Pakistan: The War of Drones

WHAT USA SEEKS TO DESTROY

Nation

21 June 2002

A.H Amin

The three cardinal attributes of today's geopolitics are
"globalisation", "non ideological international themes" and "emphasis on
economics" rather than "ideological conflict" as the key theme in
international relations. It is another thing that below the surface
"ideology remains a key issue", "the desire to enslave smaller or weaker
states by larger or stronger states" remains the key issue and
"globalisation" is but another name of capitalism practiced at a global
scale.

The so called unipolar system also has limitations and is being
repeatedly challenged, if not conventionally, then unconventionally as
proved by events of 9/11. The famous philosopher Toffler may have
re-defined power but human nature remains the same as it was 2,500 years
ago. US Think Tanks and so called experts may advance subtle theses but
the underlying conflict is the same i.e. a West which adopted Eastern
Christianity and refashioned it as per Barbarian ideals versus an East
with a different mindset and a different set of values.

The international capitalist order was challenged by French Revolution
and the Communist Revolution in Russia but the power of the
imperialistic exploiters could not be broken. Nonetheless without USSR
military aid the Arabs could not have survived Israeli hegemonism. This
is an irrefutable historical reality.

Long ago the West's present dilemma was summed up by one of its greatest
historian Gibbon in the following words "Yet this apparent security
should not tempt us to forget that new enemies and unknown dangers may
possibly arise from some obscure people, scarcely visible in the map of
the world". In the same paragraph Gibbon cited the example of the Arabs
who had "languished in poverty and contempt" till the advent of Islam
when in Gibbon's words Islam" breathed into those same bodies the soul
of enthusiasm".

When modern US thinkers with links with US State decision making and
analytical bodies state with confidence that "ideology is no longer
fashionable" and that "international terrorism" is the key issue who are
they fooling. If this line of thinking is to be followed, whenever any
White Man or a Jewish man dies it is terrorism while whenever any non
White or Muslim dies this is casualty inflicted in sheer self defence in
the war against terrorism. A stooge is a man who was protected by USSR
and a King or Emir or a president protected by US Forces or US aid is a
perfect patriot.

Take the "Firebombing of Tokyo" on the fateful night of 9/10 March 1945.
On that night the US Airforce in the proud words of an American writer
"conducted the most destructive air raid in history". Sixteen square
miles of Tokyo were destroyed and some 83,793 Japanese civilian were
killed mostly by third degree burns while some 40,918 were injured. A US
General proudly exclaimed "It made a lot of sense to kill skilled
workers". Compare this with US position on 9/11. If for a moment we
accept that 9/11 was a great outrage in which some 3,000 were killed not
all of them skilled, what was Tokyo Raid of March 1945?

There is a subtle motivation here. An ulterior geopolitical agenda. The
West still fears ideology which it abandoned after 1945 in favour of
shameless materialism. It fears men who cannot be bought, who have no
fear for the tomorrow, who cannot be stopped by a NATO or the wide
Atlantic or wider Pacific. USSR may have been a more synthetic state but
the men motivated to die without motivated by the CIA pumped dollar via
Silent Soldiers is a more dangerous specie. Enters the Asian and African
Collaborator Regimes. Liberal Presidents, subtle Emirs, Egalitarian
Kings, all mustered like Sepoy Jahan Khan in the First World War to
fight the War against Terror. The Soviets were more naïve if less
morally defective than the American decision makers. The Americans seek
to accomplish enslavement through more sophisticated methods. Thus one
of their intellectuals states in an article that "unlike centuries past,
when war was the great arbiter, today the most interesting type of power
do not come out of the barrel of the gun".

Today this man says "there is a much bigger pay off in getting others to
want what you want". And there is no shortage of collaborators,
ambitious men who usurped power whether it was after the downfall of
Ottoman Empire with British or French money or in Egypt or Pakistan or
in Indonesia.

Somewhere deep inside the US decision makers are at a loss to admit as
to how with a 30 Billion USD intelligence budget, 13 Federal
Organisations dealing with Intelligence and some 30,000 eavesdroppers
employed by USA's National Security Agency was the Al Qaeda able to
strike. Compare 30 Billion USD per year spent since two decades with may
be 4 Billion USD lost in 9/11. If the East or the Islamic World has any
edge over the West it is in willingness to sacrifice rather than
materialism and selfishness.

