US has finally met the real enemy in Afghanistan!

Wow! It turns out to be America’s primary ally in its fight against terrorism as well.

But then America has known along the duplicitous game that Pakistani State has been playing since 2001. Bush administration just consciously decided to keep it under wraps after forcing Pakistan to join America’s fight under the threat of ‘bombing Pakistan to stone age if Pakistan refused’ by Richard Armitage in 2001.

The seeds of the ‘current Afghan tragedy’ were sowed in Washington when Bush administration decided to allow Musharraf to spirit away by airlift hundreds, if not thousands, of Taliban operatives cornered by the advancing Northern Alliance in Kunduz in November, 2001. Pakistan relocated those Taliban cadres including Mullah Mohammed Omar to Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan (now relocated to Karachi by Pakistani ISI to protect them from possible US drone attacks) and Haqqani network (HQN) to North Waziristan from where Mullah Omar’s QST and Haqqani’s HQN have been planning raids in Afghanistan ever since.

U. S. has deliberately deluded itself about Afghan Taliban’s Pakistani connections in fueling and sustaining Afghan insurgency as reported by Matt Waldman in ‘The sun in the sky‘ on 6/13/2010, corroborated by WikiLeaks leaks on 7/25/2010 and then further corroborated by Chris Alexander, Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005 and Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan from 2005 until 2009 in his article on 7/30/2010 titled ‘The huge scale of Pakistan‘s complicity‘.

Duplicitous Pakistan has U. S. under the barrel of a gun - US can NOT use its aid leverage to force Pakistan to stop supporting terrorist groups who kill US/NATO troops in Afghanistan day in and day out since 2001 because US needs Pakistan’s help in ferrying supplies to those very US/NATO troops.

U. S. deserves to be duped by Pakistan for intentionally ignoring Pakistani State’s double game of running with the ‘terrorist hares’ while hunting with the ‘American hounds’.

Apparently they aren't that worried about Pakistan's future. Either they are even more naive about foreign affairs than they seem or they are demanding that Pakistan cut itself off from all aid without anything to replace it. Do they think that jihad will convince Pakistani elites to suddenly start paying taxes? Do they think that religious fervor will change the fact that the economy was in very bad shape even before the global recession?
Of course that's a funny thing about Pakistan. For a nation so proud it seems to have no problem taking the West's money while not doing a thing to convince its rich to pay their taxes.

Grant,

When you have wrong ideals and goals the social-political and economic consequences and costs can only be horrendous.

Instead of working for betterment of their harassed people, they decided to work for the glory of Islam along with dreams of annexing Kashmir and colonize Afghanistan.

Afghan Jihad to evict Russians and post 9/11 war on terror was skillfully exploited to milk the rich and bumbling Americans.

We must remember the Amir Jihad and mentor of Osama Bin Lade, Abdulah Azzam was assassinated in Peshawar for suggesting the fighters to go home after achieving the main objective of Jihad.

There were many people who wanted Azzam dead. But the defining ideals of OBL, Jawahiri and ISI were opposed to what was suggested by Azzam.

Killers, Terrorists, War and Drug Lords and Hate Preachers are never caught and jailed in Pure Pakistan.

No one was interested to investigate who killed Azzam.

It yet not known who Killed Benazir Bhutto.

No one is interested to know who Killed Saleem Sahzaad.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehaman Malik will always ask for proof to link any terror strike across the world to Pakistan and ISI.

After Osama Killing, Pakistani Parliament gloried the great contribution made by ISI to security and prestige of the country.

The new Pakistani Hero, Playboy Turned Puritan Imaran Khan support fanatic Islamist Mullah, say nothing to Military and blames, IMF, the west and Americans for all the self created troubles.

BTW why Pakistan agreed to go along Uncle Sam in Afghanistan?

Answer is simple, for Showers of Dollars, Dreams of East-West Expansion and Glory of Islam.

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