It is very clear that the author harbors some ill will for Pakistan and has a pre-set agenda before the writing of the article. I cannot preclude the possibility (I am very very sure but just cannot photograph him taking a check) that he might have been paid to write against Pakistan by typical people who want to hurt our country due to their irrational ideas and agendas towards our country. He has continued to make his bias evident again and again by deviating from facts wherever it suited him while writing the piece. Let us spot a few of these things in the article.
While these are important tactical questions, they’re of limited value if the underlying strategy remains flawed. A more consequential question is why Pakistan’s harboring of yet another terrorist commander has been met with a collective shrug by the United States and the international community. It’s an uncomfortable reminder that Pakistan’s “double game” has become old news. Accepted wisdom. Permitted behavior. In Washington, anger has been dimmed by exhaustion, with many now hoping to reach a modicum of stability in Afghanistan and put the whole messy affair behind them. History, however, has been unkind to great powers that fail to learn from their mistakes.
I would not be sure about Pakistan's harboring any commander here. But this guy knows for sure and after making his observation, starts on a rant and finally concluding to tell his nation how great powers have fallen due to inaction. Pakistan's government did her investigation how the previous commander who died in strikes had acquired Pakistan's identity card and several government officials were laid off who were responsible.
To be clear, few in Washington are under any illusions about the extent of Pakistan’s perfidy. Hillary Clinton has warned that Pakistan “poses a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world.” In his memoir, Defense Secretary Robert Gates recalled how “in every instance” the United States shared intelligence with Pakistan about a target, “the target was forewarned and fled” or Pakistan launched a botched operation of its own. “I knew they were really no ally at all,” he explained.
For example he is pulling things that have passed long while ago and wants to justify his analysis of current and present state of affairs based on something that was said way long time ago. I think that Pakistan's support for some extremist groups is very little at the moment and at its lowest in the past forty years history of Pakistan.
It’s nonsense—a fabricated dichotomy in a fictional reality where the mere specter of U.S. pressure threatens the integrity of the Pakistani state, where the million-man Pakistani army is powerless to protect its nuclear arsenal and where a severing of bilateral relations would prove more costly to the United States than to Pakistan. This narrative has ensured the U.S. toolbox is brimming with $20 billion in carrots but desperately lacking in sticks. What’s worse, the sticks America does possess are only to be wielded in the event Pakistan crosses an existential threshold, such as a successful terrorist attack on U.S. soil planned or perpetrated from its territory.
I really do not know where this guy has gotten this 20 billion dollars. I read on American government's web site that the aid they spent (which mostly goes to their cronies to work against our own country) was 650 million dollars in year 2015. And Pakistan spent substantially more than a billion dollars in Army operation against extremists and terrorists in the tribal areas just last year. This guy is totally cutoff from all reality. Terrorism has hurt Pakistan's economy to the tune of 80 billion dollars and we have to bear this loss on our own. He keeps whining about the greatness and generosity and against giving so huge carrots but I see only some shriveled stale carrot.
A punitive threshold should have been crossed the first time U.S. intelligence intercepted Pakistan’s notorious intelligence service, the ISI, feeding the Taliban information about U.S. airstrikes, or aided them in organizing attacks in Afghanistan. Or when the Haqqani Network, a known proxy of the ISI, orchestrated the deadliest attack on the CIA in the agency’s history in 2009. Or when the same group orchestrated an attack on the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan two years later. Above all, it should have been crossed when Pakistan’s “game” resulted in the death of American servicemen and women in Afghanistan.
So why are you advocating it now. Nothing of the great sort has happened now. Why did you not write the article at bombing of the embassy and it would have been more appropriate. Now when nothing of the sort is happening, you have started to cite all the old issues.
Besides I read about Haqqani network story on this forum. Many many times, they wanted peace and wanted to be allies with Hamid Karazai but Americans and their local war lords who had control over some areas continued to thoroughly humiliate them. Honestly I can see after such thorough humiliation, any dignified Afghan(or anyone else) would have just one goal that he would want every American soldier out of Afghan soil. I do see a very clear cause and effect in what they are doing. It is typical of Americans. They always bungle up things and then start using indiscriminate force against humans. We have seen evidence of this particular skill in Iraq and other places.
If Americans are that serious about peace I would request them to go ahead and apologize to Haqqani network for what their forces did to Haqqani network when it continued to try for peace and struggled for being a part of peace process in Afghanistan. If Americans have that great of an ego then they should suffer the consequences and of course kill more people in the process. If I were wrong I would have no hesitation in saying sorry especially if it saved blood of any single human.
Don’t accept the canard that nuclear terrorism is the only alternative to the status quo. And don’t be deluded into thinking America is a hopeless victim at the mercy of the Pakistani military, incapable of imposing unbearable costs on any person, group or institution it deems a threat to national security.
He created the notion of nuclear terrorism and then started bashing it. We, as Pakistanis, do not believe in any such thing he is saying. Pakistan Army and government is very clear that our nuclear weapons are in very very safe control. We also categorically say that we do not want nuclear weapons and if India is willing to denuclearize, we will also do that.
Now look at the psyche of the author. He uses words like nuclear terrorism and then look at the statements like,"And don’t be deluded into thinking America is a hopeless victim at the mercy of the Pakistani military" These emotional manipulations are very well known to conservative and neocon media in United States. They try to evoke emotional feelings among simple Americans by using clever play on words to achieve their purpose even when they are lacking in facts.
These authors with a specific agenda would continue to put Pakistan and nuclear terrorism together so that in minds of every simple American this association becomes perfect and would be deftly exploited when there would be need for war on Pakistan in neocon minds.
That’s what superpowers do when their interests are threatened and their soldiers are under fire
I would like to tell this guy that more powerful you are, the more responsible you have to be in your use of power and force. He on the other hand is proposing the use of force like typical neocon children mentality. These people are like children who are never able to grow up and they enjoy wars like games that little children enjoy and love to play. If you ask a child about war, he would say that not only will we go to war but we will also surely win the war and kill every single one of the bad guys. These neocons have no regard for great human suffering due to wars and, in fact, they like to inflict suffering like that on Muslims since we are evil and subhuman to them like children have not much regard for the bad guys. This is what they did in Iraq and these grown up children will never hesitate to go to war against us whenever they could.
