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American leadership needs critical thinking about its failure and
triumph in global relationships. After 16 years of warmongering and
perpetuated violence on the people of Afghanistan, President Trump is
challenging his own inner psychological attitude towards war and peace
in South West Asia. As a candidate Trump, he voiced strong opposition to
continued US military engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Ironically as President Trump,
he is opting for wrong turns and slipping into vice and ruin by
revisiting the triviality and viciousness of the US invasion of
Afghanistan and drone attacks against the innocent Pakistani civilians
in North-West Waziristan. His suspicious strategy unfolds a paranoid and
vengeful foresight to blame Pakistan
- what essentially went wrong with the US bogus war on terrorism.
We live in a paradoxical world where sincerity and virtues could be
misinterpreted as follies against the American self-interest. In
September 2001 after the 9/11 attacks, it was Pakistani dictator General
Pervaz Musharaf who responded to George Bush phone call on a two
hour notice – “either you are with us or against us”, and was coerced to
collaborate and support the American war agenda in Afghanistan. George
Bush needed some solace to prove that he was doing something against an
imaginative enemy living in Afghanistan. The truth is that Afghanistan
or its people never attacked America nor threatened its security in any
sense of rationality. The invasion of Afghanistan was planned by
the US long before the 9/11 attacks. Its aims included building gas
pipelines from Central Asia via Afghanistan and negotiated contract with
Bin Laden for natural gas in Afghanistan.
In a changing world of global thinking and friendly relationships
with others, American foreign policy experts should think critically how
best they could communicate to a friend in Southwest Asia and enlist
urgently needed moral and practical support to pave the ways for a
peaceful settlement of the Afghanistan crisis. America is a military
power but its legend of invincibility has been torn apart by small
groups of fighters in Afghanistan. Much of this land of ancient tribal
herdsmen is in ruins, its economy, political and civic infrastructures
and productivity devastated by the insanity of war and civilian lives
float between obsessed insecurity, daily bombings and extended
graveyards. America cannot undo the history of its own ruthless
engagement and strategic failure. This consequence is of its own failed
strategy or no strategy at all, and not of the role of Pakistan or
others. If American rational impulses are intact, its policy should
focus on a multilateral approach including Pakistan, Iran, China and
Russia to work out a negotiated settlement in Afghanistan. America needs
to be rational and see the mirror of its prolonged involvement in a war
that has consumed more than 3,000 lives of US soldiers and almost 10,000
wounded veterans. President Trump or his military advisors should
realize what went wrong in Afghanistan and how to rebuild the self-image
of a superpower occupied effectively by a handful of Talibans or almost
dead Al-Qaida - once who were its allies in fighting against the former
USSR. This is no excuse to go on radiating violent and undiplomatic
overtures to Pakistan or to reinforce aggression against the people of
Afghanistan. America needs a safe exit from the prolonged crisis. *** *** Share the link of this article with your facebook friends
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