The Americans are laughing - Dr Muzaffar Iqbal

Pakistan, however, is a new story: it is not so much the regime that needs to be changed, for it is a client regime for all practical purposes, but the uncontrollable "militants", who have already become direct targets of American drones with or without the consent of the recently installed regime. There are also other reasons to attack Pakistan: it has developed nuclear weapons which America would like to destroy or control because of its fears that these weapons might get into the hands of "extremists". So, if the marines land in FATA, they will open a new chapter in American aggression, unlike any that has taken place before in Guatemala (1954), Congo (1961-5), Cuba (1961), British Guiana (1961-6), Laos (1961-73), South Vietnam (1961-5), Brazil (1964), Dominican Republic (1961-6), Indonesia (1965-6), Cambodia (1970), Kurdistan (1971-5), Chile (1973), Angola (1975), East Timor (1975), El Salvador (1979-91), Nicaragua (1981-8), Grenada (1983), Panama (1989), Somalia (1992-94), or Haiti (1994 and 2004). It will be an aggression of another order against an enemy who would not be in a presidential palace. It will be an adventure unlike any America has undertaken in its entire history.

What America is after is not the ragtag groups all lumped together in that catch-all phrase, Taliban, nor the tribal people, but the last resistance against its global hegemonic ambitions. This last resistance comes from those who have not submitted to the American might because of their attachment to another vision of life and death. They refuse to cowardly say 'we cannot wage war against America'. They do not fear the new pharaohs, for they believe in a supreme and sublime message. This last resistance stands in the way of the empire builders and thus, it is not surprising that both Obama and McCain are obsessed with it. Just last week, the McCain campaign team sent 28 million copies of "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West," bundled as free DVD insert into newspapers. The film features scenes of Muslim children being encouraged to become suicide bombers, interspersed with those of Nazi rallies. The two-year-old film, produced by Raphael Shore, a Canadian who lives in Israel, and directed by Wayne Kopping of South Africa, likens Islam to Nazism. The film was so revolting that no traditional distributor accepted it when it was first produced, but now more than 70 newspapers across America have spread this message of hate so that McCain can cash in on fears of American voters. Democrats are quickly learning this fear mongering, which has become the trademark of Bush-Cheney strategy. The DVD is can be viewed for free on YouTube.