"Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of bricks and made it a city of marble. Baghdad was another city of bricks, and a coterie of American generals turned it into a city of cement." -- Washington Post correspondent Anthony Shadid;
But it wasn't just a 'coterie of American generals.'
The worst culprits in America are the think-tank types in Washington and New York who believe they can sit in their cozy air-conditioned offices watching Fox and CNBC and come up with kooky ideas about shaping the politics in other nations. Read for some of them and you'd wonder how could the peoples of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan live for so many centuries without the wise and sage advice of American think-tank types.
The latest victim of American McDemocracy is Pakistan, where a nation that had Asia's best performing capital market before 2004 has been utterly destabilized by Washington in order to bring a McDemocractic government to power.
Pakistan is destined to suffer as long as it continues to allow the Americans inside Pakistan buying and cajoling politicians and public figures, while the American military messes up whatever is left of Afghanistan.
The illegal drone attacks on Pakistan is another worst crime Washington shamelessly willing to continue. I won't mind to say it the United Shameless America.
ReplyDeleteWHEN?? WHEN will someone come and kick out the Americans?? What will it take? Another episode of 1971??A complete disintegration of state? The situation is so dire. Why doesn't someone just go ahead and impeach Zardari! Optimism about the future of Pakistan is hard to maintain these days.
ReplyDeleteforget about the politicians, they aren't worth discussing. the question is who's policies is responsible for mess in Pakistan today. the answer is simply 'musharraf'He destroyed Pakistan's afghan/kashmir policy,
ReplyDeletebowed down to india and gave blank check to america to expand it's CIA setup in Pakistan.
Just like present government is reluctant to name Raw/Cia for insurgenices in Fata/balochistan, same was the case with musharraf.