Is the U.S. TRYING to Destabilize Pakistan?

It’s actions sure LOOK like it is.

Days after Pakistani Taliban terrorists attacked the Karachi international airport, and followed up with an attack on the airport security guard training center, the U.S. stirred the pot by launching two drone strikes on Pakistani territory, killing 14. This marks the end of a “pause” in U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan that was in effect since last December, when the Paki civilian government asked the U.S. to stop the aerial terror campaign while the government negotiated with the Paki Taliban.

If the U.S. wanted to inflame the situation in Pakistan, they couldn’t have picked a more effective act than these latest assassinations.

In fact, in taking credit for the airport attack, the Paki Taliban cited as a reason the U.S. drone assassination of their leader Hakimullah Mehsud, last year. So now the U.S. doubles down on provocation. What it hopes to gain by repeatedly throwing stones at a beehive is truly inscrutable. [1]

You’d think the U.S. had a deliberate policy of trying to help Islamofascists take over Pakistan, a country with an arsenal of nuclear weapons!

If the idea is to force the Paki army to fight the Islamofascists, the Obama regime should leak word of that strategy through “unnamed White House officials” or whoever to the Washington Post or the New York Times, those two bulletin boards for U.S. government messages to the American bourgeois elite. So far, nothing.

Here’s an idea: instead of violently meddling in the affairs of other nations, let the people there sort things out. If the goal is to prevent an Islamofascist takeover of Pakistan, making the Pakistani people hate the U.S. more and more with a drone terror campaign, while also exposing the Paki government as impotent to protect them from foreign aerial attack, is exactly the WRONG way to go about it!

Every tactical victory won by bumping off a terrorist leader, who is immediately replaced by a new leader, is another nail hammered into the coffin of U.S. strategic defeat against the jihadist fanatics. As in Vietnam, the U.S. is losing a war while winning every battle. More of the world is under the sway of Islamofascists now than when Obama started his dirty work. I think failure speaks for itself. The time to come up with a strategy, instead of turning professional assassins loose and calling it a policy, is long past. [2]

And how’s this for a bitter irony: part of Obama’s pitch in replacing Bush was that he would, to use the verbiage we were fed, “restore America’s standing in the world,” in other words, fix the U.S’s image. And Obama’s erstwhile Secretary of State, the lifelong relentless self-promoter and manipulator Hillary Clinton, is currently promoting a book written for her by her drones (but with her name on the cover as the ostensible author) in which she brags about the great job she did improving the view foreigners hold of the U.S.

This practice of duping world opinion with U.S. national propaganda and brainwashing operations is euphemistically labeled “public diplomacy” by those who commit it. It is aimed at everyone on earth, both Americans and non-Americans. [3]

But of course all that could only ever be a con job, given that the U.S. had no intention of reforming itself and not being an imperialist power anymore, ending its support for horrible tyrannies around the world, and refraining from committing atrocities and crimes against humanity. Since those necessary changes were never in the cards, what was inevitable was a grand public relations ploy, which is what we got from the Obama regime, along with greater repression, the continued perfection of the American Total Police State, and the making routine of a program of global assassination, which is now a permanent feature of this planet, thanks to Barack Hussein Obama. We now have institutionalized state assassination on a weekly basis by the most terrifyingly powerful nation on earth. Thus has this egregious political hustler Obama reversed progress towards a human civilization.

1] Mehsud was killed in November 2013, just as the Pak civilian government was trying to start peace talks with the Paki Taliban- probably a futile endeavor, judging by past agreements with the medieval terrorist movement and its overall fanaticism and intolerance.

The other reason the terrorists offered as justification for the airport attack was retaliation for military operations in North Waziristan by the Pak military. The airport attack occurred on June 9^th. On

June 10^th, the terrorists attacked the airport police academy and the Pak military launched airstrikes on the Northwest tribal regions. The U.S. should leave the (immoral and counterproductive) bombings of civilian areas to the Pakis. If the Pak military wants to bomb Pakistani civilians because they don’t trust their soldiers to fight on the ground, at least the U.S. isn’t committing the war crimes and discrediting itself further.

2] Obama currently has ongoing drone assassination programs running against at least three countries: Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Hundreds of civilians have been killed in these attacks. The Obama regime deals with this fact in various ways: 1) ignoring the fact; 2) denying it; 3) minimizing the number of civilians killed, while refusing to name a number, address specific cases, or pay compensation; 4) constantly emphasizing the “precision” and “care” of the strikes; 5) saying nothing at all, and pretending the whole matter is “secret.” Yes, these all contradict each other, but that’s what you get with con men- a lot of contradictory blather and lies.

