Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton: Confronting a suspicious
and
angry Pakistan may be her toughest mission yet.
The Frontier Post, Pakistan
Hillary a 'Bigger Liar' than Condoleezza
"She
is turning out to be a bigger liar, a more malignant truth-twister and a
greater diabolical chicaner than her predecessor Condoleezza Rice. Her act
stinks, her talk stinks; she is all posturing. Although Pakistan's leadership
and establishment may be slavishly dancing to her abominable tune, the people
of this country aren't the least bit amused."
On a visit to Islamabad, Secretary of State Clinton has administered a dose of straight-talk that doesn't seem to have gone down too well with Pakistan's leadership or general public.
U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton may have steered a safe course by asserting that the trust
deficit between Pakistan and the United States can't be wiped out overnight,
but the way things are going, it won’t even evaporate in ages. The problem is that
this deficit and the anger of the Pakistani public are motivated essentially
by American dishonesty and the persistent betrayal and deception of this
country by Washington. The horrible thing is that this type of American
trickery remains fully in play, as they demonize Pakistan for religious
extremism and militancy, the source of which is none other than America.
Although Pakistanis are
inherently religious-minded, neither extremism nor militancy has been part of this.
It was the United States and its cohorts who introduced our predominantly-moderate
polity to such horrid phenomenon, when we fought a proxy war against the Soviet
invaders of Afghanistan. Apart from corralling hordes of zealots from all over
the world and disgorging them in Pakistan to send them on to Afghanistan's
battlefields, the CIA unloaded bagfuls of greenbacks and petrodollars in
Pakistan to create radical fanatics. They called them “mujahideen” who were
recruited to fight the proxy war, which they fondly labeled the “Afghan Jihad,”
The creation of this lethal concoction in which they had such a big hand, and
which they abandoned the moment the Soviets retreated, has become a painful
albatross around the neck of this country’s still-predominantly moderate
polity.
Hillary Clinton holds
meeting with Pakistan journalists.
Despite this, Americans act
as though they had no role in creating this vile phenomenon, and act as though
it was an entirely indigenous occurrence. This enrages the people of Pakistan,
as does America's despicable dishonesty in hiding the cowardice of their
invading armies who refuse to confront, wound and capture the Taliban and their
al-Qaeda allies in Afghanistan. They allow fleeing Taliban to freely return to
their families and tribes in Afghanistan, regroup and become resurgent. They
also show no soldiering in confronting the remnants of al-Qaeda, allowing them
to hide with their sympathizers in Afghanistan or sneak into Pakistan.
Despite all this, they
deceitfully talk as though Pakistan was the birthplace and nursery for
al-Qaeda, which enormously increases the anger of the people of Pakistan, who watch
their innocent compatriots killed in droves by CIA drone strikes. These
purportedly target militants, only a few of which are eliminated, while far
more civilians, mostly women and children, are killed.
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Now Hillary Clinton is
pouring barrels of oil on the fire with her false talk of Osama bin Laden
hiding in Pakistan and her threats of dire consequences if a terrorist strike
on America is traced to this country. Indeed, she's
turning out to be a bigger liar, a more malignant truth-twister, and a greater
diabolical chicaner than her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice. Her act stinks, her
talk stinks; she is all posturing. Although Pakistan's leadership and
establishment may be slavishly dancing to her abominable tune, the people of
this country aren't the least bit amused. They are boiling in anger over her
posturing and outrageous outpourings. They are as deeply incensed at her
straight-faced lies and nonchalant threats as they are with the overall act of
the Obama Administration, which is making Pakistan pay the price for their
spurious war in Afghanistan, while letting India reap all the benefits at
Pakistan’s expense.
Video segment from Pakistan's E-Tribune on whether
Since there's no sign of a
change in the U.S. administration’s modus operandi in the region, any talk of
an evaporation of the trust deficit can only be the prattle of an
incorrigible optimist. There has been a long list of U.S. betrayals of this
country over the past several decades, which grows with the passage of every
year. Predictably, the list will continue to expand in the coming decades,
since Pakistan invariably appears to every U.S. administration as a sacrificial
goat to be exploited, manipulated, used, and then, when its usefulness is
exhausted, sent to the slaughterhouse. Only the hierarchs of Islamabad are
fooled. The people of Pakistan are not. They have been, and will continue to
be, completely disillusioned by America’s rulers and henchmen, whatever their stripe.
They aren't the least duped by some transient bribe of Uncle Sam that offers only
impermanent, self-serving gains.
