Obama is Igniting Civil War in Pakistan

Since he came into office at the beginning of this year, American President Barack Obama’s administration has succeeded in lighting the fuse of the first outright civil war in Pakistan. The number of dead has reached 700 and military operations have leveled buildings and houses to the ground in some areas.

The American administration boldly incited the Pakistani government against the Taliban movement in Pakistan, ordering it to repeal the agreement in the Swat Valley and insistently demanding that it drag the Pakistani army into a fierce war against the movement, wreaking havoc in the northwestern areas of Pakistan.

After fighting broke out, the American administration did not conceal its glee. Recently, American Secretary of Defense Robert Gates expressed being “very satisfied” with the Pakistani military response to the Taliban advance. As for the Pakistani authorities, they are certain to continue to plunge into the war, in accordance with the Americans’ wishes. Pakistan’s Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani has pledged to “employ requisite resources to ensure a decisive ascendancy over the Taliban.” Furthermore, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said that the government has ordered the army to “eliminate Islamic terrorism.”

In Washington, President Obama and the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Presidents Zardari and Karzai, met and issued a resolution on “their determination to strengthen cooperation in the face of the Taliban threat and armed forces in Pakistan and Afghanistan.” Zardari pledged to President Obama that military operations against the Taliban would “go on until the situation returns to normal” in the Swat Valley.

In light of the Pakistani army’s entry into the war against the Taliban, America has increased its promises to give military and economic assistance to the Pakistani army and government. In Washington, Democratic Senator John Kerry and his Republican colleague, Richard Lugar, submitted a non-military aid proposal for Pakistan totaling 5.7 billion dollars over a five year period.

The American budget for 2009 includes an additional 400 million dollars to finance Pakistan’s military operations against the Taliban and 600 million more in civil aid.

This amount was put forth as part of a lump sum of 7.96 billion dollars approved by the House Appropriations Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives to finance America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

As for the 2010 budget, the White House requested 130 billion dollars to finance the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

These funds that America is pumping in to ignite wars in the Islamic world, and in Pakistan and Afghanistan in particular, will not help America achieve its colonialist goals or help its agents defeat the Islamists. The situation in Pakistan is complicated and sensitive, and it is likely to turn against America and its agents rather than eliminating the Taliban movement. American support for client governance will help to gradually increase the strength of the Islamists in Pakistan. Perhaps, at the end of the war, their chances of establishing the first real Islamic state in Pakistan will increase, at the expense of America and the West, eliminating America’s influence in the region once and for all.