Making a Wild West of Us
As if the US intrusion was already not enough of it, a set of new demands, which according to a contemporary Washington has come up with, portends making of Pakistan virtually a sprawling Wild West and its citizens another Indian aborigines of America.
The only difference is that instead of settlers, cattlemen and ranchers, here it will be the American diplomats, soldiers and private security militias, having a free run of the country, setting shop wherever they liked and the way they liked and poaching on whoever they want and wherever they want, and with a free ride to kill whoever they wish and maim whoever they desire, without any questions being asked and without being held to account at all.
A law unto themselves will they be, not subject to any law of Pakistan, practically treating this country as their protectorate and a vassal state.
Washington hoped to yield upon politically weak President Musharraf, whose only strong constituency now is Bush Administration, to accept these demands as he did in September 2001. At that time he was legitimacy for his military regime. However after more than six years, situation has changed in Pakistan. A pseudo democratic system is taking shape in Islamabad and it will not be easy to persuade to a political government which will be answerable to a parliament not very friendly to the United States. (Frontier Post)
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