Ike, you defended Pakistan's position very well. you are right to be proud of the fact that free speech is still allowed in your country. It is hard for people growing up here to understand your points of view fully. I can say many Koreans still believe CIA coordinated assasination of President Park, dictator, who tried to build his own nuclear arsonal against US warning. He headed on with Jimmy Carter that time. Without any follow-up game plan of CIA after assasination, Korean fell into another worsest dictatorship, President Chun. He pledged secretly not to develop the neuclear bombs. In return he would get US's full support of Mr. Chun's regime and business as usual. Do you know how many people were killed by him? Thousands. We never know rhe acutual numbers. The nuclear project was secretly desmantled and the chief of the project was killed by accident. Many Americans don't understand anti-American attitude in Korea you know.
Also, US government forcefully pushed Korean government not to develop medium and long-range missiles as well as supplied equipment not strong enough to invade the North Korea(G)-no Koreans want to do anyway. US never sold the most advanced airplanes and other military equipment even though Korean government want to buy. Only Israel and European allies (mostly British)can get them. I read Saudi too sometimes. Korea is one of the strong allies of US and will be. However Koreans have some animosity about US government involvement and policies during the dark era of dictatorship.
Every country who deals with US has problems with them especially when CIA is involved. Ususally US foreign policy is not followed through and shortsighted. US cannot use only force to achieve our goals by intimidating allies such as Pakistan. It is very easy for outsiders to see the different aspects.
My home country, Korea is just one of the countries who rise and fall in Korean peninsula for thousands' years. Koreans struggle to survive and arise from ashes. Pakistan is one of the countires in the sub-continent. Pakistans will do the same thing.
This atrocity is never allowed in any place in the world. It has to be stopped. The problem is how to stop. Without rooting out the cause of mass hatred, there will be another one. There will be terrorists all the time throughout history. Some of reasons are not started by US. It is long before US established. However, US is symbol of western civilization as a youngest member but the strongest and wealthiest one. That is why US is constant targets of terrorists.
Before taking major military action, US needs to have a comprehensive plan how to deal with roots throughout middle east, Indian sub-continent and Indonesia and Philippines. We have to deal with this crisis with cool mind not with anger and vengence. The consequence of mistake is too grave and painful for long run. The religious fanatics are one of the worst enemies. Those are the ones we have to deal with for years not months. We have to unite together to fight this war on terroism. We need full supports of other countries.
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