Editorial: Hagel and India; the Terror-State | PKKH.tv
PKKH Editorial
US Senator and Secretary of Defense Nominee Chuck Hagel has said in 2011 that “India for some time has always used Afghanistan as a second front, and India has over the years financed problems for Pakistan on that side of the border,”
Hagel’s comments have sent waves of chargin and unrest in the Indian state and civil community. Though Hagel has been critical upon several US policy matters before, but the release of such a statement when he is going to be elected Secretary of Defense and at a sensitive time when the 2014 withdrawal is at hand, and when India is already buried in the quick-sand of squander and anxiety, and that too from a friend that used to call it, ‘it’s lynchpin’ and its ‘beloved beholder of democratic values’, is a matter of shame indeed.
One can reckon Hagel to be a straight forward, man-of-courage, by observing his opinion on other matters too, where he has been criticizing the role of the US government to be anti-democratic and dangerous for the American people.
On Israel Hagel said, ‘Israel is on its way to becoming an apartheid state’ during an April 9, 2010, appearance at Rutgers University. He also accused Israel of violating UN resolutions, called for US-designated terrorist organization Hamas*to be included in any peace negotiations, and described Prime Minister*Benjamin Netanyahu*as a ‘radical’ in the same speech.
On Iran too, Hagel has been quiet blunt, he said ‘Iran supports terrorists, they support Hezbollah, they’ve got their tentacles wrapped around every problem in the Middle East that is anti-Israel, anti- the United States. Those are realities. Those are facts’.
So what is the real implication of such a statement from Hagel about India at such a time? Is it just a forgo-able statement that will down under the layers of time; or is it something that has nothing to do with the US foreign policy and India should not be alarmed; or is it the bitter lesson India had to learn!
It had been a bitter lesson for many Empires that had hastened their armor up to Afghanistan, but those who refuse to learn from history, fall not only into defeat but also into embarrassment. The British, the Russian, the American and now also the Indian, have proven themselves unworthy by letting themselves be beaten in the barren terrain of the ragged Afghans.
But it is more than bitter; it is venomous: to be boosted up with dreams of regional supremacy, economic expansion and a chance of getting to entrap an arch rival from all sides and on top of that to be placed on a high-table of applaud in the global community; as the best friend of the US, its Lynchpin, its democratic equal; and then all of a sudden to be thrown down as a cause of all troubles, a sponsor of terror from the beginning!
Pakistan has learned bitter lessons before, Pakistan had been voicing its grievance with the United States at several fronts, reminding it of its betrayal with Pakistan after the Afghan-Russia war, reminding it of its betrayal in using Pakistan’s resources and routes for its WoT and dis-acknowledging it as an ally in all practical ways. The sensible community of Pakistan has always known that ‘America is nobody’s friend’, the US foreign policy based on one golden rule, ‘never take a second thought in ditching an un-useful friend, because time is precious’.
And so it has happened, the US was running out of time; it needed to secure its own retreat; it had lost the war and has to kneel down to the wishes of those whom it was calling the ‘terrorist’ and the ‘abettors of terrorist’ before; it cannot ask the Afghans to let them leave safely and let India rule in their stead; but rather what they have to do now is call ‘bad’ whatever the Taliban’s call ‘bad’. So the Americans, who were calling the Pakistanis, ‘harborers’ and ‘exporters’ of terror around the world, are going to call India just that; this may be a joke for some, but for poor India it would be like sweeping the grounds from right under their feet.
But the irony of the matter is that India has been terrorizing our tribal areas and our cities, playing their Holi with the blood of our innocent civilians. The truth is that the imperialist avarice has been allowed too long to desecrate the nobility of humanity; India has gone too far in its hatred for Pakistan, it has made the killing of Muslims legitimate upon itself in and across its borders. Let justice be brought to India, and let the un-lettered Afghans make their own lists of repayments, as India is left alone, with no NATO, no US friendship and only the bare-foot Afghans all around.
