The US Administration has gone through several reviews on Afghanistan, and the results have been “more of the same”. Now Senator Biden is suggesting a “Pakistan First” policy which dictates more drone bombings and intrusive attacks on Quetta and Murdike. The language of the Kerry Lugar bill was the last apocryphal straw that broke the proverbial camels back. The half a million strong Army supported by the popular leader of the opposition, Mr. Nawaz Sharif is joined by the religious parties–all opposed to the Anti-Pakistanism of the US Ambassador and those who want to continue bombing Pakistan.
Kerry-Lugar Peanuts: 50% of US Aid fills pockets of US consultants 
The furore over the Kerry Lugar bill is only the tip of the iceberg. Pakistani think tanks, analysts and even patriots within the PPPP government are going through a major rethink of the Pakistani deal with the US in Afghanistan. hawks within the opposition like the Jamat e Islami, the PMLN, and the Tehrik e Insaaf have been pushing the PPPP acolytes to reassess Pakistan’s role in the so called war on terror. The first step in this major re-=evaluation will the elimination of the most visible symbol of the compliant government in Islamabad–mr. Husein Haqqani. The job of Pakistani Ambassador to the US (derisively called the US Ambassador to Pakistan) is hanging by a thin thread–its almost all over for Mr. Haqqani and his faction in the PPPP. An assertive wing is emerging in the PPPP which has warned Mr. Zardari that if the PPPP wants to retain its seats in the Majlis e Shura (National Assembly) and the Aiwan e Bala(Upper House–Senate) it has to fire Mr. Haqqani and other acquiescent symbols of servitude.
Blaming Pakistan won’t help the war on terror.
The US has mismanaged Pakistan. The US Army has underestimated the resilience of Pakistan and the nation’s continuing collective refusal to do what the west would like it to do. The recent Jane Parlez diatribe against Pakistan is very representative of the Pakistanphobicheadlines about Pakistan in the media: Understanding the Rupert Murdock-Neocon-Hinduvata doomsayer machine which is running scared of defeat and retreat. They have misunderstood the pugnacious Pakistanis. The obsequious Washington Press corp is foreget and conveniently uses selective Amnesia to abuse Pakistan– the most mistreated friend in the world
The following editorial published in the Nation is representative of the Pakistani thinking. Ms. Shireen Mazari is the ediotor of the Nation. She was targeted by the US Ambassador and fired from the News. Now the other shoe is about to fall. Two Ambassadors in Washington and Islamabab may each be fired.
ISLAMABAD – Pressure is building on the Pakistani military to rush into South Waziristan in the aftermath of the GHQ attack and the spate of bombings targeting Pakistani civilians. Close to 100 innocent Pakistanis are dead in less than a week. There is little question that logistical support, financing and arms for this anti-Pakistan insurgency are coming from Afghanistan, where United States and its allies are in control.
The last time ordinary Pakistanis were mass murdered in chain bombings across Pakistani cities was in the 1980s when the Soviet Union and its puppet government in Kabul unleashed a reign of terror in Pakistan to put pressure on the Pakistani military. The strategic and policy review taking place in the corridors of power in Islamabad and Rawalpindi in the aftermath of the debate over Kerry-Lugar bill and the attack on the army’s General Headquarters has given Pakistan and its military an opportunity to conduct a larger assessment.
Some voices within the Pakistani strategic community are now saying South Waziristan would be a half measure without a Pakistani regional rethink of its own role in a war in Afghanistan that is increasingly being viewed as a failed one. The US failure in Afghanistan, they say, can damage Pakistan’s regional standing for a long time to come. There is also the question that some influential quarters in Washington are desperate to ‘secure’ Pakistani geographic space and government and military infrastructure in support of the US mission in Afghanistan by any means, including direct meddling in the country’s political and military affairs. The most alarming development in this context is how Washington is using Pakistani democracy to contain the Pakistani military and intelligence from within.
While US officials consider their options, including something that they are calling the ‘Pakistan First’ option, which means giving priority to battling what they see as Al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban inside Pakistan, a growing number of influential Pakistanis believe Islamabad needs to cut its losses in a war that has lost focus and is being shifted to Pakistan for reasons other than what is stated publicly by US officials.
“The so-called TTP in South Waziristan is blockaded from three sides inside Pakistan,” says a Pakistani policy analyst, who prefers to remain unnamed because his official responsibilities do not include media appearances. “The TTP is exposed from the fourth side,” he says, “and that is Afghanistan. Who is supporting them from that side?”
The suspicion in many Pakistani political and military circles is that the supply of weapons and equipment from Afghanistan to terrorists in South Waziristan has some kind of support from “one or more levels” in the US military and intelligence on the ground in Afghanistan. One manifestation of this interference in Pakistan from the Afghan soil is the keenness, until recently, of influential US officials and commanders to focus the Pakistani military strength on the Afghan border and force Pakistan to cease viewing India as a threat, paving the way for granting India transit facilities to Afghanistan through Pakistani territory.
