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.