Talk about not learning from past mistakes. The US seems to have learnt nothing from their catastrophic mistakes in Afghanistan by arming the Mujahideen who morphed into the Taliban or by arming Saddam and finally invading him and calling him a threat. Now they are doing the same thing in Pakistan.

The so called Iraq surge that is working is based on the same policy as well. Now the US is trying to arm the Pakistani tribes to prevent the rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Who knows what they will morph into in a few years. The Mujahideen morphed into the much hated Taliban and finally they were attacked. Saddam “USA’s own Bastard” as one President called in became a bastard that was invaded and killed.

I guess we are fools for still thinking of this flawed policies again and again as mistakes. Maybe they weren’t mistakes at all. Maybe that was what they wanted? I’m not a big conspiracy buff but how else do you explain this?

Arming them at one time and then arming someone else against them and then invading them and creating new threats and thus keeps the “wars” going and thereby the Military industrial complex going. So maybe, they were not and are not mistakes. Maybe they are cold cunning calculated plans. Make sense to anyone else?

Some excerpts from the article:

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A new and classified American military proposal outlines an intensified effort to enlist tribal leaders in the frontier areas of Pakistan in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, as part of a broader effort to bolster Pakistani forces against an expanding militancy, American military officials said.

If adopted, the proposal would join elements of a shift in strategy that would also be likely to expand the presence of American military trainers in Pakistan, directly finance a separate tribal paramilitary force that until now has proved largely ineffective and pay militias that agreed to fight Al Qaeda and foreign extremists, officials said. The United States now has only about 50 troops in Pakistan, a Pentagon spokesman said, a force that could grow by dozens under the new approach.

[Source: The New York Times] / Digg Story