What People Say?Different people with different perspectives

In reply to Indian government’s request for return for Rs 74 billion loan it has sanctioned for a watershed project in occupied Kashmir, World Bank has recently said that the State was not a territory of India and the area was disputed one. In fact the world community accepts the disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir, and understands the problem. The Mumbai terrorist attacks have brought India and Pakistan with more stinging relations. Both the States acknowledge that there were some non-state elements that wanted to create more mistrust and hostility between the two rival States, which had already fought three wars. But besides that understanding India has remained reluctant to initiate a meaningful and composite dialogue. Pakistan has repeatedly stressed upon the solution of all outstanding issues through meaningful dialogue but in vain; India has not taken it seriously and stressing upon the need of stunning action against the so-called masterminds of Mumbai incident, inside Pakistan. It is a universal rule that an accused would never be punished till the availability of any proof against him. United Nations had also passed a resolution against the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, following which the government of Pakistan took action against the leadership of Organisation and they were kept under house arrest for some time but after that the concerned court ordered for the removal of that restriction. The whole story on the part of Pakistan regarding action against the accused is a sound and reasonable. No State can take action against any of its citizen, upon mere accusations of foreign State, unless and until the provision of solid proof. Recently, Pakistan Ambassador to India, in an interview said that Indian investigations with regard to the Mumbai attacks were insufficient. Besides that, Pakistani Foreign Office has repeatedly said that the Indian government had not provided enough proof. After all these facts, the Indian demand remains futile but they are insisting on their demand and called it the reason for deadlock between the two States. The Indian government loves the allegations game and the trend is not new for Pakistan. It is the easiest way to refuse table talks. The Indian leaders are playing the blame game since long. A couple of months ago Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Sigh revealed that terrorist groups inside Pakistan were planning for Mumbai style attacks inside India. It has been an old style of accusations, where the government wants to hide its own failure and put all the responsibilities over the shoulder of others, without any reason or proof. Pakistan is passing through a critical phase of its history. The terrorist attacks are happening on day-to-day basis in almost all cities and important places. The so-called war against terrorism has been brought inside Pakistan successfully. The Indian involvement, along with other powers, in all those acts is an open secret. Pakistan has evidence of Indian involvement in turbulent Baluchistan. Certain Baluch leaders are in Afghan Capital and operate the activities in the province. More than 60 years history of Indo-Pak relations is evident that hostile attitude, is not in the interest of the people of sub-continent, most of which are living below poverty line. Its the hawkish decision makers on both sides, which are against the peace for their vested interests. They have hijacked the peace and stability of the region. The 21st century is called the century of progress and technological advancement, but during the last decade, the world has witnessed severe human agony, in the shape of killings of hundreds of thousands innocent people all over the world. The civilized world must stop these killings and give the masses a chance for a peaceful and happy life. Resumption of composite and meaningful dialogue between India and Pakistan, is the need of the day. No pre-conditions must be attached to the dialogue process, for the sake of prosperity of people and our next generations.

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      Why did  we let Osama Bin Laden escape when we had him surrounded in 2002 and have not caught up with him since?  Because we need him to justify our open-ended occupation of Afghanistan. The Al Qaeda militants Osama is said to lead are not a traditional army with fixed headquarters and a single chain of command.  Much like the Russian Mafia, it operates in small, mobile cells, ideological united but strategically disconnected from each other. Capture members of one cell and no amount of interrogation can extract from them reliable information on the whereabouts or next move of other cells. And because their weaponry and methods of combat are so simple—roadside bombs hidden in trash bags, brainwashed, crazed or drugged suicide bombers—their fighters could just as readily be trained in Somalia, Yemen, Indonesia, the jungles of Bolivia or in abandoned factories in Gary Indiana.  

      Recall that the 9/11 hijackers got  most of their training here in the U.S., and all were citizens of Saudi Arabia, a major trading partner and ally of ours.  Recall also how two poverty-level misfits kept Virginia, Maryland and DC terrorized for weeks with nothing more than a deer rifle and an old car.

      So if Osama bin Laden is killed—assuming he’s not dead already— some other equally charismatic honcho waiting in the wings would simply take his place, and the conflict would range on, in Afghanistan, some other part of the world, or here at home.   We then would have to publicly admit that we have taken on a chameleon-like monster that cannot be destroyed militarily, like we did  Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in World War II.  Absurd though it may seem, a healthy, mighty Osama Bin Laden on the run is our most valuable propaganda asset.

     Now the question arises:  What are we doing in Afghanistan to begin with?  Why are we sacrificing our brave soldiers, displacing and killing thousands of innocent Afghan civilians, trying to shove our cultural values down their throats, wasting billions bribing corrupt local officials, incurring the anger and disrespect of the rest of the world when it is obvious that the so-called “War on Terror” in Afghanistan—like the one Iraq–is a non-war that cannot be won militarily?  Can’t we see that the only way to fight the low-tech, small- cell kind of terrorism waged by Al Qaeda is to turn the problem over to Federal, state and municipal law enforcement departments?

     On the face of it, it would seem that our leaders in Washington are either, mad, blind or downright stupid.  But that’s not likely.  There is, there has to be, a reason why they insist on fighting a war with no end in sight.  Two-hundred and fifty years ago the philosopher David Hume (Adam Smith’s mentor) suggested that stripped of their political, ideological, patriotic, religious and other high-minded rationalizations, the real reason behind wars was economic.  It could well be, then, that there are people, or groups of people, in America and abroad, who stand to profit hugely by “staying the course” in Afghanistan, and Iraq.  So maybe, instead racking our brains trying to make sense out of the War on Terror from a military or diplomatic perspective, we should do as Hume suggested and simply follow the money.   

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