Comments for Beware of gringos bearing gifts - Have the new centurians been hyped by their own propaganda? at http://www.pacificfreepress.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.pacificfreepress.com Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:26:17 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/436-beware-of-gringos-bearing-gifts-have-the-new-centurians-been-hyped-by-their-own-propaganda.html#comment-330 Pakistan and the Afghan Tragedy © Ehsan Azari The sad fact is that Pakistan has a flawed and self-destructive policy vis-à-vis Afghanistan. It continues the old policy of having a client regime in Kabul, a policy that will bring a disastrous implication for Pakistan's national security and strategic regional aims. Subjugating Afghanistan is a historical pipe dream that in the past two thousands years, many of the world's superpowers nurtured but never was realised. Pakistan needs to see Afghanistan as it is, not as it could have been, or as it wishfully hopes it will become. Bringing the Taliban to power in 1990s was the last biggest marker of such a wild dream by Pakistan. What Pakistan gained in 2001, when with the help of the local mercenaries the US-led invasion unseated the Taliban’s government? So much as even some Taliban leaders claimed that Pakistan betrayed them. Pakistan sold them out in return for money. Even all relevant analysts believe that Pakistani ISI is helping Taliban from the back-door, and in order to cover its meddling in Afghanistan, it draws upon religious parties. This is what the leading international media outlets have been confirming on the daily basis. This assertion isn’t come from outside. Last week thousands of Pushtoons took to the streets of Pakistani cities and called for an urgent stop of meddling in the internal affairs of Afghanistan. Mr Karzai is always crying foul about Pakistan’s “nasty play” and intervention. Even NATO’s generals claims there is a cross-border violence orchestrated from Pakistani soil inside Afghanistan. Common sense says that everyone cannot be wrong. Even if we for a moment accept that Pakistan is actively supporting the Taliban in their fight against NATO forces, at the end of the day, Pakistan will pocket nothing. You cannot buy an Afghan as Western diplomats say, you can hire them. In the event of a Taliban’s come back, it is highly unlikely that they will work for the interests of Pakistan. The proof is the recent terror attack in Bajaur area by the same Taliban that many believe are being supported militarily and financially by Pakistan. So in any case the big spoiler is the big loser. Playing a Russian roulette with the Afghans is in the interest of no one. Afghanistan’s majority Pushtoons are the primary victims of war in Afghanistan. They are being killed on the daily basis; their villages are being cruelly destroyed. This will, of course, has a greatest implication for Pakistan’s security, and even its survival as a country. After all Pushtoons of Afghanistan have band-of-brothers and bonds of blood with the Pushtoons of Pakistani side of the Durand Line. They cannot tolerate Pushtoon genocide under the name of war against terrorism. Pushtoons have a strategic stalk in the region; their fate is once again hanging in the balance. However, no one can deny that the root cause of Afghanistan’s problem is inside the country as well. Like a clown who has run out of all his jokes, Mr Karzai has nothing to offer in terms of solution to the problem or security in Afghanistan. Beyond doubt, there lies hypocrisy at the heart of his rule as a president. He is simply a cover for the most corrupt government in the history of Afghanistan that has been run by ex-communist warlords and some former Mujahideen parties belonging to the ethnic minorities of Afghanistan. His foreign missions are almost all occupied by ex-communist bureaucrats, and surrogates of the warlords with obvious criminal records. The irony is that Mr Karzai is more unpopular and hated among his own Pushtoon tribes who have been marginalized by the US-led occupation and the warlords of the so-called Northern Alliance who shifted their loyalty after the September 11 terrorist attack on the US from Russians to the Americans. These power-hungry warlords will vanish once again if they face a small risk of their political demise. Although warlords have been no more members of Mr Karzai’s cabinet, but they still enjoy a great clout on the Kabul government. Ex-communist warlords and bureaucrats are all over the place in Mr Karzai government that has weakened the moral base and damaged greatly Karzai legitimacy. This also embolden the Taliban giving them further moral fortitude and moral authority. - Ehsan Azari, Sydney-based Afghan journalist Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:16:28 +0100 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/436-beware-of-gringos-bearing-gifts-have-the-new-centurians-been-hyped-by-their-own-propaganda.html#comment-329 there is only one thing the gringo knows...war...sit and wait and he will give you his so.called democracy while he rapes your land and women and everything else he can get his greedy paws on keep on fighting - resist Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:39:15 +0100