While listening to Radio 4 this morning a C.I.A.operative (with particular interest
in the Hindu Kush, Pakistan's North West Frontier).This man has just come out
and said what those of us who had studied these things knew all along,that the
Pakistani Security Agency the O.S.I. were along with the Taliban responsible
for the Bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul Afghanistan.
This I am afraid has gone on for far too long, like the time when
the same O.S.I. officers gave O.B.L. warning of the impending Cruise Missile
strike against the Al Quaeda during Clinton's terms in office.While George Bush
rushed many $ Billions of Dollars worth of "free" F16 Fighting Falcon Aircraft and
all the very latest night vision,and Laser Technology for blinding ones opponent
without ever firing a shot!!.This all begs the question with "friends" like these
who "really" needs any enemies???.This is however very very small fry when one
does consider that Pakistan is a fully armed and ready Nuclear Power (GULP).
Never mind ****ing around with Iran, Pakistan already has them!.They also have a rather worried very near neighbour called India (who also "yes"you did
guess correctly is also a very very fully paid up member of the Atomic Club!.
I suppose you all know where this text is headed,like Will
Smith in "I Robot, where he say "I told you so" doesn't really cover it does it?.
How the hell is the World to manage a Pakistan and let's say a Saudi Fundam
-entalist revolution?? what would we do should these two critical Countries
got taken over by Osama Bin Laden in Saudi,and let's say a Pakistan taken
over by Mullah Omar (wouldn't that be just great).There are those amongst
us who knew all along that the O.S.I. founded the Taliban to fight the Russian
invasion of the Afghan Oil and Gas reserves ( er sorry that was meant to read
home soil).I would imagine that if President Bush (who lets fact it has utterly
blinded himself toward the real threat,which he claims comes from a Nuclear
Iran.It doesn't it comes from Pakistan).What are we to do??,these frontier
states are totally ungovernable also the entire population detests the West.
They always have done,we the English couldn't get the better of them in
nearly a hundred years of trying the Hindu Kush was always the gateway to
the valleys of death to outsiders.Also what kind of a Pakistani Government
would be needed to help us really defeat the fundamentalists??.The present
incumbent Musharaff dares not go too far,and so far his slight of hand attack
upon the trouble-makers has had very limited success.Like right through it's
troubled and very violent history the frontier states of north west Pakistan
still have a vast ammount of death to dish out our way.
There is also the alto view to take into account,the real and
never ending grinding poverty of these areas are bound to lead to the ones at
the bottom of the heap building up hatred and resentment,I was once watch
-ing one of their Village Elders explaining why the young men of the area go
and join the Taliban and Al Qaeda.The elder said it was simply a matter of the
economic situation and the desperate fight for life in an area where infant and
adult mortality are still at Middle Ages levels.The young men were talking
among themselves they were discussing Terminator Three (the rise of the
machines) mainly though they were talking about the $ 25 million dollars paid
to the star amongst other things.Should anybody ever care to take a long
objective look at this situation and you would find that "Poverty" like this and
at this level is "the" most corrupting thing today in all our societies.These
people have starved to death,they have watched their young die from very
preventable illnesses all for the sake of some development money and some
Schools and Hospitals getting built for them,it would seem that Osama Bin
Laden knows what bothers these people and they are all with him all the way.
Where-ever that takes the World we once knew.