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CSIS Report on “Post Conflict Reconstruction Project” goes into my repository as a must-read which Im afraid Ill never get around to reading.. A perilous course – US Assistance to Pakistan (June 2007)
One doesnt need such a fancy analysis to understand the issue.
Unfortunately for us, US supported Musharraf and continues to back him. The man has sacked the judiciary and silenced the media. Now civilians can also be court marshaled on lame pretexts. He is planning to hold ‘free and fair’ elections without these two ingredients that are considered integral for democracy by the civilized world.
One can imagine how free and fair would these elections be.
And then defying all laws of parenting, US Foreign Relations Chairman and the next contender for President, Senator Biden advocates “large, unconditional financial support for non-security projects such as schools, roads, clinics, etc; conditioning of security aid on performance; support for judicial, political, and good government reforms; and finally and increase in public diplomacy and high impact support.”
That’s what they call rewarding bad behavior. They cant stop the Coalition Support Fund as it would be the second time the US would be ditching Pakistan unceremoniously as they just cant afford to repeat the post-Soviet war scenario.
And they think they can promote democracy and good governance by setting up schools and dishing out dollars. And all this while there is no word from the US regarding reinstatement of judiciary, removal of ban on the media, and restoration of the constitution and civil rights. When your premise is not true how can your conclusion be sound? And then they sit and wonder where they went wrong.
In setting up their dream team of moderates, they have created a monster.
As Imran Khan said in an interview to Dawn
“The most awful thing about all this is that the Bush administration is prepared to sacrifice 160 million Pakistanis to back one man who is willing to turn his own army against civilians for the so-called ‘war on terror’. It is plain callousness on the Bush administration’s part to play with the lives of Pakistanis to accomplish a convoluted ideology. But the saddest part of it all is that Musharraf and Benazir are assisting it in ruining the future of this country.”
