As for Pakistan, I don’t see any reason for it to carry out an operation just so that Obama can get re-elected.
CHICAGO: This is with reference to Nadir Hassan’s article of September 29 titled “Making the right decision”. America’s accusations that Pakistan supports the Haqqani network were made to embarrass and shame Pakistan, and force it to attack and wipe out that group. The US hoped that without the Haqqanis, they might be able to forge an alliance with other Taliban groups, and fashion a face-saving way out that will not look like a defeat. Such an outcome could help the hapless President Obama be re-elected. The US has always used proxies to fight its wars, like it uses Nato in Afghanistan, and now its pushing Pakistan to fight like a proxy. My opinion is that Pakistan should be fully pre-occupied now with helping the flood victims in its south that are starving and dying from lack of shelter, food, medicine,
Obama wanted war, let him have it. He ordered Admiral Mullen and others to try to force Pakistan to help because he knows by now that when the US leaves Afghanistan it will not be on a victorious note. And that will be bad for his re-election, next year. As for Pakistan, I don’t see any reason for it to carry out an operation just so that Obama can get re-elected. Even we, as in most Americans, have lost faith in him.
Nikos Retsos
Published in The Express Tribune, September 30th, 2011.
