Q 1: Why are you so
obsessed with the Taliban? Why are you so obsessed with Afghanistan? Why are you so obsessed with Pakistan? Why are you so obsessed with controlling the whole wide world?
Q 2: You are 315 million, a mere 4.5 percent of the world population, but why are you bent upon controlling the lives of the other seven billion?
Q 3: Remember, Iraq’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’? As a consequence, for the period 2003-2011, there have been”2.7 million post-invasion war-related deaths.” Why do you create excuses to go to war?
Q 4: Remember, Mohamed Atta, Waleed al-Shehri, Wail al-Sehri, Abdulaziz al-Omari, Satam al-Sugami, Marwan al-Shehhi, Fayez Banihammad, Mohand al-Shehri, Hamza al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Ghamdi, Hani Hanjour, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Majed Moged, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Salem al-Hazmi, Ziad Jarrah, Ahmed al-Haznawi, Ahmed al-Nami and Saeed al-Ghamdi? A total of 19 hijackers, of which 15 were Saudi nationals, others from Egypt and the UAE – none from Afghanistan. But, “as of October 2011, 5.6 million war-related deaths” in Afghanistan.
Q 5: Uncle, why is it that wherever you go death and destruction follows? Before Iraq and before Afghanistan there was the Persian Gulf War, the Vietnam War and the Korean War. Over the past 20 years, the US armed forces have been deployed in Bosnia, Liberia, Albania, Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Lebanon, Somalia and Libya. Imagine 10 countries over a period of 20 years. Why do you have to begin a new deployment in foreign lands every two years?
Q 6: President Bush (Sr), in his four-year tenure, invaded Panama and ordered Operation Desert Storm. President Clinton bombed at least four countries in his eight-year tenure – Serbia, cruise missiles into Afghanistan, a bombing campaign over Iraq and another one over Bosnia. President Bush (Jr), in his eight-year tenure, started both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Bush’s drones attacked both Pakistan and Yemen. In 2007, Bush’s AC-130 gunship also attacked Somalia. Why do you have to start a new war every two years?
Q 7: President Obama doubled and then re-doubled drone attacks into Pakistan and sent the same drones into at least five other countries, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and Libya. President Obama, in his four years, bombed Libya in America’s Operation Odyssey Dawn and ordered Navy SEALs into Abbottabad. O’ America, why do you have to start a new war every other year?
Q 8: Uncle, you assist, comfort and protect corrupt, repressive and dictatorial regimes, especially in the Muslim world. And then you ask, “Why do they hate us?”
Q 9: Imagine, nearly 50 million Americans live in poverty. Why then has Uncle Sam spent $3,000,000,000,000 on wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Q 10: Uncle, why can’t you live in peace with the rest of the world?
P S: Imagine, ‘inheritance taxes in America are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man’s funeral is Uncle Sam’.
The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad. Email: farrukh 15 @hotmail.com
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