It’s an obvious lie to pretend they are killing exactly who they want to kill, and they know who they’re killing in every case. Many times people are killed on the basis of appearance alone. These are called, in CIA-euphemism, “signature strikes.” “Signature” means “they look like terrorists to us.” How might people in civilian garb in a tribal area “look like” civilians? Well, if they’re a group of men (women are kept indoors, as chattel, by these tribes.) Maybe they have guns, as do many men in these areas. (As do many groups of men on the ground in America- hunters, target shooters, “gun enthusiasts.” Millions of American men would be deemed “terrorists” and killed if the same criteria were to be applied here.)

As the Obama regime has never admitted to a single error in its drone “war,” can we then conclude that they deliberately blew up wedding parties, as has happened repeatedly in Afghanistan and Yemen? Or they meant to blow up a grandmother in a field? Or the 16 year old son of Anwar al-Alaki, and the son’s cousin, sitting outside a cafe in Yemen? If Obama and his regime won’t say these were mistakes, then we MUST conclude they were wanton murders. They’ve had enough time to answer for these crimes, and since they haven’t pleaded error, we are compelled to call them deliberate acts of murder. Let’s have no more mealy-mouthed circumlocutions offered up by people “questioning” the drone strikes. It’s past time for denunciation, not “questioning.”

A few year ago the Wall Street Journal revealed on its front page that the then-dictator of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was getting the U.S. to bump off his political rivals, even government officials, by telling the U.S. they were “terrorists” and passing along targeting information. The U.S. media ignored that aspect of the “drone program” after that one article. Lately we learned, thanks to Edward Snowden, that the NSA passes along cellphone data to be used to kill whoever happens to be holding the phone. (Better not view any jihadi websites on your phones, people!)

As I have observed before, part of this is how Obama compensates himself for his impotence in other areas. The power of life and death is a rush for those who lust after power. Obama even bragged that he was a good killer, in his capacity as weekly reviewer of the kill list- a boast he saw fit to have planted in the media by one of his minions. Guess he thought it would be good for his (gangster) image. If he thought the reactionaries and militarists, whose political vehicle is the Republican Party, would warm up to him, he was naïve about their fanatical partisanship. His fondness for “special ops” recalls a predecessor- Kennedy. Kennedy was smitten by the idea of U.S. state terrorism, and took the various “special operations” units of the military under his wing and expanded them. He also instituted a torture training program under the cover of the “Alliance for Progress,” an alleged program of social progress for Latin America which was just a cynical program of shoring up U.S. imperialist dominance against the Castro “threat.” Inside that program was something called the “Office for Public Safety,” which sent U.S. torture trainers like the notorious Dan Mitrione to Latin America to train fascists there in torture techniques to be used on progressives rounded up after the CIA gave them the victims’ names. (So much for “Kennedy liberalism” and “Camelot”!) Former CIA operations officer John Stockwell has revealed many details of Mitrione’s sickening crimes. His talks are widely available, such as on youtube.com, and he has authored books on the CIA.

Obama is an example of how power corrupts, morally. Not that he was ever moral- he’s an amoral hustler with the cunning to climb to the top of the slippery pole of the U.S. political system and snag the top prize. After he leaves office he will become a multimillionaire, and impose insufferably pompous, smug, and hypocritical rhetoric on us. [MORE ON DRONES BELOW.]

3] Organized brainwashing by the U.S. government goes back to at least the regime of Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921), an evil, virulent racist and the man who begat the modern U.S. police state. In order to whip up public war fever to enter World War One (after he ran for reelection in1916 on a peace platform, a double-cross repeated by his Democratic successors Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Barack Obama in 2008) he created the Creel Commission, a group of professional manipulators and indoctrinators. Wilson is also responsible for the so-called “Espionage Act,” a repressive law he used to imprison war opponents, and now used by Barack Hussein Obama to persecute whistleblowers and government employees who talk out of turn.

Here are some samples of what the U.S. government and media keep hidden under the rug, namely the price paid by civilians in the regions under surveillance and attack. But as with corporate pollution, the perpetrators don’t care because it isn’t them who pay the price. The only “cost” the U.S. cares about, maybe, a little, is dents to its own image.

Hidden reality of drone attacks in Pakistan:

Hidden reality of drone attacks in Yemen:

U.S. Drone Atrocities as of November 2013:

Also see for example, “Turning a Wedding Into a Funeral - US Drone Strike in Yemen Killed as Many as 12 Civilians,” Democracy Now!, February 21, 2014.

There are various organizations that attempt to track U.S. drone attacks. And in September 2012, legal clinics at the Stanford University and NYU Law Schools issued a copiously documented report, “Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians from U.S. Drone Practices in Pakistan.” Click on the “Stanford/NYU Report” link just below the page title for the report. There are also links to other reports farther down that page.