Thank you for posting that video,
yashchauhan. As an American, it is both informative and depressing.
No doubt my country can act both heavy handed and we are often ignorant of local culture, religion and ideas, that are so different from our own. Whether we have helped to foster these conspiratorial ideas which apparently are so widely believed in by Pakistanis, the fact is that those who believe in them are deceiving and diverting attention away from Pakistan's true problems and simply blaming the United States in the same way that some people in the world blame the "Zionists" for all their own problems.
It needs to be understood, even though those who seek to spin conspiracies do not want it to be, that America would prefer to have nothing to do with the region. I don't mean that in the sense that Americans don't like the people of the region, it's just that Americans were far removed from it's problems and concerns and frankly, we just don't understand so much of the history and values of the region and are concerned about living our own lives in America without becoming too involved in places that we simply do not understand.
9-11-2001 changed all of that. The
only reason we are actively in the region and the cause of so much controversy and rage, the
only reason that all of these missteps by us and conflicts involving us occur, is because of the
growth of international terror that is based in Islamic extremism. That may be something that some may not want to hear, but it is as clear and truthful a statement of my country's position as I can give.
The United States will never allow itself to be disengaged in those areas of the world that the terrorists use as a base of operations and they very much would like to topple Pakistan and use it. They very much would like to get their hands on nuclear weapons as well. America cannot let that happen. We will not. We want good relations and we should treat all other countries with respect but we
will not,
ever allow the demand for good relations to cause us to sit on our back-sides while other countries are used as bases of terror to launch attacks on my country.
It is not complicated. If there were no terrorists groups who target my country who use Afghanistan and Pakistan as a base of support and refuge then America would largely disappear from the region and our relationship would normalise. That will not happen until those countries that the terrorists use clean up their own houses. People like
Zaid Hamid can blame America all they want, but Pakistan, Afghanistan and others will continue to be used by everyone until real effective representative governments are in place in those countries. Until those countries government's have rooted out corruption and they stop blaming America and the the "Zionists" for all their problems and start looking at themselves. Until their governments start providing a growing economy and opportunity for their people, until the get serious about education and jobs, until they get serious about democracy and law enforcement without corruption. Until they get serious about cracking down on those who would use a respected and beautiful faith in God as a base of support for murder and terror instead.
