Pakistanis are sick and tired of the “do more” lecture. This lecture is as stale as the stink that emanates from “Abu Graib”. The “do more” lecture is counterproductive and is having a negative impact on the long term US-Pakistani relationship. Pakistanis have elephant memories and remember things. The visiting US diplomats should “do more” to learn some manners and learn to say “Thank You”.  

Rhetoric has its limits. Do American diplomats use the same type of mantra for all their non-NATO allies? The pathetic periodic and vitriolic diatribe against Pakistan by and Zalmay Khalilzada and Richard Armitage is insensitive, reeks of hubris, double standards and is destroying the goodwill for America and Americans. The visitors should see the “writing on the wall“. If this insensitivity continues many find comfort in the message of President Ayub Khan.

We need “Friends Not Masters“. The diplomats should “do more” and take memory improvement pills.  The selective amnesia of these diplomats conjures up images of ”The Ugly American“ that has forgotten “Charlie’s War” (Congressman Charlie Wilson) and the fact that it was the CIA that created these Frankenstein’s monsters in the “Unholy Wars” (Cooley) and left us to clear the garbage. This attitude perpetuates the belief by a   growing number of Pakistanis that they supported the wrong superpower and that Pakistan would have been better off with the USSR borders at Torkham.  

Those who ask Pakistan to “do more“ should “do more” to eradicate their Klashnikov and Drug culture and leave Pakistan alone. The USA should “do more” to appreciate Pakistan and Pakistanis. The USA should “do more“ to help Pakistan build more schools and hospitals and libraries and Universities. Pakistanis expect major US Universities to “do more” to set up satellite campuses in Pakistan. Pakistanis expect the Library of Congress to “do more” to set up remote libraries in all major US cities. Pakistanis expect US hospitals to “do more” to setup clinics in remote villages of Pakistan. Pakistanis expect the USA to “do more” to pay off the debts.

Pakistanis expect the USA to “do more” to liberate Kashmir and Palestine. Pakistanis expect the USA to “do more” and quit interfering in Pakistani affairs. We expect the USA to “do more” to build roads in Baluchistan and build canals. After all that Pakistan has done for the USA in the past 50 years, the USA should “do more” to learn to some manners to say “Thanks You”. The USA should “do more” to raise the decibel level of Thank You to the Pakistani nation not just a person. We expect the USA to “do more” to stay out of Pakistan and Afghanistan and “do more” not to drag Pakistan into Iraq.

If the USA does not change its attitude it may not have a friend left in Pakistan. If you want to continue to tell us to “do more“, a growing number of Pakistanis will say “Enough is Enough”. “No More”. Some may even ask you to “do more” to “stay home“. Some may even say “Yankee Go Home“. 

On deconstructing the wrong paradigm

http://moinansari.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/u-turn-in-our-thinking-deconstructing-the-wrong-paradigm/

Rebutting Cohen

http://moinansari.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/rebuttal-to-cohen%e2%80%99s-four-crises-and-a-peace-process-kargil-internationalized-the-kasmir-issue-and-put-a-death-knell-to-simla/

Another prophecy of doom

http://moinansari.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/here-we-go-again-another-indian-prophecy-of-doom-the-first-one-came-in-1947/