In September 2008, Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer, wrote in Time magazine that Washington downplayed a series of actions by the US military and CIA in Afghanistan that almost led to a war with Pakistan. “The story has been subsequently downplayed,” Baer said then, adding “and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Mike Mullen, flew to Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, to try to ease tensions. But the fact remains that American forces have and are violating Pakistani sovereignty.”
“The point here is,” says the Pakistani security analyst, “what is the point of a full-fledged operation in South Waziristan before ensuring that support to terrorists from the Afghan side is verifiably stopped?”
Pakistani strategic analysts insist Pakistan has no option but to destroy what Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has termed an ‘intelligence black hole’, referring to South Waziristan. But they point out that this alone will not help without considering introducing some changes in the Pakistani policy toward Afghanistan. This can include:
* A firm stand on repeated US claims, backed by no solid evidence, on the presence of Afghan Taliban and Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan.
* Putting an end to the deliberate US use of Pakistani democracy and the recruitment of civilian and political leaders into an effort aimed at creating what appears to be an internal coalition aimed at taking on the Pakistani military and intelligence.
- Ending Pakistan’s role in the 2006-07 ‘deal’ brokered by Washington between former president Musharraf and late Ms. Bhutto, which opened the door for unprecedented US meddling in Pakistani civilian and military affairs. The Pakistani military became an unwilling guarantor of this deal. Pakistan cannot assert independence in its approach toward the war in Afghanistan and its fallout on Pakistan without first deciding to end US political meddling inside Pakistan.
- Rethinking Pakistan’s position on Afghan Taliban. While committed to fighting terrorism, Pakistan needs to make clear that eliminating America’s Afghan opponents is not the responsibility of Pakistan. Pakistan should not become party to the wrong US policy of suppressing the rights of segments of the Afghan population that do not accept foreign occupation.
- Pushing the United States to recast its role in Afghanistan from an occupation force into a facilitator of Afghan nation building. This would mean recognising the legitimacy of all Afghans, including those resisting foreign occupation. Islamabad can consider endorsing the view of the advisor to the defense minister of Poland, Mr. Roman Kuzniar, who called on Washington on Sept. 27 to start talking to Afghan Taliban without conditions as a first step to ending the deadlock in Afghanistan.
If the supply of weapons from Afghanistan to terrorists across western Pakistan does not cease, along with the growing Indian presence that is aimed at Pakistan, Islamabad should be ready to consider scaling down the supply of food and energy from Pakistani ports to that country.
The attack on the GHQ and the murder of more than 80 Pakistanis in three major terrorist attacks in one week provides Pakistan an opportunity to conduct a major review of its policy and role in America’s Afghan war. This chance must not go unexploited, say many Pakistani analysts.
Monitoring & Reversing Anti-Americanism-Some Solutions 
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Senator John Kerrys confusion about Afghanistan
Pakistanis Continue to Reject wrong war policies of the U.S
Rolling back Anti-Americanism in South Asia: Building bridges with Pakistan
Pakistan needs FTA, ROZ & end to high Tariffs from US, EU & Japan
Anti-Americanism in Pakistan is actually an Anti-war movement!
PEANUTS: Puny US Aid to Pakistan is too little too late. Marshall Plan, & Trade concessions missing
Reconstruction Opportunity Zones and FTA with USA 
End rendition. Find Missing Pakistanis. Repatriate Dr. Afia 
Gitmo is the best recruiting tool Bush could have gifted the terrorists 
Prisoner 650: Dead Nation wants sister Dr. Aafia Siddiqui freed 
Selective Amnesia of Americans: Pakistan is the most mistreated friend in the world
How long can the wink wink nod nod farce of deadly drones go on 
The Headlines about Pakistan in the media: Understanding the Rupert Murdock, Neocon & Hunduvata doomsayer machine which is running scared of defeat and retreat
US aid to Pakistan should be Non-Transactional grants not loans 
An FTA and elimination of tariffs on Pakistani textiles would enable Pakistan to export $15 worth of textiles. Better than any aid package this would reverse extremism
In a lopsided policy the US wasted $143 Billion in aid to Afghanistan and gave Pakistan $5 Billion. Egyptian loans of around $38 Billion were forgiven. Pakistani losses due to GWOT calculated by the US DOD were $20 Billion per year in 2001. These losses have quadrupled. Aid to Pakistan is less than aid to Afghanistan. This has to be balanced with need. The US uses Pakistani infrastructure to transport supplies without building or even maintaining the roads.
Joe Biden triples US aid to Pakistan:-too little too late. Aid should be 20 times that number to compensate for usage of bases, roads and lost opportunity. Aid should create projects not be given to corrupt politicians. Reverse tracking should ensure that aid is not syphoned by corrupt politicians to Swiss accounts 
Needs of the Pakistan nation: These basics have to be addressed to win the hearts and minds of Pakistanis
Afghanistan-Pakistan forgotten by Joe Biden 
Holbrooke facing Khyber Poltergeist & Ganges hobgoblin
Pakistan’s “Do More” list to the USA
Reversing Anti-Americanism: Rising resistance to US imperialistic policies in Pakistan
