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My many Pakistani friends are entitled to mind the suggestion that a foreign power would infringe on their hard-won sovereignty, especially given the history of US involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Equally, though, an American presidential candidate is entitled to give fair warning that we need Pakistan's cooperation in the tribal areas. The elephant in the living room is the Pakistani state's inability to exert full control over its own territory.
Here in the US, the mood since November 4 has been euphoric. We're still pinching ourselves. The previous regime had so habituated us to fear and loathing that we forgot to believe in hope and possibility. To at least 52.6 per cent of Americans, the moment feels almost like the fall of the Berlin Wall or the end of apartheid. There are many messes to clean up, much damage to undo. On Election Night, Obama urged us to put our hands "on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day". And Washington Post columnist Jim Hoagland nicely captured the tone already being set by the president-elect: "Prepare for bluster about enemies to become nuance about not-yet-friends; for ideology to cede to empirical practice; for co-opting to overtake confronting as a first resort."
Innocent Pakistanis are being killed by American bombs in Waziristan, and towns like Dera Ishmal Khan are suffering from the arrival of more refugees than they can absorb. The next US president will assume responsibility for this and many other tragedies. After he takes office, Obama will be culpable for any harm done by the United States on his watch. We don't yet know exactly how he will handle the fragile situation in and around Afghanistan. But given the character of the man, and the public mood - both global and domestic - a major US military incursion into Pakistan seems refreshingly implausible.
(Ethan Casey is the author of “Alive and Well in Pakistan: A Human Journey in a Dangerous Time” (Penguin India, 2005). He is currently working on a documentary film about contemporary Pakistan: “www.aliveandwellinpakistan.com”)
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My many Pakistani friends are entitled to mind the suggestion that a foreign power would infringe on their hard-won sovereignty, especially given the history of US involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Equally, though, an American presidential candidate is entitled to give fair warning that we need Pakistan's cooperation in the tribal areas. The elephant in the living room is the Pakistani state's inability to exert full control over its own territory.Here in the US, the mood since November 4 has been euphoric. We're still pinching ourselves. The previous regime had so habituated us to fear and loathing that we forgot to believe in hope and possibility. To at least 52.6 per cent of Americans, the moment feels almost like the fall of the Berlin Wall or the end of apartheid. There are many messes to clean up, much damage to undo. On Election Night, Obama urged us to put our hands "on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day". And Washington Post columnist Jim Hoagland nicely captured the tone already being set by the president-elect: "Prepare for bluster about enemies to become nuance about not-yet-friends; for ideology to cede to empirical practice; for co-opting to overtake confronting as a first resort."
Innocent Pakistanis are being killed by American bombs in Waziristan, and towns like Dera Ishmal Khan are suffering from the arrival of more refugees than they can absorb. The next US president will assume responsibility for this and many other tragedies. After he takes office, Obama will be culpable for any harm done by the United States on his watch. We don't yet know exactly how he will handle the fragile situation in and around Afghanistan. But given the character of the man, and the public mood - both global and domestic - a major US military incursion into Pakistan seems refreshingly implausible.
(Ethan Casey is the author of “Alive and Well in Pakistan: A Human Journey in a Dangerous Time” (Penguin India, 2005). He is currently working on a documentary film about contemporary Pakistan: “www.aliveandwellinpakistan.com”)
For more articles, Click on IIPM Article.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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B-schooled in India, Placed Abroad (Print Version)
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