The government seems to have woken up to what many observers had been suggesting for some time now: When it comes to building a strategic partnership, China is a much better choice for Pakistan than the US. This is obvious; as natural as water flowing from the hills to the plain. It is also obvious that, given the conflicting interests of China and the US in the region and their essentially different worldviews, we cannot boogie with both and will have to make a clear choice. Pakistan must disentangle itself from the deathly parasitic clutches of the global bully to embrace a brotherly neighbour. Together, the two truly friendly countries could contribute towards creating a better world, a world that is at peace and where countries strive for mutual prosperity through cooperation. The current US-made model for the globe is very different, thriving on war and exploitative acquisition of resources of weaker states. We should know by now that our future could only be very dark in its unscrupulous scheme of things, that we could only lose the violent scavenging games it plays with sharpened teeth and extended claws. For the less than couple of billion dollars of bad aid, if we continue to play to its destructive tunes, things would only get worse and we will never be able to establish durable peace in our neighbourhood. Peace does not play a role in the US script for the region or, for that matter, the world. If there were any doubts about the poisonous US-Pak relationship, they should be cleared by the recent US posturing around its clandestine and unlawful Abbottabad operation and the persistent drone attacks, despite strong requests, protests and warnings from a battered ally. The message from our superpower ally is that we should consider ourselves as good as occupied, thank the US for the less than couple of billion dollars of bad aid that we get and, in our gratitude, do exactly as we are told. As if we have not seen what happens in countries occupied by the US, where the global bully calls the shots. Afghanistan and our tribal areas are no isolated cases, the power-drunk USA, in its short history as the unchallenged superpower, has trespassed many parts of the world like a trigger-happy cowboy. In Afghanistan, the US started using war as a policy much before 9/11 happened. Though its military was not directly involved, it created with the help of its middle-eastern monarch-allies a crop of militant extremists, provided them weapons, training and strategy through the CIA-ISI nexus, and financed the jihad through illicit heroin production and trade under the free world umbrella. Today, its direct and heavy multi-layered involvement under the AfPak strategy spells disaster for the entire region.
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