Stan Goff: A big shoe drops...

from HuffPost:



A big shoe drops...
Posted December 28, 2007 | 05:24 PM (EST)





No matter what turns out to be the truth behind the assassination of US neoliberal proxy Benazir Bhutto, there is little doubt that we have entered a new stage of dangerous global instability as a direct consequence of US foreign policy in South and Southwest Asia.

With the US created civil war in Iraq shifting into a second post-ethnic-cleansing phase, when the putative "progress" of the surge (it's no such thing) is near enough to being exposed for the deadly farce that it is, the US is now faced not with a pretext to invade another country, when it has no capacity to do so, but with what may feel like urgent necessity to our government. Civil war in Pakistan means a nuclear-armed state -- in a shaky cease-fire with a nuclear-armed neighbor (that is the second largest national population in the world) -- is now up for grabs.

The simultaneous occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan is a recipe for a worse debacle than anyone might ever have imagined... if it is possible at all.

Someone, somewhere in Washington, ought to be asking, "What have we wrought?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-goff/a-big-shoe-drops_b_78624.html

"How can we spin this?" That is their only concern: the political angle.

It's pathetic. None of them have real policy positions or knowledge of Pakistan, either. None of them spoke out except maybe Kucinich when US drones started bombing Pakistani villages undeterred by international law and started to stir all this shit up.

Brown people don't matter :sarcasm:

Other countries are mere colonies to Corporate America. :hi:

I think a lot of us here are also largely ignorant of Pakistan. It's a confusing place, full of Byzantine intrigues. What little intelligent discussion of it I've ever encountered was by Barnett Rubin over at www.talkingpointsmemo.com , but it still remains a mystery to me.

It's good to have you here.