Pakistan and "The Haqqani Network":
The Latest Orchestrated Threat to America and The End of History
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26797
Global Research, September 27, 2011
Have
you ever before heard of the Haqqanis? I didn’t think so. Like Al
Qaeda, about which no one had ever heard prior to 9/11, the “Haqqani
Network” has popped up in time of need to justify America’s next
war--Pakistan.
President Obama’s claim that he had Al Qaeda leader
Osama bin Laden exterminated deflated the threat from that long-serving
bogyman. A terror organization that left its leader, unarmed and
undefended, a sitting duck for assassination no longer seemed
formidable. Time for a new, more threatening, bogyman, the pursuit of
which will keep the “war on terror” going.
Now America’s “worst enemy” is the Haqqanis.
Moreover, unlike Al Qaeda, which was never tied to a country, the
Haqqani Network, according to Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US
Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a “veritable arm” of the Pakistani
government’s intelligence service, ISI. Washington claims that the ISI
ordered its Haggani Network to attack the US Embassy in Kabul,
Afghanistan, on September 13 along with the US military base in Wadak
province.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Armed
Services committee and one of the main Republican warmongers, declared
that “all options are on the table” and gave the Pentagon his assurance
that in Congress there was broad bipartisan support for a US military
attack on Pakistan.
As Washington has been killing large numbers of
Pakistani civilians with drones and has forced the Pakistani army to
hunt for Al Qaeda throughout most of Pakistan, producing tens of
thousands or more of dislocated Pakistanis in the process, Sen. Graham
must have something larger in mind.
The Pakistani government thinks so, too. The
Pakistani prime minister,Yousuf Raza Gilani, called his foreign minister
home from talks in Washington and ordered an emergency meeting of the
government to assess the prospect of an American invasion.
Meanwhile, Washington is rounding up additional
reasons to add to the new threat from the Haqqanis to justify making war
on Pakistan: Pakistan has nuclear weapons and is unstable and the nukes
could fall into the wrong hands; the US can’t win in Afghanistan until
it has eliminated sanctuaries in Pakistan; blah-blah.
Washington has been trying to bully Pakistan into
launching a military operation against its own people in North
Waziristan. Pakistan has good reasons for resisting this demand.
Washington’s use of the new “Haqqani threat” as an invasion excuse could
be Washington’s way of overcoming Pakistan’s resistance to attacking
its North Waziristan provence, or it could be, as some Pakistani
political leaders say, and the Pakistani government fears, a “drama”
created by Washington to justify a military assault on yet another
Muslim country.
Over the years of its servitude as an American
puppet, the Pakistan government has brought this on itself. Pakistanis
let the US purchase the Pakistan government, train and equip its
military, and establish CIA interface with Pakistani intelligence. A
government so dependent on Washington could say little when Washington
began violating its sovereignty, sending in drones and special forces
teams to kill alleged Al Qaeda, but usually women, children, and
farmers. Unable to subdue after a decade a small number of Taliban
fighters in Afghanistan, Washington has placed the blame for its
military failure on Pakistan, just as Washington blamed the long
drawn-out war on the Iraqi people on Iran’s alleged support for the
Iraqi resistance to American occupation.
Some knowledgeable analysts’ about whom you will
never hear in the “mainstream media,” say that the US military/security
complex and their neoconservative whores are orchestrating World War III
before Russia and China can get prepared. As a result of the communist
oppression, a signifiant percentage of the Russian population is in the
American orbit. These Russians trust Washington more than they trust
Putin. The Chinese are too occupied dealing with the perils of rapid
economic growth to prepare for war and are far behind the threat.
War, however, is the lifeblood of the profits of the
military/security complex, and war is the chosen method of the
neoconservatives for achieving their goal of American hegemony.
Pakistan borders China and former constituent parts
of the Soviet Union in which the US now has military bases on Russia’s
borders. US war upon and occupation of Pakistan is likely to awaken the
somnolent Russians and Chinese. As both possess nuclear ICBMs, the
outcome of the military/security complex’s greed for profits and the
neoconservatives’ greed for empire could be the extinction of life on
earth.
The patriots and super-patriots who fall in with the
agendas of the military-security complex and the flag-waving
neoconservatives are furthering the “end-times” outcome so fervently
desired by the rapture evangelicals, who will waft up to heaven while
the rest of us die on earth.
This is not President Reagan’s hoped for outcome from ending the cold war.
