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US and NATO out of South Asia

Lesson for Obama and the US

Chithra Karunakaran by Chithra Karunakaran
February 4, 2009
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Perhaps Obama will learn something new, (though that is unlikely), from this latest event in which so-called “militants” have allegedly severed the supply link for US-NATO forces by blowing up a bridge in the Swat Valley adjoining the Khyber Pass terrain (see Yahoo news copyrighted article, scroll below my post).

The US and NATO have NO role in South Asia. Zero, zilch, nada.

US-NATO forces have killed hundreds if not thousands of innocent Afghan and Pakistani civilians and falsely claimed they have killed “insurgents” or “militants.”
Q. Your unmanned U.S. drone can spot an “insurgent” or “militant” from the air because they are wearing T for Taliban or Q for Qaeda T-shirts?

One does not have to be a supporter of the Taliban or Al Qaeda or a so-called “Jihadist” to fairly state that the US forces and NATO forces are in fact the major insurgents and militants in South Asia.

India, Pakistan and other nation-states have a choice. The regional politics of South Asia can be played out, with much trial and error, but mostly with open hearts and minds, by the primary stakeholders — civil societies of sovereign nation-states of the geopolitical region of South Asia and through their one-state, one vote membership in the General Assembly (not the US-dominated limited-membership Security Council) of the United Nations. Or we can stupidly choose to have self-interested non-regional nation-states dictating and controlling our geopolitics. That’s the choice facing South Asia.

Lesson for Pakistan: A vibrant Civil Society in Pakistan is Pakistan’s only hope and it will do much to stabilize South Asia. Sixty years of growing state-sponsored terror on Pakistan soil has now backfired on Pakistan. When Pakistan’s new leaders claim “we are victims of terror” they are right but not entirely factually accurate. That claim should be restated thus: “We, Pakistan, are victims of terror because the terror we grew on our soil for 60 years, with US help, and exported to Kashmir and Afghanistan has now turned back to bite us.” As for Pakistan’s leaders saying India should not engage in the “blame game”, the question is: Is India NAMING Pakistan as a state sponsor of terror (with US complicity and financing)? Yes, it is. That is naming, not blaming. If the cap fits, Pakistan, wear it.

Lesson for India: That proposed Iran-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline ain’t never gonna work. It will be continually sabotaged, just like that bridge that was blow up today in the Swat Valley. The main reason the pipeline will not work is because the US does not want the pipeline, and will not allow the proposed pipeline to succeed. US policy in South Asia and West Asia is driven by anti-Russia, anti-Iran, anti-Palestine, pro-Israel, pro-Zionist expansionist militaristic and capitalistic market fundamentalism strategy to secure and privatize oil and natural gas resources throughout the world. The US is competing with both Iran and Russia for geopolitical influence and control over natural resources, in the South Asia and West Asia (inaccurately called The Middle East) regions.

So India, in terms of the proposed pipeline learn this lesson: Ditch it before you Pay for it. In fact Ditch it before you Build it. Maybe India can think about the pipeline again in five years, that is IF Afghanistan does not fall to the Taliban and Pakistan does not have a military coup, before then.

What India can do now (and it is a lot), is: Improve internal domestic and border and coastal surveillance to protect the people of India, their civil society and their cherished democratic and cultural institutions, by involving civil society , that means PEOPLE, civilians, citizens, residents, Bharat vasis,(not just the army, police and myopic foreign policy bureaucrats) in vigilance, surveillance and protection.

India, In terms of energy policy, Gain energy independence through funding and public-private partnering for green energy R&D in solar and wind sourcing. Exxon Mobil does not own the sun (yet), so India, use it. Go solar, go green, not nuclear.

As for national security, “If you see something say something” is a commonsense, proactive, preventive, pre-emptive, more cost-effective natural security strategy by every quantitative and qualitative measure, than rappeling commandos onto the roofs of hotels and religious and cultural centers in crowded urban areas, AFTER the state-sponsored terrorists have landed.

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Chithra KarunaKaran is a postcolonial sociologist whose most recent preliminary fieldwork (on Myth and Narrative as Lived Democracy) was undertaken in Erumely, Kerala, India, under a CUNY (City University of New York Faculty Research grant. She will conduct an activism workshop on behalf of NWSA/USA (National Womens Studies Association) at the World Social Forum (WSFIndia) in Mumbai in January 2004 titled "Women Re-Imagining the United Nations: Taking Power, Making Change." Dr. Karunakaran's journalism articles may be found at Calicutnet and Chowk (click on University Avenue) under her byline. Her family hails from Thalassery. Her late father was Director-General of the Geological Survey of India and Founder-Director of The Centre for Earth Science Studies, in Aakulam, TVM. Her late mother was Nalini Madhavan, also of Thalassery. Dr. Karunakaran, her children, Ganesh and Karl, and her husband, George J. McMinn live in the USA.

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