Pakistan's Dramatic Values
The late benevolent and patrician Benazir Bhutto came from a family with a distinguished past in Pakistani politics, and her husband, President Asif Ali Zardari is continuing the legacy, awaiting the age majority and studies completion of their son. Benazir Bhutto's father convinced the great poverty-stricken masses of Pakistan that, though he was a wealthy land-owner he felt their pain and he would be instrumental in easing it once elected President.And what he then did, upon election, was set his sights on attaining for his country the prestige of building a nuclear facility. The plight of the poor slipped his busy mind. He was busy challenging despised India, so that each would avail themselves of nuclear technology resulting in nuclear bombs. A tinder-box neighbourhood, with even yet Pakistan provoking its citizens to protest in Indian-owned Kashmir, and to enlist the professionalism of terrorists to raid India.
The tradition persisted, and the condition of the poor in Pakistan also persisted, and does to this very day, most unfortunately. All the more unfortunate when there are ethnic and religious clashes, and when the Taliban whom the Pakistan Secret Service and military so assiduously trained and armed and pointed in the direction of Afghanistan, bred their own Pakistani Taliban.
Pakistan, like many other poor Islamic countries is on financial life-support, dependent on the good graces - and the tactical military need - of Western countries, most notably the United States, to keep it afloat. It funds terror groups through the courtesy of Western funding, while Saudi Arabia helps fund the madrasses that birthed the terrorists now hounding the world.
The country's infrastructure is geared toward the military, toward covert encouragement of terrorism against Afghanistan and India, yet it cannot mount an effective rescue mission for its displaced people suffering the loss of their homes, their farms, their livestock and their own lives, as a result of monumental flooding. It seems incapable of providing basic medical treatment, food and water for the desperate victims of massive floods.
But here come the United Nations agencies like UNICEF, helping the over three-million displaced Pakistanis, and here comes the United States with its rescue helicopters, and huge ocean-going vessels, and halal foods stock-piled in Afghanistan. To the rescue.
Labels: Environment, Political Realities, World Crises
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, August 05, 2010
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