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| India-Pakistan |
| Terror forever |
| 2017-02-24 |
| [DAWN] AS the Soviet Union disintegrated in front of his very eyes, its last leader Mikhail Gorbachev uttered quite possibly the most prescient words of his entire political life: the demise of global communism would deprive the United States of its most visible enemy, the artefact justifying its imperialist adventures around the world. Gorbachev understood that Washington would have to devise a new ideological ’other’ to retain a mandate to intervene whenever and wherever it wanted. More than a quarter of a century later, one would have to be living under a rock to be unaware that ’terrorism’ has become the great ’other’ of the self-proclaimed ’free world’ (read: the US-dominated world order). The same American-led ’free world’ that once decried communism as the antithesis of human civilisation. Gorbachev’s warning was heeded, and how. We Paks were part of the anti-communist bandwagon then, just like we are part of the anti-terrorist bandwagon now. The irony of history is that at least some of the same proxies that we cultivated to wage holy war against the Soviet Union metamorphosed into faceless myrmidons that we want to hunt down now. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 the enemy isn't terrorism the enemy is Islamist theocratic fascism Pakistan is mostly Islamist these days, making it our enemy, like communism was. Not our ally. |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-02-24 07:45 |