The philosopher Isaiah Berlin once remarked that the United States was “morally superior to Europe.” No longer. America lost its city-on-the-hill idealism, its moral edge, long ago. From the beginning, America was more than a place.
Muslims never identified with OBL or condoned his appalling crimes. They, however, understood what forced a quiet young man to kick his billion-dollar fortune and take up arms.
Less is said about Pakistani anger that the U.S. invaded their territory to carry out a political assassination. Anti-American fervor is already very high in Pakistan, and these events are likely to exacerbate it.
It is an excellent research article by joint effort of American author and Pakistani journalists. It describes as to how many times US army has invaded other sovereign nations.
Our rulers and real power-wielders are conniving with Americans on drone attacks. So what is the point to the protestations? The Americans have designed an elaborate security checking systems for Pakistanis.
Facts are no longer the issue disturbing the people----whether Davis is a diplomat or not; whether he enjoyed diplomatic immunity or not; whether he is a CIA employee or not. The real issue has become the way the US is seen to be treating Pakistan.
United States on Saturday formally requested diplomatic immunity for an American low level agent who killed two people before a large number of people, in broad day light in Lahore, Pakistan ,the US itself has not granted similar immunity to even senior diplomats of other countr …
White Americans, going back to early colonial times, generally assigned the role of "bad guys" to "savages" lurking in the wilderness beyond the borders of our civilized land.
As much as six percent of the Americans--about 15,000,000 Americans--are gay, lesbian, or bisexuals.
"The situation now is that Turkey is dead and will never rise again, because we destroyed its moral strength: the khilafah and Islam," pronounced the British foreign secretary, Lord Curzon.. atta rasool malik
Twenty years ago when I was in Americaº I use to advise my American friends not to poke their nose into other's affairs; mentioning their past mistake of attacking Vietnam.
Prior to 9/11 Pakistan was a peaceful country. There was no challenge to the writ of its government in the entire length and breadth of the country including its Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA).
One cannot ignore Afghanistan. Not only because it is next to Pakistan, but also because it is the last frontier of resistance against a near-complete re-colonization of the Muslim world.
Excellent write-up. Author has grip over the politics of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. Indians are tigers in Afghanistan till the time NATO stays there. Indians are encouraging USA to stay for indefinite period.
The passenger jet with 152 on board slammed into a hillside in what was believed to be Pakistan's most serious air crash. At least 2 Americans were believed to be on board but, a month later, the US Embassy in Islamabad has left this unconfirmed.
The Taliban of today are a different breed altogether. Thy have thirty years of experience of hard fighting. They enjoy unity of command under Mullah Omar.
Americans can not afford to stay too long in Afghanistan irrespective of their superior technology and military might
Few would disagree that the mishandling of the cyclone relief operation precipitated the breakup of Pakistan in 1971, although secession was not solely due to the devastation of Cyclone Bhola.
"We need a complete revisit of what our policies in Kashmir have been," said Amitabh Mattoo, a professor of strategic affairs at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and a Kashmiri Hindu. "It is not about money — you have spent huge amounts of money.
It's the mullah-Marxist nexus," said Abid Suleri, the head of the institute and one of the nation's leading experts on food insecurity.
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