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PKKH Editorial
US Senator and Secretary of Defense Nominee Chuck Hagel has said in 2011 that “India for some time has always used Afghanistan as a second front, and India has over the years financed problems for Pakistan on that side of the border,”
Hagel’s comments have sent waves of chargin and unrest in the Indian state and civil community. Though Hagel has been critical upon several US policy matters before, but the release of such a statement when he is going to be elected Secretary of Defense and at a sensitive time when the 2014 withdrawal is at hand, and when India is already buried in the quick-sand of squander and anxiety, and that too from a friend that used to call it, ‘it’s lynchpin’ and its ‘beloved beholder of democratic values’, is a matter of shame indeed.
One can reckon Hagel to be a straight forward, man-of-courage, by observing his opinion on other matters too, where he has been criticizing the role of the US government to be anti-democratic and dangerous for the American people.
On Israel Hagel said, ‘Israel is on its way to becoming an apartheid state’ during an April 9, 2010, appearance at Rutgers University. He also accused Israel of violating UN resolutions, called for US-designated terrorist organization Hamas*to be included in any peace negotiations, and described Prime Minister*Benjamin Netanyahu*as a ‘radical’ in the same speech.
On Iran too, Hagel has been quiet blunt, he said ‘Iran supports terrorists, they support Hezbollah, they’ve got their tentacles wrapped around every problem in the Middle East that is anti-Israel, anti- the United States. Those are realities. Those are facts’.
So what is the real implication of such a statement from Hagel about India at such a time? Is it just a forgo-able statement that will down under the layers of time; or is it something that has nothing to do with the US foreign policy and India should not be alarmed; or is it the bitter lesson India had to learn!
It had been a bitter lesson for many Empires that had hastened their armor up to Afghanistan, but those who refuse to learn from history, fall not only into defeat but also into embarrassment. The British, the Russian, the American and now also the Indian, have proven themselves unworthy by letting themselves be beaten in the barren terrain of the ragged Afghans.
But it is more than bitter; it is venomous: to be boosted up with dreams of regional supremacy, economic expansion and a chance of getting to entrap an arch rival from all sides and on top of that to be placed on a high-table of applaud in the global community; as the best friend of the US, its Lynchpin, its democratic equal; and then all of a sudden to be thrown down as a cause of all troubles, a sponsor of terror from the beginning!
Pakistan has learned bitter lessons before, Pakistan had been voicing its grievance with the United States at several fronts, reminding it of its betrayal with Pakistan after the Afghan-Russia war, reminding it of its betrayal in using Pakistan’s resources and routes for its WoT and dis-acknowledging it as an ally in all practical ways. The sensible community of Pakistan has always known that ‘America is nobody’s friend’, the US foreign policy based on one golden rule, ‘never take a second thought in ditching an un-useful friend, because time is precious’.
And so it has happened, the US was running out of time; it needed to secure its own retreat; it had lost the war and has to kneel down to the wishes of those whom it was calling the ‘terrorist’ and the ‘abettors of terrorist’ before; it cannot ask the Afghans to let them leave safely and let India rule in their stead; but rather what they have to do now is call ‘bad’ whatever the Taliban’s call ‘bad’. So the Americans, who were calling the Pakistanis, ‘harborers’ and ‘exporters’ of terror around the world, are going to call India just that; this may be a joke for some, but for poor India it would be like sweeping the grounds from right under their feet.
But the irony of the matter is that India has been terrorizing our tribal areas and our cities, playing their Holi with the blood of our innocent civilians. The truth is that the imperialist avarice has been allowed too long to desecrate the nobility of humanity; India has gone too far in its hatred for Pakistan, it has made the killing of Muslims legitimate upon itself in and across its borders. Let justice be brought to India, and let the un-lettered Afghans make their own lists of repayments, as India is left alone, with no NATO, no US friendship and only the bare-foot Afghans all around.
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