Putin is always right
Best outcome is Afghanistan become Afghania province a legal part of Pakistan and Pakistan Army and Nuclear weapons protection
End from the none sense
Hey “Top Gun”,
You've already tried that but ended up landing on your face. In the process, you've also awakened millions of Afghans into recognizing the nature of our sworn enemy. Back in the 1960's, our national leaders were disappointed to see the ease with which Pakistan was able to galvanize support from among rural Afghans to fight what they claimed to be "Hindu infidels" in India. These were popular and well-respected Afghan leaders whose public servants were well received as a source of pride when visiting any remote corner of the country. Yet they were at a loss to explain to hot-headed Afghans that the Indians were our friends. Had they openly declared war on Pakistan, they'd have received support from both sides of the Durand line without question. However, they found their Achilles heel with Pakistan’s exploitation of Islam in diverting the Afghan public’s attention away from their actual enemy.
Today, you’d be hard pressed to get even Mullah Omar to support your grumblings against India.
Pakistan unmistakably saw in its perpetual state of war with India an ongoing opportunity to secure military support from China whilst developing Afghan proxies in the name of Islam against their own country. In the process, your leaders gradually began moving away from the American orbit until the foolhardy Soviet supported Afghan Communists launched a coup as I’ve outlined in a past commentary. In view of the immense Afghan rejection of this movement, the Soviets intervened directly to support their cronies as you milked the Americans while shamelessly empowering your own proxies to annihilate Afghanistan.
Yet you miscalculated, for it was only during the second half of the 1980’s that the Americans saw in Ahmed Shah Massoud - a one time asset who had fallen out with Pakistan – an opportunity to “even the ground” in Afghanistan. Bypassing their Pakistani “allies”, the Americans began providing direct support to Massoud, hence the underlying reason for your military’s hatred of him. It burns you leaders that an Afghan from Panjsher who was once rejected by the ISI in preference for their carefully nurtured assets from among our own Pashtuns, ended up fighting against them in defense of Afghanistan. Did your people not know that even the best of plans as devised by evil-doers are undone by God’s own grand plan? How many variables do you think you would need to consider for a long term plan to work?
The Pakistanis wanted to rule Afghanistan through their murderous proxy, Gulbudeen Hekmatyar, whilst the Americans ended up working with Massoud in opposition to Pakistan’s non-negotiable whims. Much like today, you were apparently “allies” during the 1980’s. Contrary to the then UN representative for Afghanistan - Diego Cordovez – asserting that the Americans were bent on prolonging the Afghan-Soviet war (see: "Out of Afghanistan"), available evidence now helps us make a reasonable assumption that they might have engaged directly with the USSR to help patch up a Mujahedeen government in alliance with some Communists for a transitional post-Communist Afghan government. Why? To prevent an ambitious Pakistani military that was drunk on a binge of grandiose delusions. As we all know and for wider reasons I shall not elaborate here, that government failed as the then Prime Minister Hekmatyar as prodded along by Pakistan waged a destructive war against the then Defense Minister Massoud. Once Hekmatyar and his backers in the Pakistani military and intelligence were defeated in battle at a heavy cost to Afghan civilians, you then went on to back a village idiot like Mullah Omar whilst propagating the Taliban as a force for badly needed peace and stability. Your leaders also cunningly invited the popular Afghan King’s son-in-law – Sardar Wali Khan – to visit Afghan refugees in Pakistan and if only to use his presence for propagating the Taliban as a movement for the restoration of the Afghan Monarchy. Given their seeming birth place in Kandahar, many Afghans including myself took that bait, hook, line, and sinker. We had no way of knowing that the weapons that Massoud was receiving from Russia were in fact purchased by the Americans (see: “Ghost Wars”
. In other words, the Americans and the Russians were working together in opposition to what they clearly saw by then as a common threat. Are you with me?
As dear old George Bush once comically fumbled with the words, “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”, we Afghans are not about to give your Taliban servants the light of day. It is the end of the line for them as a major movement. We shall embrace as fellow citizens those Taliban who earnestly seek peace, but ISI agents like the Haqqanis will be skinned alive and fed to the dogs if caught. As for those Afghans who’ve axes to grind with the current government or elements therein, they are already kicking out the Taliban from their regions and may form a mass movement of their own, inshAllah.
Vladimir Putin has been supporting the developments in Afghanistan that have led to the current status quo for a very long time. Today, he sees a plural Afghan political structure developing and with a new sense of Afghan nationalism growing among our youth. He recognizes that the Americans are going to keep an indefinite presence capable of repelling any Pakistani adventurism via proxy in case the young Afghan military were to fall short. Putin can not forget that a far less popular Najib government that his own predecessors had left behind continued to repel the Mujahedeen for a good two years until he was no longer able to pay for his soldiers as the Soviets went Bankrupt and declared Perestroika. Najib’s modest success lay in the fact that he had ditched Communism for a more Nationalist government that was in fact energized with Afghans outside of his party joining him. Yet compared to that government, today’s
Afghanistan is far better placed in any measure of comparison. For reasons that are open for debate, it is the Americans who are most responsible for undermining the Karzai government and not the Taliban or their bubble-headed sponsors. Be that as it may, today’s Afghanistan is a big platform that is about to become even broader, noisier, perhaps even more violent, but most likely all the more resilient in the longer term.
Now “Top-Gun”, try and impress me again with your delusions of grandeur. If the Pakistanis had the courage and willpower to acquire Afghanistan, you’d have done it long ago. Using Afghans against Afghans through deceit was your single most courageous act by far. Precisely what are you going to do when we are capable of returning your misery in kind? The Syrian Baathists used to support the terrorist Kurdish Communists against Turkey for many years. Now that the tables have turned, who is laughing?
One day – like the Russians - Pakistanis too are going to have to ask their unelected military leaders as to how they’ve managed to get them to where they are today. The Afghan Parliament has just passed a vote of no confidence and sacked both the Defense and Interior Ministers. “Top-Gun”, do you suppose this can happen in Pakistan today?
