My generation, the baby boomers, was trained to think but the
progressive generations are being trained to let a select few think. The
control and brainwashing role has been delegated to the media, the
voice of all politicians, over the past 20 years through disinformation.
In the futuristic book, the Time Machine, published in 1895 by H.G.
Wells, the Time Traveller discovers in the future that there are only
two groups of human species: the ineffectual, hermaphrodite and
leisurely Elois or the downtrodden, subterranean Morlocks. The Time
Traveller finds that both species of humans have lost the intelligence
and character of mankind at its peak.
Early last year, I was discussing The Time Machine and its
implications with a friend of mine, a retired officer from the Pakistan
army. When I brought up the subject of Pakistan’s nuclear defences my
friend did not wish to discuss the subject because of the sensitivity
and after some shop talk we departed. The last thing he’d mentioned was
“go and research Professor Chossudovsky”. We never met again because he
passed away in January 2010 but his opinion that he’d whispered in my
ears that Pakistan’s nuclear assets could serve as deterrents against
the neo-con regime in Afghanistan interested me.
Recently, I began researching Professor Michel Chossudovsky, a
Canadian economist, and came upon his very interesting 2-part
publication titled “The Destabilization of Pakistan” (December 30, 2007
and January 8, 2008) which can be read on
globalresearch.com Professor Chossudovsky underscored the following salient points:
• Pakistan’s extensive oil and gas reserves, largely located in
Baluchistan province, as well as its pipeline corridors are considered
strategic by the Anglo-American alliance, requiring the concurrent
militarization of Pakistani territory (sic).
• U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in
Pakistan, as part of an effort to train and support indigenous
counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units”
(William Arkin, Washington Post, December 2007) (sic).
• “Regime change” with a view to ensuring continuity under military rule
is no longer the main thrust of US foreign policy. The regime of Pervez
Musharraf cannot prevail. Washington’s foreign policy course is to
actively promote the political fragmentation and balkanization of
Pakistan as a nation (sic) (very interesting that the Professor wrote
the article in December 2007 and Musharraf was removed in August 2008)
• It is by no means accidental that the 2005 National Intelligence
Council- CIA report had predicted a “Yugoslav-like fate” for Pakistan
pointing to the impacts of “economic mismanagement” as one of the causes
of political break-up and balkanization (sic). I’ll discuss this issue
of “economic mismanagement” further.
• These various “terrorist” organizations were created as a result of
CIA support. They are not the product of religion. The project to
establish “a pan-Islamic Caliphate” is part of a carefully devised
intelligence operation (sic). Religion has become a means to the end
goal.
India is not the least interested in occupying Pakistan with a Muslim
population of 170 million for to do so would mean that not only India’s
Muslim population increase but also an unmageable ethnic mix. However
Balkanization is intended for creating a free Baluchistan with vast
natural resources and a coastline of 750 kms. The remaining coastline
with Pakistan would be 250 kms. The warm waters have always been the
great game objective.
Whether the political and the military establishments of India are
aware or not, India’s role carved out by the US is critically important
for Pakistan’s denuclearization. The time frame to achieve the goal
seems somewhere between 2010 and 2012. The specifics and details of the
US-NATO goal have been becoming evident over the past 10 years through
political, economic and military manoeuvrings in the region.
The regime change in Pakistan in August 2008 was a strategy meant to
put Pakistan’s economy in dire straits. Rumours were that Musharraf,
stung by being outwitted by the US in September 2001, had been
extracting stringent economic concessions from the US. US thus favoured
removing Musharraf with a corrupt regime who would do its bidding.
Since then Pakistan’s economy has been moving from bad to worse.
Pakistan’s foreign debt has increased from $ 45 billion to $56 billion
by mid-2010, an outrageous increase of 10% per annum. By January 2010,
Pakistan’s annualized GDP growth had shrunk to a meagre inflation
adjusted 2%.
India does comprehend very well that if Pakistan is balkanized and
de-nuked, the power in Asia shifts in favour of India. Since China is a
fast rising economic and military power, it is essential that the west
develop India as an equal economic and military power to counter China.
This balance between India and China cannot be maintained if Pakistan is
to remains a N-power.
Economy plays a major role in wars. In Chossudovsky’s book “The
Global Economic Crisis: The Great depression of the XXI Century”, Peter
Dale Scott wrote America escaped from the depression of the 1890s with
the Spanish-American War. It only escaped the Great Depression of the
1930s with the Second World War. There was even a recession in the late
1950s from which America only escaped with the Korean War. As we face
the risk of major depression again, I believe we inevitably face the
danger of a major war again. If this surmise is correct, the only two
catalyzing factors would either be an aggravation of America’s war on
terrorism or igniting the Korean peninsula. To the author, America has
no intention of re-engaging in Southeast Asia.
The likeliest possibility of starting a major war exists in
Pakistan’s FATA region involving US-NATO troops and India on the eastern
border. Pakistan is already boxed in by having opted to be the
front-line state for the war on terrorism in 2001. Its economy is in
ruins, corruption among the leadership is rampant and outside of a
divine intervention or the involvement of China or the threat of nuclear
weapons, the US is set to balkanize Pakistan, at least in two parts.
Though the success is doubtful due to various reasons and a heavily
stretched military sphere of control, it does not preclude an attempt.
If not a military subjugation of Pakistan, an economic debacle could
well result in denuclearization terms being put on the table by US-NATO
political and economic command. It is the author’s opinion that the US
and NATO would be taking a risky gamble in the balkanization operation
due to China which also has strategic interests in the region, both in
Iran and Pakistan.
