The Obama Administration has reportedly given Pakistan an ultimatum, demanding that they launch yet more military offensives against the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) “within weeks.”
The demands were issued by a high ranking US delegation which recently visited Pakistan, including National Security Advisor James Jones and CIA Director Leon Panetta, who claimed to have conclusive proof that the TTP was behind the failed Times Square car bombing.
Pakistan has committed hundreds of thousands of soldiers to assorted wars in its northern tribal areas, almost exclusively as a result of previous US demands to do so. The offensives have killed thousands and displaced millions of Pakistani civilians from their homes, fueling resentment of the US across the nation.
The US has most recently been haranguing Pakistan to launch an offensive in North Waziristan, though publicly they have insisted the timing of the invasion was up to Pakistan’s government. It seems however that this is no longer the case, as officials say Pakistan is now “on a clock” to obey the US edict.
Yet the value of the North Waziristan offensive is unclear amid reports that the bulk of the TTP forces have already left the agency and returned to South Waziristan, the target of a previous US-demanded invasion late last year.
For Pakistan the issue is difficult, as the government is already under fire for being too beholden to the Obama Administration and the military is already stretched to its limit fighting several wars in the north while trying to maintain a presence along its ever-hostile border with rival India.
"If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. Such a definition would include what is most important, for, on the one hand, finance capital is the bank capital of a few very big monopolist banks, merged with the capital of the monopolist associations of industrialists; and, on the other hand, the division of the world is the transition from a colonial policy which has extended without hindrance to territories unseized by any capitalist power, to a colonial policy of monopolist possession of the territory of the world, which has been completely divided up. "
V.I.Lenin
Lenin, the prototypical egg-headed, soulless, shiite spewing politician. He couldn't say it simply because that would lower him to the level of his "useful idiots".
This is a tragedy that Pakistan has lost everything due to unreliable friend US. US is just like a prostite which sells for highest prise but Pakistan is selling itself for nothing and demand will continue from us to kill the Pakistanis as much as you can from your own bloody army generals and these corrupt politicians, civil and military bureaucrats will have to obey as they are characterless creatures whose sons and daughters, their capital and investment is in the west and they know how to deal with them. Americans are doing nothing good with Pakistan, they have destroyed our economy, security terrorism carried out by CIA and blackwater
Why do they hate us? It's a mystery.
Wonderful foreign policy, eh? Obama's ultimatum to Pakistan: kill, maim, and displace more of your own people, or we'll stop bribing you with borrowed money.
Do you think the Nobel Committee is having second thoughts about their Peace Prize selection?
jeez…….Can Northpolians think twice,I don't think so Steve.
They were wrong in the first thought when out of nowhere they deemed it so human righteously necessary to reward AFRO-BAMA.If they wanted US prez visit their unknown country on map.Well what better opportunity can they have besides inviting and awarding Criminals.Shame on them for wasting such prestigious award on this remake of Bush..
or what?
at what point does making America mad seem to be a better idea than fighting a viscious internal civil war at America's urging.
and what then?
America has a new enemy with 170,000,000 people and nuclear weapons.
we should play nice.
Obama's playing "Whack a Mole"
Of course the guerrillas have already moved on. That's basic guerrilla strategy 101. You expose your position a bit to launch an attack, but you are already abandoning that exposed position when the attack takes place.
If you are fighting a big, slow empire that takes months to respond, they just hit air when they finnally launch their PR offensive against the places you abandoned months ago.
All this is going to do is to kill and maime a lot of people.
I strongly believe it is time for common Pakistani to rise to the occasion and for any price they may pay,should wage war against those CONTRACTORS who has been selling this country and its people for the last 63 years.Enough is Enough.We are ashamed of our each and every so called Institution that make it the buliding blocks for directing countries for some kind better future.the Parliament which is full of sole lickers from colonial era now known as respectable Politicians,Bureaucrates who still follow the simplest of guidlines from British Laws(only for asia).
Our judiciary that has to still blossom,God knows how many more centuries need for that to happen and security agencies including Army who by the way invaded and conquered their own country Pakistan in 1958(Gen Ayub Khan first Martial Law),just 11 year after its inception.So basically we are still an Occupied Nation.We needto get rid of the Criminals in uniforms or without uniform.Then we will see how better we as an independent Nation deal with US or others.but first it our own backyard needed to be cleaned and there can't be better time than this.
God bless us all.
ALL I can think of is Indonesia, Ploesti Romania, North Africa, British Iraq and Iran, circa World War II. It's all about the oil with the US military being the single largest user of Petroleum products. The shoe is on the other foot isn't it?