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Pak being set up' but civil-military leadership remains silent
By Shireen M Mazari Hillary Clinton has once again come into her own true self and issued a direct threat to Pakistan of severe consequences' if the terror attack of Times Square New York City had been successful and found to have definitively originated in Pakistan. It brings to mind an earlier moment when Hillary, during the course of her unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, had responded to a question on whether she would use tactical nuclear weapons against Pakistan in the context of a terror attack linked to Pakistan and she unhesitatingly declared Yes'! She was also right up there with Bush on the question of the Iraq war until she realised how unpopular it was becoming within her own country. So she is very much in the same mould as Condi Rice! However, her latest threat has established without an iota of doubt the larger US game plan for Pakistan, and the issue is not what the US plans to do so much as what our leadership is doing or not doing to protect itself from this increasingly threatening US agenda. But first some serious questions that our leadership and our normally verbose Ambassador to Washington should have raised in the immediate aftermath of the Faisal Shahzad episode, which is beginning to look more and more like a deliberately created incident to suck Pakistan into not only doing the US bidding vis a vis North Waziristan but also to provide a scenario which would allow more US forces into the country and move the US further into forcibly taking control of our nuclear assets. Why should one presume the whole incident was created? First: How come the explosion did not go off? Two: How come such an easy trail of evidence was laid to track Faisal Shahzad? Three: How come, he confessed to everything so easily and immediately? Four: How come the US immediately, as if already prepared, began demanding permission for more troops into Pakistan? Five: How come the CIA immediately announced more drone attacks on Pakistan? In other words, things moved in an almost synchronized manner in succession that they had to have been pre-planned. Six: Why are the US government and media paying no heed to Shahzads alleged connection to the Yemeni cleric and to the Talibans clear denial of any link to Shahzad? Posted by: john frum 2010-05-09 |
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