Swat Valley’s Hidden Crisis”
This is in reference of a piece; authored by a renowned analyst, Morton Abramowitz and was published in world prestigious Paper, The Washington Post on Sep 1, 2009. The author has been assistant secretary of state for intelligence & research in the Reagan administration, ergo it matters what he utters. But, sorry to say that an intellectual of this caliber takes little pain to explain the reality. The author has breached all the moral values while maligning Pakistan Army. I quote only one sentence therefrom to show the hidden hostile intention of the author. He writes “according to aid workers interviews with Mingora residents, the biggest problem is the Pakistani army.” I myself hail from Mingora Swat and am President of District Bar Association comprising round about 400 Lawyers who come from every corner of District Swat and so they reflect the entire region in barroom on daily basis. And as such we, the Swat Lawyers are eyewitnesses of the entire phenomenon. And so we are more relevant to be relied upon. But I don’t know why the learned analyst has avoided the best evidence?
Actually all the enemies of Pakistan know well that due to incompetence and effeminacy of our political lot, whether they are secular or clerical, Pakistan Army always plugs the vacuum timely and as such the enemies find it most difficult to defeat the Skeleton of Pakistan viz Pakistan Army and hence they get annoyed.
What has been accomplished by Pakistan Army in the most intricate conditions in District Swat and Malakand Division is amazing and prideful for the nation. They have rescued Pakistan from the most horrible jaws of the brutal enemy. The world has realized now what has been the outcome of US & NATO forces brutal intervention in Iraq & Afghanistan in spite of their colossal means and fully mechanized war machine. The pot must not call the kettle black!!!
The shocking intention of the author and his ilk can also be confirmed from the fact that when Pak Army had not yet got penetration in our enemy here in Swat and the region, they were either silent or were blaming Pak Army and other Pakistan’s agencies for being backing covertly militants. And now when the Pakistan Army has got on our enemy’s throat Morton Abramowitz and his sorts are blaming Pakistan Army for violation of human rights - and both of these findings prove nothing but their protracted extremism in their analyses of things and hidden crisis in their minds!!!
The “brutal intervention” in Afghanistan came after Afghanistan intervened in the US. What did they expect? Flowers in response to 9/11?
You are overestimating the US/NATO effort in Afghanistan. The US is fighting a limited war there. The US has almost as many troops in South Korea as in Afghanistan. You have not seen the “fully mechanized war machine” of the US in Afghanistan and the NATO nations are a joke in their contributions there. Even now when there is talk of increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan it is of a small number, usually 10,000 more. No one is talking about sending 300,000 troops and launching daily air strikes on Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. I just wanted to correct some misinformation about the Afghanistan war.
I personally think what the US in doing in Afghanistan is dumb. Why fight a war with one hand tied? Either leave Afghanistan or make a full effort by sending a massive number of troops, aggressively bombing the Taliban and Al-Qaeda and finish the job. The current policy of a limited war with limited means is clearly a failure as the resurgence of the Taliban shows.
The Iraq invasion was a disgrace. I cannot and will not defend that. It was the biggest foreign policy mistake in US history and will be seen as such by historians. George W. Bush was ranked 36th among the US’s 42 former presidents in a recent survey of historians and he was second to last in foreign relations (the only guy he beat was by default since President Harrison died after 1 month in office and had no foreign policy). C-SPAN Survey of Presidential Leadership - International Relations - C-SPAN
Regarding Morton Abramowitz, who cares? He is a blip on the American political radar screen. He is the only person I have heard whine about the Pakistani military’s Swat operations. I don’t know of any senator, any administration official or anyone else of significance who has criticized it. The only ones who have commented have supported it.