What More Evidence On Mr. Zardari Do We Need?

Someone in the Presidency in Islamabad should inform Mr. Asif Ali Zardari to go easy on his passion for kissing American bottom.

I know he is grateful to the United States government for restoring his and his late wife's billions of dollars in unexplained wealth, and for elevating him to power in Pakistan.

But he should go easy on how he expresses his gratitude.

Under his command, the Pakistani government has conferred the nation's highest civilian award on at least three or four US citizens in less than a year.

That's a world record for US officials. No one has shown them this much love. Not even the Brits.

And now Mr. Zardari is repeating like a parrot what the American media and some US officials and think-tank types say about Pakistan that it 'created' the Taliban and other extremist groups to serve foreign policy interests.

Of course, that's baloney.

There is nothing wrong if Pakistan identified friends among Afghan and Kashmiri groups that emerged because of crises in those regions.

It is our right to support our friends as much as the Indians are supporting Tibetan terrorists on Indian soil, or the Americans are secretly backing Chinese Muslim groups.

This is why a majority of Pakistanis have been shocked by the irresponsible statement by the President of Pakistan 'admitting' that Pakistan has 'created' violent groups.

The presidential spokesman, Farhatullah Babur, is busy firing off angry statements to newspapers scolding what he calls ‘Bhutto-haters’. A better use of his time might be to show his boss some recent examples of what others do to protect their interests.

Mr. Babar can tell Mr. Zardari the story of the American woman caught red handed in Tehran a couple of months ago with documents in her hand stolen from a sensitive government department. She was accredited as a journalist by a respectable American newspaper that issued her a reporter's badge knowing that she is no journalist and knowing that she will be spying for CIA.

When the operation was botched and she was arrested, all Washington's threats were gone and were replaced by somber pleas for her release with quiet winks that if Iran releases the spy, America might consider going easy on Iran [unfortunately the Mullahs in Tehran fell for the ruse.]

Yet no US Senator or Congressman came out to say, 'Why are we sending spies to other countries' or 'Let's admit that we've created the Jundullah terrorist group to bring down Iran's government.'

In any other self-respecting nation, President Zardari would've been impeached by now. But not in Pakistan. We're destined to enjoy the bitter fruits of the Am-Brit imposed democracy.