Masopher's Mind

The “abandonment” of Pakistan and Afghanistan is a common and painful theme in his mind. So are fates of the militants who are now operating against India. Pakistan will not do to the Lashkar-i-Tayyaba and other groups what the USA did to the 25 thousand Mujahadeen the Afghans and to Pakistan. His country will not ditch them just because the world has become once again interested in the region. He knows first hand that one cannot turn yesterday’s heroes into today’s villains.

Pervez Musharraf is methodical in his summary of the security situation in Pakistan. We are where we are because at the end of the cold war, the funding coming from the United States and Saudi Arabia abruptly ceased and thousands of hardened fighters were all of a sudden left with nothing to do.

I think that the ISI and Pakistan Military also turned their attention and newly learned skills to India and Kashmir, building up its own insurgency for low level conflicts while at the same time obtaining and developing nuclear weapons to protect its existential interests.

Back in Afghanistan, the ethnic Pastun populations fell into conflict, gelling loosely around Mullah Omar’s brutal Taliban group and warring against the ethnic Uzbeks, Hazaras, Tajiks and minority groups which formed a Northern Alliance.

Among the Taliban and warlords, the newly formed Al Qaeda spoiling for trouble began training disaffected youth who may have missed the great jihad against the Soviets.

Once Al Qaeda succeeded on 9/11/2001, Iran and the United States assisted the Northern Alliance to disperse the Taliban Pashtun but failed to sufficiently integrate or recognize the non-Taliban Pashtun.

The disaffected Afghans along with Mullah Omar eventually regrouped from Waziristan in Pakistan. With help from their cousins across the loosely defined border, the Taliban pushed back in 2003 until the present, funding their war with opium.

Musharraf worries about simultaneous rising extremism in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. A grassroots unity of extremists where politicians have failed. He believes that Pakistan should have done more to placate, infiltrate and influence the Taliban and their fierce example is leading the poor, disaffected youth in the three countries to radicalize and talibanize.

He continues to nurse the old Indian chestnut. Nuclear India means Pakistan will follow suite and every tit of India will be answered by a tat from Pakistan. He seems to want an independent self governing Kashmir and he believes that President Singh and he were about to make important breakthroughs just Musharraf lost power in 2008. India’s continued action in Kashmir and Afghanistan courtesy of India’s RAW agency is heavily resented, as is the 25 division of infantry, 3 armoured and 3 motorized divisions along with the forward air bases on India’s western border. India will always be a threat, even when terrorists are the main threat.

Musharraf is military to the core. He speaks of negotiating from “a position of strength”, that “quitting is not an option”, wants to “saturate the area with strength”, by pursuing an “effect related” strategy, instead of a “time related” strategy, to “defeat the centre of gravity”; he claims to be “a man for peace” but his background as “a man of war” is all too plain.

In February 2010, I see that Musharraf wants to get back into power (though in a legitimate way this time). He commands a room but he would love to command even more. He knows that the Pakistan leadership is weak though he does not say so. He envisions reuniting “in thought and action”, the military, the bureaucracy and political parts of government (though not necessarily in the being of one person). Peace in Asia, the Middle East and perhaps the world needs “leadership decisions”, which are based on sincerity, flexibility and boldness. Musharraf believes he is that leader.

A statement so flawed that it, like many other “news items”, is scarcely worth my time. But I’ll rant for a bit because I am glad to see the current successes of Operation Moshtarak and hope for much more. That is the way that wars are ended by achieving goals.

In 2007 an Irishman called Michael Semple was thrown out of Afghanistan when the Kharzai government found out he was talking to the Taliban, trying to broker a deal between the British government and the second tier or Pashtun warriors. While Mullah Oman and his cohorts are considered to be official enemies, beyond conversation Britain planned to undercut the Talibans leadership and in fact undercut the Kharzai government by dealing with the men with real power in Pashtunistan.

This didn’t work because the real Taliban and real mujahadeen gave them the same answer they gave the Soviets. They will not stop fighting until every NATO troop leaves in either body bags or C130s (or Antanovs etc.) I spoke on this as well; there is no talking to the Taliban, they want to mistreat women, kill infidels, harbour murderous jihadis, sell opium, run a backward society and they want the world to be run the same way. There is no compromise with right and wrong.

News media talk about perceptions as if they are divorced from the bad perception NATO has. Ever dead soldier becomes a newsflash every coward and whimpering simpleton becomes a news story. In the Pacific, and on the French shore and countryside hundred of thousands of young men died fighting a war that they were thrown into and they received our support. Now a few hundred die and the pusillanimous  voices that have been allowed to grow too loud want to “talk” because the “Taliban” are seen to be winning. They are seen to be winning because the press actively makes it look that way. This is done easily by promoting the nay sayers highlighting the faults, overshadowing the supporters and ignoring the successes.

