Pakistan, Oh Pakistan! More Hilarious Unintentional Irony from our "Ally"

You will recall that I have previously set forth my ideas concerning the non-country called “Pakistan.” Conceived in “black ops” by its supposed George Washington, the notorious, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. See, Wikipedia.org. Since history is not the strong suit of American education, one can’t expect people like George Bush and Dick Cheney to understand the origins of a thug like Pakistan’s dictator, Perez Musharraf. (Full disclosure, I went to college with the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benizir Bhutto. She was a lovely person, but that’s a different story ... ) Back to Jinnah: he was Ghandi’s close ally in the long struggle for Indian independence. Both Ghandi and Jinnah were English trained lawyers who came back to their country to use the tools of English law to help free their people. Jinnah was a brilliant lawyer, shrewd, cunning and ruthless. From the mid 1930’s on, he pretended to be working for the independence of a united India, when all the time he planned to create a separate Islamic state. The history of the end of British rule on the Indian subcontinent is an amazing tale of courage, faith and betrayal. The point is that the mutation called “Pakistan” should never have been allowed to live. Now the United States, as Successor Empire to the British, will have the unfortunate responsibility of dealing with Jinnah’s creation.

Which brings us to yesterday’s headline in the New York Times, “U.S. Pays Pakistan to Fight Terror, but Patrols Ebb.” See, NY Times. Here’s the gist of it:—“The United States is continuing to make large payments of roughly $1 billion a year to Pakistan for what it calls reimbursements to the country’s military for conducting counter terrorism efforts along the border with Afghanistan, even though Pakistan’s president decided eight months ago to slash patrols through the area where Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are most active. The monthly payments, called coalition support funds, are not widely advertised. Buried in public budget numbers, the payments are intended to reimburse Pakistan’s military for the cost of the operations. So far, Pakistan has received more than $5.6 billion under the program over five years, more than half of the total aid the United States has sent to the country since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, not counting covert funds.”

Does anyone for a moment think that a majority of these funds are being used for their original purpose? Good guess! Musharaf has been busy eliminating political rivals under the guise of fighting Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, all the while the infamous Pakistani secret police collaborate with Mullah Omar and others in the radical Sunni network. Just as the Defense Department pays the corrupt military contractors like Blackwater and Halliburton, so too does it pay General Musharraf’s bills without so much as an audit. To hark back to wise old Senator Everett Dirksen, “a billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.” See, Wikipedia.org.

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