Sleeping with the enemy

Last week has been very interesting in relation to the reactions of the international politicians with respect to the Pakistani government-military nexus with the so called “Taliban” in the SWAT valley. You have Hillary Clinton ranting away - “the activity by the extremists in Pakistan poses a direct threat to the government of Pakistan as well as to the security of the United States, Afghanistan and a number of other nations.” Hello!! Where the hell have you been m’am? India has shouted itself hoarse over the activities of Pakistan which has been using the ISI (or the other way around, doesn’t matter) for various terror attacks in India, presumably over Kashmir for the past twenty years and more! But no, its all about geo-strategic interests, all short sighted with blinkered vision, with the so called US interests in mind. The Pakistanis have still not got over the fact that they lost East Pakistan in 1971, because of its own negligent treatment of the region which is now Bangladesh. India just facilitated its formation. Indira Gandhi’s biggest mistake was to negotiate peace through the Simla accord when we had Pakistan on the mat, and Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw(God bless his soul) had asked for 48 hours to take over Karachi. But we sued for peace, you know why, the then US President had sent its Seventh Fleet into the Indian Ocean as a veiled threat to India to call back the advance, which we did. This was at the height of the Cold War, and I am sure the Russians would have done some saber rattling to counter the US presence if we had not wilted under the US pressure.

The US has been behind a lot of the global conflicts post World War II with “US strategic interests” in mind – whether it is Vietnam, Cambodia, Latin America, Libya, Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan, dictatorships in Africa, you name them and the US through its dirty tricks department (CIA) would have been there. The US has used funded its dirty tricks department to arm various dictatorships throughout the world, as it, of late has done in Afghanistan and currently does in Pakistan. The US has slept with the enemy throughout its post World War II history and has always got a bloody nose for it.

It is a well known fact that India has not attacked any nation throughout its long history – it is a land which has absorbed all the attacks and assimilated the invaders in its bosom to become, over time, a very vibrant country waiting to take its rightful place in the comity of nations. Through its resilience, intellectual manpower and economic clout – I am confident that in the next twenty years or so it will get there.

The Pakistani authorities have signed a peace deal with the Taliban in the SWAT valley, thereby ceding Pakistan’s most famous holiday destination to fundamentalists. How can a country cede territory to people who do not respect women? These people are animals who think women are only meant for satisfying their lust and for breeding and not for education, culture the arts etc. The US, like the rest of the world is shocked by the act of the Pakistani government. Actually, if you ask me, what would you expect from the former Mr. 10 percent? I am sure he would have taken his 10% cut from the ISI-Taliban coterie to sign on the dotted line. Mr. Zardari is a characterless person (a mental retard who – in public- joked about kissing Mrs. Sarah Palin) who has been made the President of the most unstable country in the world. The US has contributed to it by sleeping with all the previous leaders in Pakistan, thinking that by giving money for arms and the dying Pakistani economy they would somehow get salvation. That has not happened and the world has suddenly become very dangerous with the official sanction to the Taliban to rule over the SWAT valley. It is just the beginning - imagine what would happen if the Taliban along with the Al Qaida gradually activate all their sleeper cells in Pakistan and in the rest of the world – we are looking at very unstable times indeed. Pakistan has freed its jailed nuclear architect, Dr. AQ Khan, all these events point to a Faustian plan for ceding to the fundamentalists! If Taliban gets control of Pakistan, then the ultimate dream of an Islamic world ruled by fanatics does not seem too far away. The right thinking people of the world need to get together very fast to take care of this problem. It is high time the US stopped sleeping with the enemy. All it needs to do is take care of the nuclear assets of Pakistan - it had turned a blind eye to when Pakistan was building its arsenal – with even the self righteous Japanese helping the Pakistanis by supplying a large quantity of critical equipment for Pakistan nuclear plans. Let’s hope the people in power wake up and act decisively to help make our world a safer place to live in.