Educating the PPP leadership

By Dr Haider Mehdi | Published: August 6, 2008

A funny thing happened to Barack Obama on the way to Palestine  recently - he chose to forget that there were Palestinians there who had lived and suffered grievously under a foreign occupation for 40 years.
In Israel, he visited Sderot, the town abutting the Gaza border, to express solemn sympathy for the 13 civilians killed there by Gazan militants in recent years, making no reference to the fact that this would equal the number of Palestinians killed by Israelis on a slow weekend. In the West Bank, where his motorcade skirted that wall of hate snaking in places for miles into Palestinian territory, and where for four decades Palestinians have had to endure checkpoints, land expropriation, curfews and collective punishment, there was nary a word of commiseration for the victims.-Fawaz Turki, Gulf News, August 2, 2008
But do not be surprised. This is the real America. This is the real American politics. This is the real Barak Obama, the veritable American politician brought up in a country where politics towards non-Western nations is intrinsically cold-blooded and barbaric.
Obama's political behaviour in Palestine is a testimony to a continuum of a mindset that is set to remain untouched and unchanged for future global politics. Obama or no Obama in the White House next January, the US covert and overt aggression against many Muslim nations in general and most specifically in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan will continue unabated.
The point is that there is a lesson to be learned here (in Obama's behaviour) for the incumbent PPP leadership in control of political management in Pakistan. The Peoples Party leaders are suffering from an illusion, intentionally or unintentionally, that by declaring the so-called War On Terror as its "own war," they will pacify the US and, consequently, American military power built up in Afghanistan which further involves Pakistan in a political-military conflict with its neighbour will cease to exist. This is purely an illusive view and is certainly not going to happen.
The fact of the matter is that America has neither the intellectual depth nor the ideological potential or the moral bearing for a fundamental change in its global political behaviour. The American political establishment is historically plagued with phobic insanity and is unable to make sensible rational humane judgements when it comes into conflicts with other nations and their resolutions.

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