Opinion Editorials, May 2009

 Zardari-Karzai AFPAK Summit In Washington , D.C.:

AFPAK What?

And AFPAK Whom?

By Ali Al-Hail

ccun.org, May 10, 2009

 
   PakTaliban (Taliban of Pakistan ) and AfTaliban (Taliban of Afghanistan ) are Afpak, as much as Asif Ali Zardari and Hamid Karzai, are. However, the U.S. administration, imagines things differently.
 
   Richard Brook, U.S. new representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan declares both resistance groups, as "Islamist extremists." It's time to remind him and the rest of US-Led-NATO that, they are anti-U.S. occupation-citizens of Pakistan and Afghanistan .
 
   Had they become obedient servants to the US-Led-NATO-murderers of innocent Afpak children, women and unarmed civilians, in the same way Zardari and Karzai are, they would have now been not branded as "Islamic extremists." Isn't that odd. Rather, abnormal.
 
   Has U.S. 'politics' become the art of abnormality? And are U.S. 'politicians' being diagnosed as 'abnormal?' U.S. politics has been long, run that way.
 
   While US air strikes were verified by the Red Cross on Wednesday May 6th, to have killed injured and maimed hundreds of civilians in Farah Province, far Western Afghanistan on Tuesday May 5th, including children and women Hilary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State was meeting the Afpak's presidents in Washington, D.C. Isn't that an 'abnormality?'
 
   Isn't her "deeply, deeply, regret" even a much more worse 'abnormality' plus irony? Isn't her and her boss pledge of greater resources to help "civilians in Pakistan and Afghanistan " and try to avoid "civilian casualties," doesn't quite match up with their actions on the ground? Isn't this yet the mother of all abnormalities?
 
   Furthermore, what kind of puppets are Karzai and Zardari, for Goodness sake? How dare did Karzai thanked Clinton for her "deeply, deeply, regret", while hundreds of his 'supposedly,' country's fellows were killed, wounded and mutilated? He must've watched Afghan children on TVs suffering in greater agony, with U.S. abnormal eyes, i.e., collateral damage!!!
 
   How could he faces his furious people when he comes back from Washington , D.C. ? How could he or his masters at the White House, the U.S. State department and in the Pentagon, have any credibility of any kind?
 
   No wonder was the Taliban's popularity on the rise by every US air strike on Afghan children, women and bewildered citizens. One wonders, how could the US-Led-NATO and its regional puppets defeat Al-Qaeda or Taliban (as they claim in their declared agenda), by killing Afpak children and women? One also, wonders what a sovereignty has Pakistan left with, while US drones breach it almost on a daily basis?
 
   One presumes as do many that, though it's not publicly, known, perhaps the US-Led-NATO's presence in Afghanistan serves the interests of Israel and Israel 's security. Likewise, U.S. presence in Iraq .
 
   Do both Talibans have to accept US-Led-NATO occupation of their countries, to become called "citizens of Pakistan and Afghanistan ?"     
   Do they have to believe in the most ever fraudulent US statement that they are the biggest threat to US and World security, to be honored by the White House in the same way Zardari and Karzai are?
 
   If one accepts such a sheer nonsense, then, "Native Americans" of North America are "Indian extremists", just because they believe that European immigrants have been occupying their lands since 1492 A.C. And because their ancestors were wiped off the North American map by Fascist Europeans.
 
   pursuing the same model by and large, Zionists in modern age murdered and evicted "Native Palestinians" from their lands in Palestine . Both historical subjugations explain the inseparable bond between consecutive U.S. administrations and Zionists of " Israel ."
 
   Consequently, many argue in the U.S. why should U.S. troops lose their lives for unclear vision, despite confusion, denial and concealing. Additionally, U.S. military sources have been talking for sometime, about phenomenal suicides amongst U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan . Other media reports and military sources speak about a sense guilt and stress related factors on part of U.S. military personnel mostly, young, as a result of their performance. Arguably, suicides are found to have surplus those who killed in combats in Iraq and Afghanistan (see for example www.liveleak.com, www.military.com, www.militarytimes.com, www.truthout.org.)            
 
 
Professor, Dr. Ali Al-Hail, Professor of Mass Communication, Twice Fulbright

Award Winner, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Vice-President Of Qatar Fulbright Group, CSR Award Judge and Board Member of AUSACE, ASC, IABD, NEBAA, BEA, IMDA and EAJMC American Associations.
Can be contacted via: a.alhail@yahoo.com