This Time, the Americans Have Gone Too Far!: The Frontier Post, Pakistan
Aug 9th, 2009 | 2 responses
While the United States is having some success targeting militants in Pakistan with drone aircraft, winning over the local population on the ground is another story.
According to this angry editorial from Pakistan’s Frontier Post – a newspaper located along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border that often has a militant flavor to it – American disrespect for the locals and plans to expand the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad have undermined the Pakistan government’s standing in the eyes of its own people.
The Frontier Post editorial starts off by discussing a recent episode that seems to have struck a local nerve:
“The story goes that one of the security minions at the American Embassy in Islamabad stopped a senior Pakistani police officer from travelling past the embassy on a public road. When the officer protested, the Yankee first abused the Pakistani with a number of choice expletives, rushed back into the embassy, took out a lethal weapon and menacingly threatened him. Yet this American scum of the earth still remains on his post – untouched! Had this been even a banana republic with a modicum of national dignity, the rascal would have been kicked out instantly. But not here in this republic, which boasts of being a nuclear power – even if he has abused this country and its people; even though he’s become his own law on our own land.
“More shamefully, Pakistan’s officialdom is more intent on playing down the wicked exploits of American bullies like this ruffian at the U.S. embassy. They arrogantly and hubristically flout our laws, yet our unworthy officialdom is so sold out to the American imperialists that they go whole hog to protect these breakers of our laws instead of taking them to task.”
EDITORIAL
August 7, 2009
Pakistan – The Frontier Post – Home Page (English)
Have the Americans hired Pakistan on lease to make it their colony and its people their slaves? Has it been auctioned out to them to make a Wild West and their sprawling ranch of it? Startling reports are rife of American diplomats roaming free and defiantly on Islamabad’s roads, in cars with no diplomatic plates, loaded with guns and making outstation trips without even obtaining the required permission of Pakistan’s authorities – and now we have reports of a still more alarming episode.
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2 Responses to “This Time, the Americans Have Gone Too Far!: The Frontier Post, Pakistan”
This is just another example of how the Bush Doctrine will continue to haunt Middle East policy for years. Poor civilians in the tribal areas and, now regretfully, across the country will continue to pay the price for the purge of extremist in Pakistan. It would have been much easier to have grabbed them in Afghanistan seven years ago instead of running off to Iraq. We and our Pakistani allies find ourselves fighting both the war of public opinion and bullets. Those wars along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan will require much more blood and treasure today than they would have seven years ago. This is true because they can not be won without the help of the kind of people who wrote this article. As I read the article, I begin to understand the daunting task at hand.
On the one hand, the US government talks about winning hearts and minds, but on the other, they are willing to strip the people of Pakistan – their dignity and sovereignty while conniving with crooks like Zardari who they conspired to power through the NRO (yes – Musharraf was duped as he wanted to hang onto power as President). The arrogant statements made by American officials regarding internal Pakistan affairs display their mindset. The incident in Islamabad is not at all surprising to me.
History proves that the US has never been a reliable ally and countries are better off when they can keep the CIA operatives within US Embassies at arms length (by restricting American personnel and their involvement in the country). The huge expansion of the US Embassy in Islamabad and the addition of a thousand personnel raises enormous alarm bells.
As long as patriotic Pakistanis (ones willing to sacrifice personally) do not unite and stand up to the American dictates, which are getting more and more intrusive, our future will remain bleak as a sovereign nation.