“Kabul: US ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan C Crocker said that Pakistanis are going to find some way to eliminate safe havens for terrorists across the border in Pakistan.”
A western genius Joaquin Setanti once said, ‘Beware of the man who urges an action in which he incurs no risk.’ So, this makes Ryan’s suggestion a matter of policy for us.
‘When all you use is stick, you are not going to get very far,’ a western proverb. “A few days after the US had bombarded Afghanistan in which every third house was destroyed, Donald Rumsfeld said: ‘It would be a wonderful thing if Iraq were similar to Afghanistan’, a news item read on 3-4-2003 in a newspaper. Has the US won the war in the last 10 years?
Z A KAZMI
Karachi