<No disrespect Ike but allowing US special forces unfettered access to your country and abandonment of its sovereignty is not particularly confidence building. It smells like desperate measures to control an out of control situation. I truly hope I'm wrong here.>
Dear Condor,
Let me tell you we want to shut up the NYT and Boston Times yellow journalism, now it is allowing and old ally LIKE US that have always asked for help from Mao to ANDORPOV to solve their bigger problems on this end of the world, we do their bidding and survive. We are an artificially created state based on so-called religion Islam, no state based on ideology has survived accept Israel and Pakistan so far, Serb Yugoslavia a federation destined for history, USSR was packed to oblivion, I see no reason for Pakistan a cut out of India to survive unless we play the highest form of politics of survival. What sovereignty, better to live like a self assumed sovereign than to live like a slave in the part where I belonged from. My distant cousins are still in the 16th century in India living under shadow of permanent death and mutilation. People say I have no freedom, I have more freedom than an American I can write down with Musharraf million times as I have done when he usurped power but no bell ever rings late at night in my place, it is the saddest thing that what I read is not what Pakistan is all about. My very openness and freedom is because I think freely and express with my friends with equal potency while I am here, in Europe and US I feel more afraid. My expressions die.
Many powers are out their to see that we are pushed to fragmentation that they think we belong too, we are fighting a last ditch battle for our survival for that we tell the Americans come get them, shut the press with kind of yellow journalism your press preaches. If we co-operate we are told you are not self respecting but this –ucker Saddam is very self respecting but what is the point of self respecting when your economy goes to bankruptcy in no time, the other sucker Arafat sends 100 kids to death a month but what is the point he is not going to make a iota of difference, by terror and killing indiscriminate young Israelis does he get his honour back, I would rather have no honour but to have a single blood of an innocent American on Israeli on my hand. Why should I?
All this talk of self-serving sovereignty when it comes to deal with ‘your’ own survival is nothing; we cannot afford to make 140 million Pakistani into poor wretched Afghanis. Period, for their survival we need to satisfy what it may take the only super power that has the ability to make us Afghanistan. In return we have peace of mind no daisy cutter follow me in my bedroom. I don’t care about my bed room but for bedrooms of millions who live a very ordinary life where existence and death has very weak link. Tell me, we act on the self respect thinking of eye ball to eye ball confrontation and someone from Florida pushes a button to wipe us out, am I crazy to do that, Saddam can be or Mullah Omar can be one another one, I will not, my mother has not born me a nuts to let this self serving notion of respect or sovereignty drive me crazy. It was a Us call that had their intelligence and like in 1963 in case of Gary Powell when we foolishly let him fly from Peshawar to spy on Moscow or in 1956 Seato or Cento, or in 1979 in case of Afghanistan, the total disrespect of sovereignty has been hall mark of Pakistan whereas in case of your new found love with India they have always had great great self respect and sovereignty but I will not have it any day.
There are many powers who want us for historical reason and for our own foolish fixations. The Indians on one hand the Israelis on the other are trying their best to portray ud ass their enemy number one, we are playing here the highest form of politics, come get them. We don’t want our children to be the target of daisy cutters we know them we know the consequences, on this game of politics surrender of sovereignty is a very small price that we are paying. 600,000 man wait to kill us on our eastern border another problem on the
Pakistan Army is and has been the loyalist force to the British. Col Nicholson within 48 hours riding the jawans from Probyn Horse and Guide cavalry reached outskirts of Delhi and crushed the 1857 Mutiny; we call it war of independence. 1 million men between Jhelum and Pindi participated in the Second World War as the most cannon fodder of British Land forces, my father was one of them. 20,000 of them sleep in Soames alone if you ever have a TIME to visit that cemetery.
It is nothing to do with loss of sovereignty it is more to do with not having a false sense of honour about ourselves when we don’t deserve one, when our infant mortality rate is highest in the third world, when in sub-continent our people are trade as animals or below humans as untouchables I would rather have a collar than have a dogs life. When my woman sister are burned to death as sattis I don’t want to do anything with honour or self respect.
Saddam have a great self-respect, he has a big pride but look at what he does. Arafat has a great pride too but what for; self-annihilation is a detestable exercise, to achieve self-determination by self-annihilation is an exercise in futility. Human life is gift of God lets not waste it. It took until Boston tea party that even you guys decided to break the yoke. |
