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Christine Fair of RAND runs through some of the reasons why militancy has grown in Pakistan despite something like $10 billion in mostly military aid coming from the U.S. since 9/11.
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8 months ago
I wish I had'nt. Your fair demeanour is only skin deep. You are not an intellectual as you bandy about, but it is just that, skin deep, no intellect, Univerity of Chicago notwithstanding.
I wonder how much RAW paid for your Punjabi lessons. You have a distinct Penchant of "defiling" & hurling "Spiteful invectives" about Pak in general & Army in particular. What ever you are peddling, I ain't buying, why? I can smell a Indian Plant against Pashtuns & Punjabis, who still get wet nightmares in the great dehli's "Hinduvata" East Block.
You see, we know what "great game" Hindu is playing in league with the drugie; Karzai. You Americans are so child like, led by your finger by Hindu to ruin in Afghanistan. So, you think if you have your stooge Zardari in a new transactional "Honky Dory" Deliverance in FATA or Afghanistan? consider, three afghan wars, and what did Brits had to show for it? Remember Maiwand? I guess you cannot even find it on Google earth. I recommend that you leave the fighting to real Pashtun men & go back to your Arm Chair Strategies.
Warm Regards,
P.S. Open a branch of RAND, in SWA, (thats South Waziristan Agency, if you were wondering) !
Warrior Pashtun.
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None of the comments I read were deep enough to fully touch the bottom of the problem. people like me believe that whatever has been tried as remedies of the problem has all failed. It is time to go back to the drawing board. No more half measures will suffice. As they popularly say in Pakistan' the dog has fallen into the well, it must be taken out. Merely changing the water will not help'. Or ' When the house is burning, you look for someone to kill the fire rather than looking for a new interior decorator'. Or ' You can change the soap to have a bath but if the water remains infected and filthy, nothing will come out'.
Mr. Obama there is no short or long term solution to this problem. If there is filth and shit heaping up in a closed room and one day the stink overpowers everyone and you open the door to investigate and find cockroache s and lot's of them feeding themselves off the shit. You cry eurika. Problem is visible. You use very strong germicides and kill all those cockroaches. Happy. Close the door again. problem gone. Yes but only just. Very soon the germicides loose their power and the process starts again. because no body cared about the shit/ filth still heaped in the closed room.
No mr. Obama has to take some visionary steps. This Sub Continent is a collection of un natural geographic divisions. You don't need to be Einstine to know this historical fact. Put the whole of subcontinent ( India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh etc.) into it's natural shape and in no time all the problems will disappear. Is this such a novel idea. No sir! The same model was tried 100 years back in the moddle east. Today a common person living in middle east is happy, contented, at peace with himself. Who cares if his country is called UAE or Qatar or what?
Then the same model was tried in Europe after 1945. Today an individual european by and large feel the same as mentioned above for middle east.
Now is the time to apply this twice tested successful model on the region called sub continent. Star working on common man. Create environment for him to exist with self respect, honor, dignity and the problems will vanish. Mr. Obame you may become a legend in your own time.