What the West and particularly the USA fears is not nuclear weapons but
men motivated by ideology. Men who cannot be bought like the so many
Emirs, Kings and Military Presidents from Morocco till Pakistan.

The world has not changed from Gibbons' times. The New Barbarians as the
USA sees the Muslim radicals are more dangerous because they cannot be
bought. Because they have operational talent and strategic acumen.
Because they do not beg like Sadat for a Camp David but fight with their
limbs rather than Stingers. What the US seeks is destruction of ideology
which as per one theme presently floated in the so called prestigious
National Defence College at Islamabad is no longer fashionable.

This is the Clash of Civilisation and will continue till this world
exists or till the USA discovers a new planet where human beings can
survive and to which the Americans will migrate after all the mineral
resources of this world are exhausted and we are left to die without
water or fuel.

If this is so and if low intensity war is the only way in which the
conventionally weaker forces can defeat the conventionally stronger
forces then so be it. If extremism in thought or ideology is out of
fashion and out of favour with USA and its camp followers, so be it. If
we are in any case condemned to be sub humans in a world order dominated
by the G-7 and have no other recourse but to fight with bomb, dagger or
suicide explosive pack then so be it.

Jala kay Mashal-i-Jaan, Hum Junoon-Sifaat Chalay. Jo Ghar ko aag lagaay,
hamarey saath chalay.

Zee,

What Tamils in Pakistan?

U r calling for more destruction in Pakistan. Arent u? Prove me wrong.

#31 Posted by pavocavalry

Our enemies are very peaceful as Carl Von Clausewitz said long ago.They want to conquer us without war.

Haha ... brilliant! I hope the author of this article reads this comment.

#34 Posted by VRV,

You didn't answer my question.

Which book do the Tamils read?

Murtids dont read these things .They have no concept of the warriors who wage the sabres of paradise.

Like a Blossom today , Then scattered , Life is so like a delicate flower , how can one expect the fragrance to last forever ,

Like cherry blossoms in the spring , we fall clean and radiant

Admiral Onishi
Imperial Japanese Airforce
Commander Kamikaze Pilots

This universe is so vast and man so insignificant , that a man's existence can only be justified by the measure of his sacrifice

Pilot Officer V.A
Last letter to his mother
Battle of Britain 1940

Tamil Hindus read Tirukkural
Tamil Christains read Bible
Tamil Muslims read Qoran &
Tamil non-believrs read Communits Manifesto
(LTTE is a Marxist organisation).

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From ur post 9:

'I remember I had sent out a memo to use remote-controlled IED's instead after the objections following the 'Pindi medicos bus attack!'

Why these middle class employees of the Govt are scapegoats 4 u?

Have some mercy on these guys. If u can direct ur men to GHQ and Whitehouse.

Suicide atttacks achieve precious little in the end…. The enemy gets hardened… and can beat the suicide bombers….. LTTE has been using suicide bombing for lat 20 years….. today they look farthest from achieving their “Ealam”

In the long run suicide attacks add up to a little

what the USA is trying to do is to introduce a confusion of principle , they are propagating to all anti US forces that suicide bombings are not good ! Why because its such an expensive weapon against which the USA has absolutely no antidote !

what the USA is trying to do is to introduce a confusion of principle , they are propagating to all anti US forces that suicide bombings are not good ! Why because its such an expensive weapon against which the USA has absolutely no antidote !

The Tamils will win ! Who says they have lost !

Hats off to Tamils !

pavo,

Without India's nod they are not going to get anything.

I hope that India has a strategic vision and supports Balkanisation of all their neighbours ! If not then RAWs building should be OKLAHOMISED in the Professional Timothy Mc Veigh fashion.

pavo,

Be our Timothy Veigh. We have a lethal injection ready 4 u.

RAW is not as powerful as ISI is! They dont have a vision of their own as CIA or ISI had for any region in the world. They are employees with good operational freedom. They dont frame policies nor they advise/dictate - as it happens in the US - to the Head of Govt.

pavo..

Lankans seem to have a upper hand now..... even if ealan happens in the future it may not be under LTTE

#38 Posted by VRV,

(LTTE is a Marxist organisation).

Ok good!

Now you said in #29 "They never realise that their mindset or puritanical religion created those facilities...."

Next question: Which Marxist Doctrine constitutes a puritanical religion 'creating those facilities'?