NATO’s brutal and unprovoked attack on Pakistani posts at Mohmand on 26 Nov killed and injured many soldiers and has put the whole nation into grief, shock and of course anger. The statement of Gen Dempsey that “the attack wasn’t deliberate and what in the world would we gain by attacking a Pakistani border post” can’t be used as defence for the cold-blooded murder. A mistake is for a minute and not for hours.
Two hours continuous bombing and killing the soldiers, despite clear knowledge of the posts and hearing Pakistani voices on the wireless, are proof that the Americans are lying. What did Raymond Davis gain by killing two Pakistanis; what did the Americans gain by killing thousands of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan and through drone attacks in Pakistan? It is time they answered “what we would’ve gained?” It seems that world has been hijacked by the Americans due to its status as the sole superpower and military might.
The other so called superpowers, except China perhaps, also dovetail their agendas with the US’ due to economic, social, religious and some other reasons. Now, the big question is, how long the rule of “might is right” will prevail.
Destroying Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya (and now they are hovering over Iran) are but a few examples of American high-handedness. The American leaders have always told lies to their nation and the world for their misadventures. Bush and Collin Powell destroyed Iraq on the pretext of Weapons of Mass Destruction; Afghanistan has become the country of widows, orphans, and graveyards and they have given a free hand to Israel to invade and destroy any Muslim country, besides continuous genocide of Palestinians and Kashmiris.
Now, they are killing their own allies, who have suffered the most in the war, who have sheltered more than 6 million Afghan refugees, and who have been plunging deep into poverty due to hefty economic losses. The world needs to take note of American aggression and exert whatever influence they have to ask it to desist.
SHAHID ZAHUR
Rawalpindi
