recently Asia Time's M.K.Bhadrakumar has been writing some very insightful pieces. In this column he seems to confirm my hunch for some time now, ever since the Headley 'deal' drama started unfolding, that at some level the US knew of 26/11 attacks and allowed them to happen, just to placate Pakistan:
...The speculation gaining respectability in Delhi is that Washington knew in advance about the Mumbai attack and deliberately chose not to pass on details to Delhi.
Indeed, Washington knew of Headley's repeated missions to India from 2006 but did not share the information with the Indians. Headley, in fact, visited Mumbai once even after the city was attacked. ...
For once, I agree with his analysis, that all this linked to US eagerness to depart from Afghanistan as soon as possible:
..The US's obsession is to somehow end the fighting in Afghanistan before the US presidential election campaign commences in 2012. The extent to which the US is beholden to the Pakistani military today is apparent from the about-turn lately by even a self-styled "agnostic" like the AfPak special representative, Richard Holbrooke, about the Pakistani military leadership's commitment to the fight against terrorism. ...
But, unlike some Indians who want the Americans to stay and 'finish' the fight before leaving, I believe its actually good that they left as soon as possible. All they have managed to do in their last 8 years in Afghanistan, is bring back Taliban to a power of strength. I feel, actually, this was their plan throughout. All that fight against the Taliban etc was mere drama - why would they have tolerated the airlifting of almost entire top Taliban ranks to Pakistan in the beginning of the war and the cross-border sanctuaries for Taliban militia to regroup there later on otherwise? Why would they have created a distraction by unnecessarily invading Iraq otherwise? Sad as it seems to say, the US is run by military-industrial criminal mafia. The entire 'war on terror' was a drama, a charade enacted with the help of pliant states like Pakistan, just so that their war machine was kept oiled and the attention of the US public was diverted from the serious (economic and otherwise) problems back home.
So I say, forget all that naive optimism, let these useless guys leave the region as soon as they can. the US has not won a single war after the 2nd world war - it lost disastrously in Vietnam and now going to, in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is the biggest supporter of regimes with abysmal human rights record the world over and the biggest perpetrators of crimes across the world. How can someone in their right mind expect this inefficient bunch to 'finish the terrorists' in Afghanistan? In contrast, India's military-intelligence has proved far more efficient and resilient. We have fought off any number of deadly insurgencies and terrorist uprisings in India. Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Mizoram, Nagaland Assam..the list of provinces where the fires of separatism have been doused is endless. The Indian state has great persuasive power and it has incredible soft power. Close to 2 decades after kickstarting the insurgency in Kashmir through its proxies and waves after waves of jehadi terror later, Pakistan is nowhere close to a mass rebellion in Kashmir. And in Afghanistan itself, the anti-Taliban war in 2001 was won largely on the strength of the Northern Alliance footsoldiers - another example of resilient and shrewd Indian foreign policy initiative. Don't forget Bangladesh, Sri Lanka etc.
So, I say, let them leave. We'll then finish the job!
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