Ex-Pakistani
President Pervez Musharraf admitting that his government had signed off on CIA
drone strikes in his country, becoming the first Pakistani official, former or
current, to acknowledge the Pakistani government's approval of the drone
campaign (CNN).
Many
people in Pakistan have protested and complained to the US about the drone
strikes. The strikes are designed to assassinate opponents of this country, but
have killed the innocent; women and children; along with the alleged guilty
would-be terrorists.
So it has
become easy, even boring and humdrum for our soldiers to sit safely in a corner
and munch pizza while pushing buttons that rain death and destruction on some
poor foreign` third world country. President Barak Obama and all of his foreign
policy cronies don’t give a damn what people in Pakistan or any other small
weaker country think.
This
situation brings to memory the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides as he reported on the negotiations
between the imperialist
Athenians who said to the Melian elite;
"The strong do as they can and the weak suffer what they
must."
But this
country—its leaders—collectively have become over-confident through all our
high tech gadgetry and have become arrogant. As with the Athenians against the
smaller weaker Melians, the US has just assumed the strong can do whatever they
want and Pakistan’s leaders—and everyone else in the Middle-east—and minority
groups here at home—can just “suck it up and shut up!”
We don’t
know yet who caused the bombing yesterday at the Boston
Marathon, but if it turns out that it is the work of Middle-east
terrorists, we should not be surprised. Raining terror on others will not make
us a lot of friends—it will make us a lot of enemies and we can only fight them
off for so long before they get lucky and strike this country on the
continental US. -សតិវ អតុ
US drone strike damage in Pakistan - Maddow
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The rain of terror here at home:
Boston
Marathon Bombing 2013 - Street View
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