Hugh on Pakistan

Hugh on Pakistan

September 30, 2010
 

"We will have to see whether we are allies or enemies," Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said of the border incident, without mentioning the blockade...."

It is the Americans who have over the past half-century deluded themselves into thinking that Pakistan, a Muslim country created of, by, and exclusively for, Muslims, and whose reason for being is the re-conquest of Kashmir and then of other parts of formerly Muslim-possessed India (its military has no other goal, no other mission, but to make war on Infidel India), could ever be an ally. The same mistake is made, in greater and lesser degrees, with other Muslim countries. Thus we routinely hear about "American allies in the Middle East such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan." This is nonsense. 

It is nonsense to those who bother to find out about the Islamic worldview, and who do not make the mistake, as a consequence, of confusing the occasional inveiglements and sweet-nothings of those who want our material aid (Jordan, Egypt) or who -- Saudi Arabia, and various Gulf statelets -- who want American military protection against certain Muslim enemies foreign (Iraq, Iran) and domestic (those who oppose the local kleptocratic rulers and necessarily frame their disgust with the corruption and theft in terms that require them to turn to local succursales of Al Qaeda).

Pakistan was not an "ally" during CENTO's brief existence. It was not an ally when it took American military aid and made war on India. It was not an ally when it used American aid to fund its nuclear project, based on Western secrets stolen by a metallugrist, A. Q. Khan. It was not an ally when it transferred, or sold, some of those nuclear secrets to North Korea, to Iran, possibly to Libya and others, too). It has not been an ally at all, as Senators Glenn and Pressler understood -- google "The Pressler Amendment." 

It was not an ally when Pakistan gave birth too, nurtured, and then helped establish as the rulers of Afghanistan, the Taliban. It has not been an ally during the last nine years of farcical efforts in "Af-Pak." It never will be, it cannot be, an ally of the Infidel Americans. This is very hard for the American government to allow itself to understand, just as it cannot as yet allow itself to understand that the presence, and growth, of the Muslim popoulation in the countries of Western Europe, of NATO, constitutes a permanent threat to the West, and to the United States, and that instead of supporting Turkish entry into the E.U., we should be firmly against it, and instead of discouraging those who, such as Geert Wilders, recognize the meaning, and thus the menace, of Islam for non-Muslims, we should do nothing to oppose, and a lot to encourage -- just as during the early years of the Cold War we encouraged those who in Europe recognized,against powerful local Communist parties the menace of Soviet Communism and its propaganda -- Wilders, Magdi Allam, and all others who in Western Europe are helping others to come to their collective senses.

Likes of Zaid Hamid had been advocating this(Cutting the NATO Supply Line) for a long time. Now, Pakistan has done it. It once again proves Mark Steyn's point that America is now perceived as a weak enemy, and can be easily arm-twisted into submission. There is hardly any evidence that the USA wishes to change this perception, and hence one can see the future quite clearly.

Obama or Clinton shall speak to Pakistan Army Chief, who runs the show in Pakistan, apologise for the NATO helicopters crossing the line, and killing the Pakistani soldiers, and promise to behave more responsibly in future. Pakistan will agree to re-open the supply line after USA promises to double its aid.


And the show will go on.