Zahir Ebrahim, Project Humanbeingsfirst.org, United States of America
Letter To Editor, March 25, 2009
I
cannot but help completely agree with the greatest Pakistani
physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy
whose unsurpassed political brilliance routinely penetrates all that
ails Pakistan. He is once again quoted in the foreign press, in this
instance, this morning's New York Times in their Mighty Wurlitzer's
neurolinguistic programming piece “U.S.
Weighs Sharif as Possible Partner”, March
25, 2009, astutely observing:
'“Nawaz
Sharif is a reflection of Pakistani society,” said Pervez
Hoodbhoy, a physicist and a critic of current government policies.
“He is silent on what matters most: the insurgency. What we
need is a leader.”'
The
three fantastic points of agreements I have with prodigy scientist
Pervez Hoodbhoy are entirely captured in that one short passage. It
is quite an honor for me to have such a distinguished Pakistani
physicist reflect my own humble contentions which no instrument of
the patricians will otherwise ever bother to quote or cite, for a
lowly plebeian can seldom find a place-setting at their high Tea
Parties:
1:
“Nawaz Sharif is a reflection of Pakistani society,”
Undoubtedly,
the Pakistani society was galvanized by Nawaz Sharif's catalyzing
chutzpah to finally overcome their years of apathy to courageously
assert: I have had it up to my neck and am not going to take
it anymore. Felicitations to the Pakistani society were noted
in the Open
Letter to Aitzaz Ahsan of March 16, 2009 (
http://tinyurl.com/dcovnf ).
2:
“He is silent on what matters most: the insurgency.”
Indubitably,
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical
point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning
certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced
opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most
eloquent denunciations.”
Pervez
Hoodbhoy's insightful lament on silence
about “what matters most”
I am sure, principally stems only from his idealistic concerns of its
propagandistic impact on social discourse as expressed by Aldous
Huxley above, and therefore, must also include all pertinent
omissions of crucial significance, including those
noted in the OPEN
LETTER TO NAWAZ SHARIF – THE ROAD AHEAD March 17, 2009
( http://tinyurl.com/c5vpfu ):
a)
never asserting that stopping the drone attacks from Pakistani
territories is your mandate;
b)
never asserting that Pakistan military's job is to defend the nation
and its peoples from external threats and not to wage war upon its
own innocent peoples, men, women, and children, at the behest of, and
payment from, those threatening the country's very existence;
c)
never asserting that the 'war on terror' is a manufactured fiction
that is sinking Pakistan into oblivion;
d)
never asserting that 911 was a false-flag operation to create the
pretext for a “New Pearl Harbor” to enable pre-planned
“imperial mobilization” enroute to 'one-world'
government;
e)
and most importantly, never unequivocally asserting that this is NOT
PAKISTAN'S WAR and that we must DISENGAGE NOW!
3.
“What we need is a leader.”
Agreeing
with Pervez Hoodbhoy once again in what is palpably a universal
truth, the dire urgency for un co-opted
national leadership before the existential question of “To
be or not to be” is unequivocally answered by the
hectoring hegemons on their terms, is un-apologetically spelled out
in The
Day After – American Agenda for Pakistan March 21, 2009
( http://tinyurl.com/ctdbps ).
The
fact that these remarkable three points of agreement are not
insignificant for the future of Pakistan, is demonstrated by the same
New York Times article which further elaborated on how Machiavelli is
to be employed by the native-informants to harness the public's
sentiments in order to credibly foster the American Agenda:
'Maleeha
Lodhi, a former Pakistani ambassador to the
United States, said Washington’s suspicions of Mr. Sharif might
actually be helpful. “He is sufficiently distanced from the
United States to be a credible partner in the eyes of Pakistanis,”
she said.'
Not
to have the emerging leader be outshined by
a mere former ambassador, the New York Times also cites Mr. Nawaz
Sharif as voluntarily being part of the American equation provided
all his buttons are pressed in the right order:
'Mr.
Sharif, in a recent interview, emphasized the similarities between
the approach he would take toward militancy and that currently being
discussed in Washington, including separating the Taliban, whose
members can be talked to, from Al Qaeda, whose adherents cannot.'
And
to doubly ensure that any newly installed legal maestro wouldn't be
an impediment to the American Agenda in Pakistan, the New York Times
further notes what those right buttons might be:
'Aitzaz
Ahsan, the leader of the lawyers’ movement, said it would not
be difficult for the United States to work with Mr. Sharif. On March
15, the Sunday of the protest, Mr. Ahsan accompanied Mr. Sharif in a
two-and-a-half-ton, bulletproof Land Cruiser, as the men were swamped
by crowds.
Their
time together, Mr. Ahsan said, revealed an important characteristic
about Mr. Sharif that Washington should know. “He’s about
personal relationships,” he said. “If you befriend him,
you can get him to move mountains.” '
Indeed,
“If you befriend him, you can get him to move mountains”
to foster the American Agenda.
Thank
you.
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The
author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary
geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied
EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley
(patents here),
and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden
2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web
at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org.
He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org.
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