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US Preparing To Attack Pakistan?

• lewrockwell.com by Eric Margolis

The latest victim of this sad truism is Pakistan, a loyal ally of the US since the dawn of our era.

President Donald Trump's visceral hatred of Muslims (never mind what kind, or why, or where) erupted this week as he ordered some $900 million in US aid to Pakistan to be abruptly cut off.  Trump accused Pakistan of lying and deceiving the US and providing a safe haven to Afghan resistance forces of Taliban (`terrorists' in US speak) battling American occupation forces.

Frustrated and outwitted in Afghanistan, US imperial generals, Pentagon bureaucrats and politicians have been trying to cast blame on anyone they can find, with Pakistan the primary whipping boy.  Next in line is the notorious Haqqani network which is blamed for most US military failures in Afghanistan, though its active combat role is modest.  I knew its founder, old man Haqqani.  In the 1980's, he was the golden boy of the CIA/Pakistani-led effort to oust the Soviets from Afghanistan.


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