Calling on Pakistanis to take a stand, now.
It is interesting how human beings are willing to ignore the obvious because of the way the obvious is portrayed. International media networks now have such an immense impact on the way citizens the world over perceive world affairs that it is easy to miss the meaning of what is really happening in front of our eyes.
In the space of the last 12 months, the United States has invaded Afghanistan, and is now effectively colonising it. Its soldiers are slowly securing every last inch of Afghan soil. It will take a long time to undo what the United States had itself created in Afghanistan. The now renegade mujahideen – once backed by the US – are practised in the art of guerrilla warfare. But, rest assured, the United States will not rest till it has conquered all. The charade is preserved through the savvy puppet president that the US has installed to run the country (the only thing he runs right now is a part of Kabul). The promise of a democratic Afghanistan is held out to the world, and the colonisation is seen as liberation.
The Bush team is now wooing Americans with the delicious prospect of war on Iraq. The foreign policy think-tanks in Washington DC that clearly influence the direction of the American establishment are hatching grand plans for a post-war scenario in which Iraq and Jordan become one big, happy, Sunni and therefore, anti-Iran, kingdom. The colonisation continues, with King Abdullah tipped to be Hamid Karzai's counterpart a little further west. Here, too, the promise is of a democratic and friendly Iraq, made more tempting with the slightly more exaggerated hope of a democratic West Asia.