arunsrinivasan wrote:Read in full, full of obvious facts, but coming from a mainstream (ex NYT) reporter ... surprising.
Pakistan Walks All Over the U.S. - By Joel Brinkley
A few days ago, a senior judge in Pakistan refused to release an American diplomat from jail for allegedly shooting two armed men who were threatening to rob him. The judge threatened to charge the diplomat, Raymond Davis, with murder.
The United States has given Pakistan more than $20 billion in military and civilian aid over the last decade - more than any other nation except Israel. A year ago, Congress approved another $7.5 billion in civilian aid, money that is being disbursed now. And yet, American leaders let the Pakistan government walk all over them.
Joel Brinkley is the Lorey I. Lokey professor of journalism at Stanford University, a position he assumed in 2006 after a 23-year career with the New York Times.
Dear Joel,
Your understanding of the US-TSP relations is pitiful despite spending 23 years with NYT. Seems to me that during your sojourns to "South Asia" during your career at NYT, either you just went through the standard routine "caste" or "India TSP equal equal" blase western reporting motions while enjoying the fawning, luxorious 5-star treatment meted out to you both in India and TSP, or you are deliberately feigning ignorance. Succintly put, your state department beauracrats, pentagon thugs, and CIA snakes are not stupid. They may yet secure Raymond Davis for the right baksheesh to Kiyani, Paasha & Co, or push when comes to shove, might even sacrifice him in the larger geo-political interests of the US empire. This is what makes your country such a super power. Let me explain.
My dear Joel, the US TSP dynamic is not about TSP per se, but rather its about the Indian juggernaut next door. You see those smelly, rice-eating, dark-skinned, casteist, Hindus (SDREs) for ever embroiled in internecine altercations, neverthless worry your foreign policy experts because even in the midst of such dire straits, those SDREs continue to excel against all odds, and bereft of external pressures in collusion with many a 5th columinists among India's ruling elite, those SDREs might actually succeed and give you westerners, so imbued in your cultural and racial superiority, a run for your money (Just ask Henry Kissinger or Zbieg Brizinsky, your so called "elder statesman"). Not in building better jet aircrafts or iPhones, you have no rivals on those, but rather, an alternate worldview that could take root, distinct from the "my way or highway" judeao Christian wordview.
For the past 60+ years, US policy has revolved around propping up this terrorist abomination TSP just so that the SDREs remain bottled up and don't rise beyond a level your foreign policy elites are comfortable with. Thus, my dear Joel, US is not making any noises because should they push TSP to release Raymond Davis and humiliate TSP, mob fury might consume your pet doggy Kiyani & Co, Egypt will look like a picnic in contrast, and with no TSP to torment, harass, humiliate, and box those f%^&*$ing SDREs in "South Asia", they (SDREs) might act a tad more uppity than Hilary Clinton & Co would be comfortable with.
So be patient my dear Joel, lots of possibilities probably taking shape back channel. With TSP having gotten away with murder umpteen times before, I won't even be surprised if your president Obama has called up your man MMS in Delhi to make some concessions to TSP on Kashmir so TSP can then release Raymond Davis with no loss of etch-and-dee. Remember the immutable mantra in the US-TSP-India traid: there is no crime that TSP can commit that would not involve scapegoaiting India to explain away TSP's machinations. Even a Paki dirty nuke exploding in Tines Square, NY would be justified on the grounds that had India not built nukes, TSP would not have indulged in such a crime. Such is the need to throttle those SDREs.
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