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This article is a timely reflection of the real choices placed before Pakistan’s military rulers. On the one hand awaits a future confrontation with a Taliban proxy army going vindictive out of betrayal by turning their guns on the Pakistani state, while on the other stands the possibility of confronting American resolve. Yet if history serves to predict the future, I would say that the Pakistanis will cower before the more powerful. They have already perfected the art of internalizing former masters in place of their litany of historical submissions under their feet. This is the underlying reason for Pakistanis implying that Muhammad bin Qasim was the first Pakistani, followed by the glorification of military missiles with names borrowed from Afghan leaders such as “Ghorid”, “Ghaznavid”, and “Abdali”. Given their more recent servitude before Imperial Britain, it is also no coincidence that Pakistani leaders have been noted to behave more British that the British themselves.
What are the odds that two centuries from now, Pakistanis will be naming their spears after Bush and Obama, complete with Stetson hats and a twang in their English? The most probable outcome is a no-brainer…