It seems very popular here is USA to condemn Pakistan. Yet,
do you know that terrorism has killed 350,000
Pakistani’s since 911? When will we read
history and realize what a huge part our own foreign policy has played
in the
chaos we now read about?
The
CIA recruited
fighters in Afghanistan, Pakistan and throughout the Middle East to
fight the “godless”
Russians. An elder gentleman I used to
have tea with in Peshawar was a general in the Pakistan army in the
‘70s. The top US military men in those days asked
him what he thought about the idea of creating an army to fight for god. He said “ It will work, but what do we do
when you are done?”
If
any of us
bother to look up the tragic truth about what is now called the “Af/Pak Situation”, we will be
appalled! Own tax dollars helped develop an
education
system which uses hatred as a tool to create what is now a third
generation of
terrorists. The tables have turned and in
the absence of the Russians, we are now the infidels.
The
latest story,
now being turned into a political football, is the case of the CIA pay
rolling
Dr.Shakil Afridi to run a fake clinic in an effort to get the DNA of bin
Laden’s
relatives. If the US government really
cared about this man, they had many
opportunities to evacuate him. His real crime is not treason nor is it conspiring
to work with the bad guys. His crime is
that his actions have placed a massive cloud of suspicion over anyone
offering
medical care to the grassroots poor worldwide.
For the CIA to set these kinds of
things up, without considering the repercussions of their actions, is
business
as usual.
In
war big
fish rarely get penalized, and very often get rich. It
is the innocent poor, the female, and the
young that suffer the most. If we really
want to help the situation, this is who we need to work with. Does anybody care that there were 20,000
pregnant women among the wave of displaced people who fled
the
tribal areas when we started bombing with our drones? Those
babies will most likely become
terrorists, too, if they don’t get a real education and medical care.
