This column was published on 06-09-2007. Has America changed in nine years? Read……
Quite clearly the policies of America are not guided by any passion for universal values of freedom, democracy and human rights. That is only a façade.
If this noble-looking package of high ideals had really been the prime motivating factor behind the policies of the land of Jefferson and Licoln, so many millions had not died as a result of the U.S operations worldwide, and so many despotic and authoritarian regimes had not flourished under American patronage and support. In fact the globe would not then have been transformed into an inferno of seething anger, fury, blood-thirst and gory crimes against humanity.
Perhaps the leaders of America would love to subscribe to the notion that America’s sole objective, apart from ensuring its security and expanding its interests, is to promote the culture of human rights and democratic values. And even if for the sake of promoting goodwill, we recognize the credibility of this American claim, we have excellent reasons to draw American attention to the fact that the results of all their endeavours and operations in the cause of freedoms, democratic values and peace have been totally contrary to the desired outcome.
But as initially argued, there is no weight in American pretenses to the love of freedoms and rights. The reason the American administration happens to be engaged in hectic efforts to bring about a power-sharing agreement between ‘very very enlightened General Pervez Musharraf’ and very very promising promoter of secular values—Madam Bhutto—is that in the American estimate the two are likely to keep competing for the favours of Washington—and thus are unlikely to pursue policies that are contrary to American interests.
What does not augur well for the U.S designs is the fact that both the intended “viceroys’ of Washington in Islamabad, happen to be much-too-strong personalities to function purely as pawns.
