The Hawk in the Sky
In the lands of the Pashtuns, there is an old saying –
The eyes of the dove are lovely but it’s the hawk with it’s talons that rules the sky…
It is quite ironic that this age old Pashtun saying be used to describe their present nemesis – United States of America. But, such are the strange ways of the world. Anyways, the United States of America is entrenched in Afghanistan and no matter what the generals say, it wil be there for some time to come. They are fighting the enemy that simply refuses to vanquish. Infact, the Afghan Govt is largely invisible outside Kabul. In the countryside, the night letters have proved stronger than the writ of Karzai. One can gauge the situation by considering that the Obama administration and the Karzai government have made not-so clandestine attempts to ‘reach out’ to the Taliban recently. Even after the recent surge in operations against the Taliban in Pakistan, the menace doesn’t seem like vanishing in a hurry. The Taliban are doing to the US what they did to the Soviets and the US is doing what the Soviets did. So, I wonder what about the typical American good guys and the Communist bad guys scenario. Was there even ever such a scenario ?
George Bush regularly spoke about an axis of evil . And the world listened as he bombed people across Afghanistan and Iraq on flimsy excuses. This is not the first time the US has committed mass murder. It’s entire history is checkered with inhuman travesties . America is no land of peace, it’s a monster that engulfs everything for it’s own excesses – much like Galactus and ‘democracy’ is it’s silver surfer. What right does the US have of teaching human rights to other nations after Gitmo, after using Agent Orange in Vietnam, after bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. America is worse than Germany under the Nazis. People don’t recognise it’s evil because it’s just got a great PR department. So, what I’m trying to say is that – Might is Right !
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“The Hawk in the Sky”