With intense pressure from the Americans, various European governments were forced to accept the claim that an Al Qaeda terrorist plot was brewing inside their borders. The only source of this information -as usual- was the US government. Strangely enough neither the European, nor the Pakistani governments (from whose country it was claimed these terrorists would be originating), could independently support such a claim. Yet the Europeans -possibly grumbling a bit in the process- once again submitted to their mafia don across the Atlantic. It's like a movie shoot on the hundredth take. The bad Muslims are coming ... run for the hills!
Meanwhile, it's becoming clearer to all thinking and at this stage even unthinking people that this was most likely a fraud. The Obama Administration was trying to minimize its increasing level of brutality and murder in the Af-Pak, caused mostly by its dramatic escalation of almost daily drone attacks into Pakistan. And of course the “terror scare,” now a perfected tactic of the US government well into the 9th year of its war OF terror, will be a great justification for the increase in the killing fields in our part of the world.
Because the Pakistanis who stopped the vital NATO supply lines recently, and a Karzai government overly keen (according to the Americans) on making a deal with the Taliban in order to stop the violence, should know that if they get in the world’s biggest warlord’s way in its project of maintaining and expanding its military-corporate empire, they will be crushed. Fortunately, the emperor’s clothes are being forcibly pulled off, and its limits at exerting its naked power are being checked by a formidable resistance on the ground.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
There's no such thing as a free lunch!
So the US and NATO officials finally had to apologize to the Pakistanis for the deaths of Pakistani frontier troops by US helicopter gunships. While it is quite a feat to get these global hegemons to apologize about anything, least of all their own brutal and deadly conduct, it’s important to note why they did so. As the old saying goes, ' there is no such thing as a free lunch'. They did so because the Pakistani establishment halted the crucial supply lines going from Pakistan to Afghanistan – which comprise 70% of all of US-NATO supplies in Afghanistan. The Pakistani establishment was thus killing the lifeline of the Western occupation of Afghanistan.
And while the US-NATO continue to drag along their vicious and asinine occupation, and unashamedly expand their war into Pakistan, it’s important to see the visible signs of weaknesses where they exist. For most of the post-World War II era, it would’ve been impossible for the US political and military leadership to make such apologies, to be so deferential to its client and mercenary states/armies throughout the (third) world. The US is getting weaker and weaker. It continues, even under the “peace candidate” Obama, to rely on military force to resolve its increasing global economic and geo-strategic decline.
Sadly for them, no matter how superior the US firepower from 50,000 feet may be, at the end of the day, you need boots on the ground to control the natives. And for the most part, those US and NATO boots are being forced to regret ever leaving their homelands for these societies that increasingly detest their presence, and are fiercely resisting it.
Pakistani intelligence agencies will as usual be the fall guy for the massive incompetence and arrogance of the Firangi. And their imperial project will suffer because of it.
And while the US-NATO continue to drag along their vicious and asinine occupation, and unashamedly expand their war into Pakistan, it’s important to see the visible signs of weaknesses where they exist. For most of the post-World War II era, it would’ve been impossible for the US political and military leadership to make such apologies, to be so deferential to its client and mercenary states/armies throughout the (third) world. The US is getting weaker and weaker. It continues, even under the “peace candidate” Obama, to rely on military force to resolve its increasing global economic and geo-strategic decline.
Sadly for them, no matter how superior the US firepower from 50,000 feet may be, at the end of the day, you need boots on the ground to control the natives. And for the most part, those US and NATO boots are being forced to regret ever leaving their homelands for these societies that increasingly detest their presence, and are fiercely resisting it.
Pakistani intelligence agencies will as usual be the fall guy for the massive incompetence and arrogance of the Firangi. And their imperial project will suffer because of it.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Small Victory Big Loss
My best friend signed me up for this blog a long time ago and I have been waiting ever since for a moment of inspiration, a sign or someone to write for me...
Today, however, struck me as a good day to start because often there is just bad news, but yesterday in Pakistan a small victory and a huge loss came back to back and gave me the sign I needed to get blogging.
US-NATO forces have been breaching the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan for months and last week they even killed 3 Pakistani military personel. The Pakistani government as usual when dealing with its Western overlords did sweet nothing,until, according to word on the street, the military pressured the government into acting. Subsequently, US supply routes to bases in Afghanistan have been closed.
A small victory indeed but for ordinary Pakistanis enough hope to realis\ze that it’s still possible to show the US the middle finger when it goes too far – as indeed it has in its relationship with Pakistan since at least the 1950s.
As for the loss... there are many liberals and progressives who sit in their homes, in their elite areas and write about 'the people' and what they lack., There are very few of these activists who actually live among the people and challenge their perceptions yet remain their brothers in religion. It is with the utmost sadness that Pakistan bade farewell to one of its most dedicated sons, Dr. Farooq Khan, of Mardan, this past Saturday. I may not have agreed with all of his religio-political views, but he was someone who was not afraid to voice his progressive religious views in his homeland of Pakhtunkhwa, and most importantly, did not flee when many others did. What his assassination has once again demonstrated is that the real threat to powerful and reactionary forces in society does not come from disconnected, rootless Westoxifcated intelligentsia, but from those that speak the language – and are closer to the pulse – of the people..
Today, however, struck me as a good day to start because often there is just bad news, but yesterday in Pakistan a small victory and a huge loss came back to back and gave me the sign I needed to get blogging.
US-NATO forces have been breaching the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan for months and last week they even killed 3 Pakistani military personel. The Pakistani government as usual when dealing with its Western overlords did sweet nothing,until, according to word on the street, the military pressured the government into acting. Subsequently, US supply routes to bases in Afghanistan have been closed.
A small victory indeed but for ordinary Pakistanis enough hope to realis\ze that it’s still possible to show the US the middle finger when it goes too far – as indeed it has in its relationship with Pakistan since at least the 1950s.
As for the loss... there are many liberals and progressives who sit in their homes, in their elite areas and write about 'the people' and what they lack., There are very few of these activists who actually live among the people and challenge their perceptions yet remain their brothers in religion. It is with the utmost sadness that Pakistan bade farewell to one of its most dedicated sons, Dr. Farooq Khan, of Mardan, this past Saturday. I may not have agreed with all of his religio-political views, but he was someone who was not afraid to voice his progressive religious views in his homeland of Pakhtunkhwa, and most importantly, did not flee when many others did. What his assassination has once again demonstrated is that the real threat to powerful and reactionary forces in society does not come from disconnected, rootless Westoxifcated intelligentsia, but from those that speak the language – and are closer to the pulse – of the people..
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