SR on Taliban "chemotheraphy"
These are the words of my friend SR...dark and foreboding...he paints a picture that may well be played out~~~t
There is no doubt in my mind that the so-called 'Taliban' forces (I use it as a generic term, to describe militants and not any organization headed by Mullah Omar or Baitullah Masud etc.) will eventually over-run Pakistan and no power on Earth will be able to prevent it when that time comes. Perhaps there may still be time to prevent this from happening, but everything I see tells me that the power elites of this country are so completely oblivious to this impending fate that they will do nothing to reform their own rotten evil ways so as to prevent a mass reactionary explosion.
No matter what we say about the so-called Islamic-militants, no matter that we agree that they are stupid, evil, backwards, misguided, etc., etc., there are two facts no one can deny:
(1) these forces come from among the ordinary people, and, (2) they represent a popular rejection of the decadent status quo.
The people of Pakistan may not ever vote for the extremists, but they will stand by silently and accept them because they promise a change from the corruption, exploitation and injustice that is inextricably intertwined and woven into our social fabric.
The real culprits are the custodians of the status quo, not the Taliban. These militants are an inevitable reaction, a manifestation of the popular resentment against the elitist establishment.
Having spent the last two years in Pakistan, even someone like me -- a secular, westernized, free thinking person -- says not only that these forces WILL take over, but that they SHOULD take over.
Needless to say that when these forces take over they will destroy everything and the country will be ruined for at least two generations to come. BUT, there is one thing they will achieve. They will also destroy the corrupt elite (along with thousands of innocents, unfortunately). That is the only way the cancer of corruption in Pakistan will be destroyed. These militants are like chemotherapy against the cancer that is the entrenched establishment. The medicine is very harmful for the healthy body, but it is the only way you can kill the cancer. One hopes that this chemotherapy will not completely kill the patient. And if the patient survives, then he shall, hopefully, have been cured.
There is no doubt in my mind that the so-called 'Taliban' forces (I use it as a generic term, to describe militants and not any organization headed by Mullah Omar or Baitullah Masud etc.) will eventually over-run Pakistan and no power on Earth will be able to prevent it when that time comes. Perhaps there may still be time to prevent this from happening, but everything I see tells me that the power elites of this country are so completely oblivious to this impending fate that they will do nothing to reform their own rotten evil ways so as to prevent a mass reactionary explosion.
No matter what we say about the so-called Islamic-militants, no matter that we agree that they are stupid, evil, backwards, misguided, etc., etc., there are two facts no one can deny:
(1) these forces come from among the ordinary people, and, (2) they represent a popular rejection of the decadent status quo.
The people of Pakistan may not ever vote for the extremists, but they will stand by silently and accept them because they promise a change from the corruption, exploitation and injustice that is inextricably intertwined and woven into our social fabric.
The real culprits are the custodians of the status quo, not the Taliban. These militants are an inevitable reaction, a manifestation of the popular resentment against the elitist establishment.
Having spent the last two years in Pakistan, even someone like me -- a secular, westernized, free thinking person -- says not only that these forces WILL take over, but that they SHOULD take over.
Needless to say that when these forces take over they will destroy everything and the country will be ruined for at least two generations to come. BUT, there is one thing they will achieve. They will also destroy the corrupt elite (along with thousands of innocents, unfortunately). That is the only way the cancer of corruption in Pakistan will be destroyed. These militants are like chemotherapy against the cancer that is the entrenched establishment. The medicine is very harmful for the healthy body, but it is the only way you can kill the cancer. One hopes that this chemotherapy will not completely kill the patient. And if the patient survives, then he shall, hopefully, have been cured.
posted by temporal at 4/10/2009
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