After Zawahiri it will be Saif ul Adil. After him it will be someone else. And after him someone else. And this will continue till the fabric of Pakistani state would be destroyed with no chance of repair situation.
Areesh you and I have arrived, for a brief moment in time, at the exact same conclusion - albeit we came from very different vantage points and will, no doubt, diverge from here on out.
Per se this is not a reply\retort to you but my point of departure on a subject soon to have grave reprecussions for your region.
I wish I could partake in the joshing at the expense of Secy. Clinton but this is
NO laughing matter.
Allow me to explain myself. Rewind to May 2nd 2011 early Monday morning. A notable event was recorded into the eternity of time & history.
US version: The most powerful nation that this Earth has ever witnessed swooped down on a small hamlet called Abbottabad (the abode of the Abbott) and extinguished a false prophet who had no positive message for the people of the land he used to hide. He abused Pakistani hospitality and naïveté, spilt blood of innocents, women and children; many of them Pakistani. US carefully found a path to her targetted individual, planned for months, used all means at her disposal resolutely, including vast resources, allies, spies, friends, foes, subterfuge, surveillance, decoy, stealth, technology to name a few. US was going to get its mark regardless but US took exceptional care to NOT harm a single Pakistani citizen (who was not associated with Al~Qaeda) in the entire operation. Use of stratagem, secrecy, technology, stealth choppers and best trained units was more to achieve the latter than the former. No matter what actually went into the orchestrating of the Neptune-Spear, history recorded a dead Geronimo in Abbottabad Pakistan with Pakistan Military clueless as to 'what just happened?' despite its protestations. OBL's family recorded in Pakistani court inquisition all the proof that they did live in that house, neighbors corroborated their account. There is a K-2 of evidence at the US's disposal to prove that OBL actually was killed in Abbottabad. OBL was buried at sea at the request of House of Saud as they did not want to accept his body. Photographic evidence of a dead OBL has been with-held so as not to inflame muslim sensiblities. I know that means little in Pakistan as there newspapers post grotesque images of dead people daily without any thought of impact on young minds. There was a calculated risk taken to show to Pakistani people and rest of the World that Pakistani military is not as clever nor as competent as they project themselves for domestic public consumption.(Perhaps.....just perhaps there is no complicity but definite lack of good judgement on the part of Great Kayani).
US almost always prevails in battle (Vietnam & Korea were stalemates and aberrations from the norm) and Obama is determined to drive that message in the Hindu Kush for years to come.
[I reserve the right to speak more candidly on the subject in the future; maybe].
Version on Pakistani street: Whaaat? No? Really? Say it ain't so?!!!! ....silence.......anger....more anger.....denial......flood of conspiracies.
We just had no knowledge......We know that
Clinton, Petraeus, Mullen and other Americans kept saying OBL is on Pakistan but they did not share anything with us.......
Kayani and Pasha went on a frenzied tour of military units explaining themselves, commissions, omissions, apologisms, denials, plausible denials, but no real action whatsoever......
..Kayani sold us out to Americans....OFF with his head.....
.....ISI knew all along...it was a strategic trade-off...Kayani was at battlestations all-night...
........Americans begged permission of the great Kayani and lied about the reason to overfly Pakistan airspace as some training mission.......
............But how dare they violate our sovereignty...US should have shared intel with us before embarking on this mission......It is a lie.......never happened....it is all American propaganda and psyops........US is losing in battlefield and will soon run away.....her economy will shrivel up and like USSR, USA will break up into 50 poor countries needing help from rich chinese.
And for the present moment let us ignore the Indian, Israeli, Afghan, Saudi, Chinese and other versions. Although I am loathe to repond to pointless one-liner replies, I ask my Pak friends to seek out incongruities in my argument\submissive.
More in my later posts.............