Decline and fall of the American empire!

To Obama: “Violence and Belonging” Are Knudsen
The American war on terror has gradually escalated; from a war on Al-Qaeda to a War on Islam passing through a war on the Taliban. Despite repeated reminders from Hamid Kharzai, that Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden are not in Afghanistan but in Pakistan, the Americans continued to send troops and to kill Afghanis. With the arrival of Obama at the scene, the war on terror has been extended to fighting the religious fundamentalists in areas north of Islamabad. In these areas there is an amalgamation of Islamic teachings with the local cultures that over the years have produced fierce people that are ready to die than to deviate from them. This has been elaborately demonstrated by a Norwegian anthropologists, Dr Are Knudsen, who spent years in these areas and wrote many articles and a book by the title “Violence and Belonging”. The Americans should carefully consider the implication of their policy of putting pressure on the Pakistani government to carry out massive military operations; which will only help to shed more blood, increase defiance to US presence, swell the ranks of fundamentalists and multiply the number of suicide attacks. The Americans have already realised that their pressure will fire back at Zardari government and are trying to deflect the damage by implicating Mr Nawaz Shariff, the head of the opposition. Many believe that Pakistan may dump Obama the way Iraq disgraced G.W. Bush and Tony Blair.




Iraq Occupation Times once predicted that Iraq will be worse than Vietnam. The war on Iraq did tarnish US image, made a mockery out of its military power, sent home in bodybags over 5000 of its overt and covert operators and undermined its collossal US economy. And there is more to come.


Adnan, Iraq Occupation Times