- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- This is not President Reagan's hoped for outcome from
ending the cold war.
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