Talking is a defeat firstly because it it works it confirms that the Taliban are already gone, because the Taliban don’t talk. If it doesn’t then it is just another defeat for the United States not only against extreme idealism but against the liberal pinko press.

If simple tenants such as the use of force can no longer be used by modern governments then other governments and ideologies who can act without the restraints of its soft headed, self-doubting, self-destructive media will begin to lead the world down very dark and confusing paths.

The darkness and confusion is already present. Three years ago,talking was off the table, now it is back on the table and with gusto. The media is allowed to guesstimate and exaggerate based on reports from Afghani commanders instead of their own countrymen. Withdrawing in disgrace from another inferiorly armed country has become not only an option but a standard and signature maneuver. Helplessness to the “power” of China is a theme played out while we demand the inferior and entirely disposable products it produces. The communist tenants of equality stark against the real inequality and poverty is what these “intelligent” people hope for. They are not seeking equality, they are hoping that instead of a society run by manufacturers of wealth, producers of goods and forgers of new paths, the society will be run by soft headed thinkers of grand ideas and ignorers of reality. They are seeking a society ruled by themselves.

I was listening to a lecture by Gilles Kepler and it really brought back to me just how instrumental London is in creating radical Islam.  Almost none of what I am about to say was mentioned by Kepler by the way, but here’s what I think.

English guy (T.E. Lawrence) goes riding through Arabia inciting Anti Ottoman and Anti German sentiment. This leads to the defeat of two empires one in the Middle East and the other a bit later in North Africa. The Middle East and Africa is divvied up between the French and English. In a similar fashion, later Germany and Europe is divvied up between the USA and Russia.

England decides to break up Indiostan into Muslim and a Hindu countries, making one country that has two parts and another much larger one dividing it and leaving a large plot of land unallocated. The two new countries, India and Pakistan-Bangladesh fall into fighting and civil war as Muslims and Hindus become displaced and soon one set of Muslims(The Bengalis) decide not to be part of the other set (The Pakistanis). Both countries soon acquire nuclear weapons, Allah/Vishnu know where from, and proceed to start not only racing to destruction but proliferating weapons of mass destruction to every rag head, bearded prophet and wild eyed dictator that can fork over oil money.

Along with the lovely Muslim and Hindu countries, England “loses control” of its large Jewish population and by lose control I mean encourages and assists;  to grab a large swathe of land which displaces a Muslim population and creates a contentious Jewish country.

Later, England loses control of the Persian population and by loses control I mean the puppet that was exploiting his people and allowing BP to plunder the oil was thrown out in a revolution that put a serious dent in global wealth via the crash of 1979 and creates a serious enemy of the West in the form of Khomeini and his Iranian successors.

One massive country with oil slips away but thanks to billions of dollars worth of planes in the Al Yamamah agreements another is held tightly as a friend. Over the years the Saudi government with its Yemeni refugees proves to be an invaluable source of information, insurgents and energy.

England has also been inviting uneducated unfamiliar populations from India, Pakistan and dozens of Arab and North African countries into England to essentially graft themselves onto the UK population. They can become “British” but they can never be “English”. England is a country of Caucasians that was known for sending several crusades into these same countries and with much foreign office meddling (see above for Lawrence of Arabia or various “Chatham House Version” incursions).  The British are the populations that pay taxes do the menial jobs and get used and sponsored in efforts to bring down the governments of the countries that they left behind.

Sooner or later the Muslims start talking. Yes they are helping the Muslim brotherhood fight Egypt, Syria and Libya, and yes they are helping the Mujahideen fight the Soviets but they also start trading stories about Palestine, and the fact that most of the apostate Governments and “near enemies” are actually part sponsored by English and Western taxes.

The story can get confusing because there is so much happening all at once but the Muslims eventually seem to get the point that England and its set of Western colonies(The states of America) are the real (far)enemy. Even young Nigerians bear a taint of London schooling as they board American flights on Christmas day with the intent of setting their crotch on fire to the demise of people heading home to eat figgy pudding and some honey roasted ham with their loved ones.

The English threat is very obvious to the Arab, North African, Persian and South Asian populations, its not a threat of direct force but a threat of machination. But the double talking double dealing lessons have been learned by the target populations along with a sense of cynicism and paranoia. India, Pakistan, Iran Israel and Saudi Arabia exchange pleasantries one day and threaten each other existentially the very next. What once threatened Spain, Germany and France in one form two centuries ago now threatens the future of humanity in this one. It’s not England but it’s unmistakably English.