With America’s military effort in Central Asia large and growing, one of its largest diplomatic efforts is centered around convince key ally Pakistan to escalate its own war more and more.
But though the US and Pakistani governments seem destined to be allies in the endless war against assorted militant factions, they have very different ideas about how this war should be fought.
Both support Taliban negotiations, but while the US and other Western powers seek to bring the low ranking militants on board to undermine the power of the leadership, Pakistan wants them to negotiate with the Taliban’s leadership to end the disastrous war on their northern border.
That border is at issue too. Pakistan’s government has had to pull its troops increasingly away from the northern border to shore up its defenses along the Indian border, and to fight all the wars the US has pressured them into. At the same time, the US strategy has them pulling their troops off the border too and focusing on controlling population centers. Both like their strategies, but are irked that the other side is leaving the border so shoddily patrolled.
US officials have sought to downplay their differences of opinion, but increasingly it is spilling over into Pakistani public dialogue in the form of growing distrust of the US and its goals. It is not lost on them that they were largely able to ignore discontent in their tribal areas and focus on their long-standing feud with India before the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan, which has put much of Pakistan into a state of civil war.
Eventually America has to face that our "ally in the forefront of war against terrorism", Pakistan, was only interested in this alliance as long as the dollars kept flowing in and the military junta just set on their arse. Now they have to fight against the very band of thugs the junta created and the true colors have begin to show. The media, public and the band of terrorists is controlled by the Paki military thugs. This "war" that Pakis are supposedly fighting is just "song and dance" by the Paki military junta for Western public consumption. It will never reach the logical conclusion that America expects.
Seems like the war in Pakistan is real enough to the millions of refugees. How much should the Pakistanis have to tear their own country apart to fight "terrorism?"
That is exactly the point I am making. "Movement of refugees" is the part of the paki song and dance". These rag tag refugees shunted from one place to another means more American refugee aid and publicity in the Western media as to how "arm in arm" with the West Pakis are fighting war against "terrorists". At the same time Paki army controlled media have ramped up the noise that Paki is fighting an "American war" ! Dear fellow, the epicenter of terrorism was never Iraq, it was Pakistan and Pak created Taliban that controlled Afghanistan. Give it a little time and you will find that Pakis are not "tearing their own country" but blowing dust in Western eyes.
Just remember, Pakistan as an Islamic nation, and want to prove they are more royal than the king (Saudi Arabia). Pak wants what Osama bin Ladan wants, an Islamic Caliphate around the world !.