Bravo!
So nice to see a mature post based on real-politic.
Pakistan with its 200 million population and 1 million West-trained army (with global role that goes back 200 years) could have played a great part in bringing peace in the region. You are correct. our army could have been a huge help in saving masses in Iraq, Afghanistan, and close to home in Pakistan.
Unfortunately they did not. However we cannot just blame the generals.
Remember very few generals are "thinkers" and long term planners. They are not supposed to. It is not part of their training. Generals are trained to respond to calamities, wars, floods, earth quakes etc. Only a handful generals truly become thinkers and planners but then they are usually retired and had had time for introspection. They then sit down, write books, interact with other thinkers, civilians etc and develop their long term strategic views.
So the question is. if Generals cannot be long term thinkers then who would? The answer is "civilian" AND "pro-military" think tanks. These are mostly civilians strategic thinkers who provide vision to a military.
In Pakistan however we never had that partnership between academia and military.
Our academia remained Islamist and leftist, so did our bureaucracy, while military remained the only institution that was pro-West. Few civilians who did write about Pakistan and military turned out to be rabid dogs barking and yelling at the army instead of providing them a comforting longer term vision (I won't name names here as the thread will become derailed).
This created two opposing forces in Pakistan where 99.99% civilian thinkers went leftie, commie pro-Russia and pro-China, and our military went pro-USA.
This deprived our military from civilian apolitical intellectual leadership, and our generals went from crisis to crisis not too different from a chicken with its head cut off.
In other words civilian intellectual leadership was supposed to provide the thinking head, and without that our generals and our army remains a fine fighting force but unfortunately headless.
Even you Sir are yelling at generals even though your heart and mind is in the right place. How will our army get the right intellectual leadership then?
peace
Sir,
I have no access to any security material--- my 6 year old posts on this forum or 10 year old posts in other pak def forums---I have written about u s wanting to do whatsoever in iraq and later---I was not too far off---. It was in plain sight to me what the american goals were at that time.
As I have written a 100 times---pak generals should have realized that---they should have attacked and killed Osama in afghanistan or at the worst on the passes of tora bora.
The moronic mindset of every third world nations is that all of them want to make a vietnam for the united states in their back yards----these imbeciles don't understand---don't want to learn---don't want to know that vietnam was annihilated by the u s bombings.
I put a lots of blame on pakistanis and pakistani generals for the murder of millions of afghan and iraqi muslims at the hands of the american millitary. They both have failed miserably at reading history.
Pakistanis had the oppurtunity of pre-empting on the american plans---killed Osama and his cohorts and sent their heads in a bag to the u s embassy in islamabad.
To this very day---the pakistanis are arguing about how and whats of 9/11 whereas they should have been more concerned with the death misery and destruction that accompanies the u s millityary where ever it lands.
