STEVE PIECZENIK TALKS

Pakistan—The “Failed State” --- Properly Poised for a Necessary Military Coup!

Very rarely does a country ebb in and out of a military coup or what we call a “soft coup” as readily as Pakistan, the failed civilian state, does. 

  Since it’s birth in the late 1940’s,  Pakistan has struggled to evolve into a democratically run muslim state.  But from the very beginning of it’s inception, it has had a severe structural problem that would not allow it to evolve into a civilian democracy. 

  The country from it’s very inception was run by an oligarchy of approximately eight major corrupt families. 

  Included in this close circle of kleptocracy was the iconic symbol of women’s liberation and astute civilian rule—Benazir Bhutto.

Of course, nothing could have been further from the truth than Benazir.  By destiny and accident, I had spent some time with her when she was a fellow student at Harvard in Social Psychology and then years later when I was a senior official. 

  On both occasions, it was apparent to me that like all politicians around the world, she was sculpted with the precise features embedded in a charismatic leader, irrespective of gender. 

  She continuously talked and referred to her father who, she had claimed, had been killed in a military coup and that her corrupt husband, who later became one of the civilian leaders of Pakistan, had been improperly jailed for corruption for ten years. 

In short, she was the new face of the new state of Pakistan, boisterous, filled with platitudes, and corrupt. 

  Lurking during her tenure as well as that of the failed leadership of her father and brother was the Pakistan military, incredibly highly disciplined and well educated corps of military officers trained in both England and the USA. 

  As chance would have it during one of my hostage negotiation crisis, I had the good fortune to meet one of the major leaders, if not the founding father, of the Pakistan Military—General/Ambassador Yaqub Kahn. 

He was an elegant, soft-spoken , exceedingly courageous individual who without my knowing who he was at the time, had volunteered his services to encounter a terrorist directly and negotiate face-to-face with him.   It was Ambassador Kahn who really successfully disarmed the Terrorist who had held over five hundred hostages in three buildings in what became known as the Hanafi Hostage of Washington DC. 

  Subsequently, we became friends and comrades-in-arm, sharing geopolitical insights and tactical concerns. 

  He kindly reminded me that I could never have been disobedient against him.  But I reminded him that if he were the General I would have been the leader of his country and executed him pre-emptively. 

  We both laughed and went on our respective ways. 

  But in that little narrative lies the basic truth of Pakistan. 

  It has always been and will always continue to be a military state controlled by the Pakistani military as well as the Special Unit created by the USG called the Inter-Services Intelligence or affectionately known in the trade as the “ISI”. 

  The ISI has a special place of in the war on terrorism. They helped create it.  They funded the ‘terrorist groups’ in Northern Pakistan and of course, in Afghanistan. 

With and without our help, the ISI can play the CIA and other US intelligence units, including our Military Intelligence, like putty in the hands of mutilators. 

  They execute and arrest at will. 

  If they want more money from our impotent, ignorant congress and WH,  they simply play the role of ‘Terrorist’ facilitator and show the world how they are ‘helping to combat’ the fictional CIA/ISI created war on terrorism. 

But you know all that. 

  What you may not know is that, contrary to common expectations, this failing, extremely sunni, radical state of belligerents who possess perhaps close to 100 or more tactical nuclear weapons [deliverable] are very close to Israel, a Jewish theocratic state. 

  In the past twenty years of Neocon and WH hysterics,  contrived and fanciful, no mention is ever made of the fact that Pakistan really does possess a REAL NUCLEAR THREAT TO INDIA, SOUTH ASIA and you know—THE HOLY LAND OF HYSTERICS---ISRAEL. 

  Isn’t it fascinating that this country, of non-country, consisting of radical Sunni Fundamentalists without any real civil institutions presents NO  CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO ISRAEL. 

  And in contrast,  a civilization that has been around thousands of years as the Persian Empire or a muslim caliphate-- without any deliverable nuclear weapons—presents a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO ISRAEL AND THE WORLD. 
WOW! Something is wrong here!

Either I have misread the situation or….. the American/Israeli narrative is completely false. 

  Think about this episode that occurred several years ago when Pakistan was led by a very charming,  effective military general turned civilian—Pervez Musharraf. 

  He made the big mistake of making a peace overture in public to Israel and claiming that he would love to have open Diplomatic Relations with Israel because he admired a JEWISH THEOCRATIC STATE that was militarily unequalled. 

Now that is a compliment. 

So…. something is rotten here!
  Could it be that our Presidents have been lying to us? 

  Could it be that DCI Panetta has killed more Pakistanis and innocent muslims with his useless and destructive Drone Attacks? 

  Could it be that our CIA is out of control and was creating a potential civil war in Pakistan?

 Could it be that our CIA and our Military officers don’t see eye-to-eye or gun-to –gun?

  Could it be that Saudi Arabia is constantly funding this failed state in order to buy a Life Insurance policy against any radical islamists who are not crazy about the decadent, rapacious "Fairy Land Kings"?

Two things are certain for me!

  The first is that if Pakistan and India can fight each other over Kashmir, there will be war until the sun sets. 

  No two countries are more addicted to this sado-masochistic relationship than Pakistan and India.  Oh, of course, I forgot  the S& M relationship between the Israelis and the Palestinian ‘terrorists groups’ funded by Israel and Saudi Arabia.

  Then there is the last conclusion of which I am certain. 

  Tomorrow, as the call for prayer flows over the minarets of Islamabad, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and his military commanders will attempt a ‘soft coup’ and ---guess what? 

  Surprisingly they will find no resistance from the Pakistanis, the Americans, the Israelis nor me!
  As far as I am concerned, that’s only one more de facto military regime after Syria, Iran, India, Israel, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya and don’t forget… you guessed it….. 

  The most militaristic of all regimes ---OUR BELOVED USA. 

  God Bless America!!! 

Forget it about it..  the President… the Congress.. the Judicial system and the rest… just remain comfortable while our Republican Centurions populate over 733 bases around 245 countries. 

What? me worry? 

Didn’t you know there were so many ‘terrorist countries’?

Forget about it,  Donny Brasco… 

It’s time for Alfred E Newman to take over!!!

Yes, What me worry? 

AMERICANS DEMOCRACY?

“FORGET  ABOUT IT… “

Tell me what’s really important, who wore what at the Oscars? 

And, who came out today? 

And what did Kardashian do yesterday?

“Sequestration”—that’s just another fancy word for ‘nothing will happen’

Just take comfort that our AMERICAN EMPIRE  is expanding exponentially while the Republic is destroying itself  from within. 

Hail to our Caesar!! 

And our Centurion Guards await your orders… so you think!

Pakistan keep on asking for more aid to ‘democratize’  your country..no one in our military or CIA/MI will ever deny you that ‘incredible chance’ to become ‘democratic’. 

By the way, Caesar Obamus, that meeting with the Silver Spring Deli owner President Karzai was beyond absurd. 

At least when you put on a show, make it credible, not a continuing farce. 

But, fagetta 'bout it…..