[Peace] AOTA NOTA BENE

[C. G. Estabrook]

  *AWARE On The Air* tonight (10pm ch. 6) dissects the following bit of Obama 
administration agitprop, as found in its semi-official newspaper:

/<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/15shadowwar.html?scp=1&sq=shadow&st=cse>./

It's a propaganda bonanza, worthy of Pravda in the halcyon days of their own 
invasion of Afghanistan (opposed by Presidents Carter of the US and Zia of 
Pakistan, who had both sent fanatic jihadists to commit murder in their stead.)

In addition, Ron Szoke, who analyzes the NYT, brings us further News from the 
Nuthouse...

...on the day in 1988 when a plethora of spy agencies vied with one another to 
(successfully) bring down President Zia's plane. ("Murder on the South Asian 
Express.") They even killed the American ambassador, which makes it clear that 
the CIA had a hand in it ("...striped-pants sissies...").

[General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq was President of Pakistan from 1977 to his death on 
this day in 1988. After helping to defeat the Palestinians in Black September in 
Jordan in 1970, he was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister 
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - whom he overthrew in in 1977; two years later, he had 
Bhutto (the father of Benazir "Pinky" Bhutto) judicially murdered.
     Zia's consolidated the nuclear program, initiated by Bhutto, and promoted 
Islamization. With the Carter administration he subsidized the Mujahideen 
movement before and during the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
     Pakistan developed nuclear weapons, outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty 
(NPT), thanks in no small measure to Ronald Reagan, who pretended not to see 
what his ally was doing. This was one element of Reagan's "unstinting support" 
for the "ruthless and vindictive" dictator Zia ul-Haq, whose rule had "the most 
long-lasting and damaging effect on Pakistani society, one still prevalent 
today," the highly respected analyst Ahmed Rashid observes. With Reagan's firm 
backing, Zia moved to impose "an ideological Islamic state upon the population." 
These are the immediate roots of many of "today's problems - the militancy of 
the religious parties, the mushrooming of madrassas and extremist groups, the 
spread of drug and Kalashnikov culture, and the increase in sectarian violence."
     The Reaganites also "built up the [Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, 
ISI] into a formidable intelligence agency that ran the political process inside 
Pakistan while promoting Islamic insurgencies in Kashmir and Central Asia," 
Rashid continues. "This global jihad launched by Zia and Reagan was to sow the 
seeds of al Qaeda and turn Pakistan into the world center of jihadism for the 
next two decades." Meanwhile Reagan's immediate successors left Afghanistan in 
the hands of the most vicious jihadis, later abandoning it to warlord rule under 
Rumsfeld's direction. The fearsome ISI continues to play both sides of the 
street, supporting the resurgent Taliban and simultaneously acceding to some US 
demands.]

Don't let anyone tell you different: Obama's war (what the Pentagon calls The 
Long War - for the energy resources of SW Asia) is going swimmingly.  Americans 
will pay for it and won't ask questions. It probably won't even be necessary to 
destroy Iran.  But we can - as Obama has been threatening to do since he ran for 
the Senate - any time we have to.

Good night, and sleep well.

Yr. obdt. servt.


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