Damadola Drones & divorce: US attacks evince Taliban retaliation against Pakistan bakery
The drone attacks have not solved any problem, they have exacerbated the situation, they destabilize the Pakistani government and interfere with the Pakistani government’s ability to create a zone of peace in West Asia. Damadola predetor drones heelfire missile sabotages peace
By sabotaging the peace deals, the drone hellfire missiles torpedo any chance of a peaceful solution to the quagmire of Afghanistan. The Taliban apparently recognize the US policy but splinter groups are bent on “an eye for an eye” revenge for the attacks.
The 38th American attack has convinced the Pakistani elite that Pakistan mush change course. Shireen Mazari on USA relations
The US apparently without Pakistani approval sent the 38th drone to attack a target in the tribal areas of Pakistan. These drone attacks evince retaliatory targets on innocent civilians in Pakistan. According to the Pakistan Army, most of the drone attack have missed their targets and landed on homes, schools and even weddings. The inability of the US spy agencies to differentiate turbaned Pashtunsfrom turbaned Taliban exacerbate the situation and create havoc for Pakistani civilians. The 38 attacks have created about 50 suicide bombings inside Pakistan proper. The Taliban consider the Pakistan army complicit with the US attacks and attack the army, the civilians, and also the supply lines to Pakistan.
The history of the Afghan defeats in Maiwand have been lost. Historically speaking the selective amnesia of the USA is amazing. The Taliban was a construct of the CIA“-. Congressman Rohrabacher. The US media places all problems on the desk of Pakistan. This irks all Pakistanis who know the truth and remember Brizinski’s speeches in Sarhad extolling the virtues of Islam and religion.
The Pashtuns of Pakistan were the biggest allies of the USA and helped destroy the USSR. What went wrong? Lincoln wanted to change enemies into friends. What in the US policy has transformed friends into enemies. Why are these same people being targeted as collateral damage? Americans need a deep introspective look into the foreign policy failures, and not continue a failed policy. “They hate us because of our freedoms” doesn’t hold water with the American people. If that were so, they would have attacked Norway. The instability in the Northern areas are inextricably tied in to the illegal occupation of the Muslims majority areaof Kashmir by India. With Kashmir on the back burner, and Afghanistan on the front burner, Pakistan is facing the heat from all sides. India’s interference in Baluchistan is not discouraged by the US either. Teheran blames Trilaterals for destabilizing Pakistan
Pakistan’s interests in Afghanistan have been ignored. An anti-Pakistan government in Kabul does not bode well for a trusting relationship between Washington and Islamabad. India a secret, and not to secret player in Afghanistan–Jawayria, Malik, Bases, Lashkargarh, Qushila and others
Pakistan is the most abused ally of the US: “Pakistan is not given proper credit in the USA”-General Zinni
Usually the drone attacks are timed to sabotage the peace deals between Pakistan and the extremists. Perpetual mimetic warfare is in the interests of certain quarters. More than 2000 Pakistani soldiers have died in the US Global War on Terror (GWOT). Certainly it is not in the interest of Pakistan to continue the US war on terror.
The venom from the US media causes irreparable damage to Pakistani-US relations. Pakistan: The biased US report on terror draws the wrong conclusion
Pakistanis believe that the US drones cause more harm than good and want them stopped. However hubris, arrogance and a tin ear in Washington refuses to listen to the long term harm that these drone attacks create.
Frustrated by defeat and under intense pressure to produce results in Kabul, the commanders blame Pakistan. The same phenomenon was witnessed in Vietnam, where the commanders and the politicians blamed Laos, and Cambodia for all the problems in battlefield. The Afghan defeat: Whose Spring offensive
To put salt on the wounds the US poodle, the Mayor Kabul barks weekly insults at Pakistan. The obsequious Murdockized US media, increasingly concentrated in a few hands, and fueled by the revanchist Neocons routinely blames Pakistan for all evil on the planet. In the past decade the 80,000 strong Frontier Force has repeatedly requested the US for M-16s, night visions, predator drones, and modern technology to fight terrorists. All the requests have fallen on deaf ears. The US has been long on rhetoric and short on providing the actual arms needs to fight the terrorists. Where’s the beef? The USA is long on rhetoric, but short on delivery. The USA has failed to provide arms to Pakistan
Shireen Mazari takes stock or US threatsThe paltry $750 million aid package spread thin over five years, half of which stays in the USA and never makes it out of consulting offices has done little to improve the situation on the ground. President Bush’s ephemeral Reconstruction Opportunity Zones 750(ROZ) scheme remains mired in US bureaucracy and nothing has really happened on that count. Roz’s in FATA, NWFP and Baluchistan would allow businessmen to create factories for direct export to the USA without tariff.
Python Swollows alligaor and explodes
America’s favorite whipping boy:-Pakistan With this litany of Pakistan complaints, and the US media’s dissatisfaction with Pakistani help over the past decade, the new government is under a lot of pressure in changing the relationship with the USA. What is in question is how to have an amicable divorce with America. The general attitude is “we don’t need your favors, nor your hate.”
Pakistan want Friends not Masters
“If you want perpetual mimetic warfare in Afghanistan, use the Russia routes. Leave Pakistan alone”.
There is so much discontent on the streets that if the US forces the current government into compliance, the streets and the National Assembly in Pakistan will revolt against the government and it will not survive.
Special report: Pakistani Situation Pakistan Taliban claims responsibility for bomb blast www.chinaview.cn 2008-05-19 20:32:58 Print
ISLAMABAD, May 19 (Xinhua) — A pro-Taliban military group in Pakistan on Monday claimed responsibility for a bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan, which killed 13 people including four soldiers, a private TV channel reported.
Pakistan’s Geo TV said Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, was responsible for the the suicide attack.
The TV channel quoted TTP spokesperson Moulvi Umar as saying that the attack was revenge of the “U.S. aggression” in Damadola.
Some missiles were fired from a drone and hit Damadola area in northwest Pakistan’s tribal region last Wednesday, killing 12 people. There has been no official comment on this missile fire.
The tribal areas in Pakistan bordering Afghanistan have seen several missile attacks launched by drones. Such attacks are usually blamed on the United States-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces, who have been fighting Taliban in Afghanistan.
The Pakistani government has been negotiating with local Taliban militants in northwestern area. The two sides had held swap of prisoners and were likely to ink a peace agreement in near future.
