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Former Pakistan Army Chief: America is “a superpower that has made the world a dangerous land”

Feb 28, 2015 2:42 pm By Robert Spencer

Mirza Aslam BegFriend and ally indeed. “Former Pakistan Army Chief Gen. Aslam Beg: ‘America Is Not Just Any Other Country, But It Is A Superpower That Has Made The World A Dangerous Land,'” MEMRI, March 1, 2015:

In a recent article, former Pakistan army chief General Mirza Aslam Beg examined the geostrategic scenario emerging in Asia as a result of the growing India-U.S. military and economic relationship. It should be noted that U.S. President Barack Obama was chief guest at the Republic Day parade in New Delhi on January 26, 2015.

In the article, published by the Urdu-language daily Roznama Ummat, Beg argued that India-U.S. relations are giving birth to a new reality in which India is required to counter the growing influence of China in the region, and the U.S., India, and Japan are coordinating their actions as part of a grand strategy.

Beg argued that this geostrategic transformation is paving the way for China, Russia, and Pakistan to work together, along with Afghanistan, which, he noted, has kept India and the U.S. separate from its new policy to engage its neighboring countries such as Iran and Russia.

The following are excerpts from the article:

“The Objective Of The India-U.S. Strategic Partnership … Is To Establish India’s Hegemony In The Region From Afghanistan [Through Pakistan] To Bangladesh; This Was The Thinking Behind The Declaration Of Afghanistan As Part Of South Asia”

“There is a face to the factors determining South Asia’s geostrategic shape, which is derived from [Indian Prime Minister Narendra] Modi’s ‘Act Asia’ strategy [editorial note: the Indian policy is called ‘Act East,’ having evolved from ‘Look East’] and Obama’s ‘Pivot to Asia’ policy. In reality, the gist of the two strategies is the failed policy adopted in the aftermath of 9/11. The objective of the India-U.S. Strategic Partnership prepared in 2005 is to establish India’s hegemony in the region from Afghanistan [through Pakistan] to Bangladesh. This was the thinking behind the declaration of Afghanistan as part of South Asia; India benefited from this thought, and by joining hands with the allies [in Afghanistan] thrust the scourge of terrorism [on Pakistan] and established centers of espionage against all neighboring countries, especially Pakistan.

“In 2005 itself, a civil-nuclear pact was agreed [between the U.S. and India], to get that which India voted against regarding the Iranian nuclear program [in a resolution at the UN International Atomic Energy Agency in November 2009]. And by allying with America and its allies, [India] was emboldened to play its role against the growing dangers of Islamic extremism in the region. Sadly, America and its allies were badly defeated in this objective [as the Taliban thrived in Afghanistan]. Recently, Modi has given a new geostrategic direction to the region by befriending America… By rejecting its ideology as a member-country of the Non-Aligned [Movement], India has adopted an aligned identity, getting tied in a long-term military relationship from the Gulf of Aden to the Straits of Malacca. This agreement will be effective for ten years. Besides, signatures have been put to defense, technical, and trade agreements, as per which India will become capable of building aircraft carriers.

“India has also become part of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, established by America and Japan, under which it is practically bound to break up China’s New Silk Road Partnership. In addition, India is also bound to counter the growing influence of China. Therefore, China has obtained many advantages [via agreements] through the Euro-Asian Land Bridge land route built by it and the String of Pearls ports in several countries which are spread from the Middle East to China [through the Indian Ocean]. China’s growing influence and reach is unacceptable to America, India, and their allies.

“Modi’s important goal is to help the fruits of economic progress reach the poor people. Modi’s goal is not to make the fruits of economic progress reach people as per the ‘trickle down’ principle behind the established international economic system; his goal is to make the fruits of ‘trickle up’ progress reach the poor class for which it will be essential to depend on goods manufactured within the country [hence, the ‘Make in India’ strategy adopted by Modi]. Obama’s goal, too, is to make India an important power in Asia by enabling its economic progress because America considers India’s power as important to the achievement of its objectives. For the achievement of this goal, the supply of American technology [to India] will be very beneficial, a fact that Modi understands well.”

“The Clear Target Of India-U.S. Strategic Partnership Is To Limit The Growing Power Of China”; “But In Response To It, An Environment Of Understanding In Military And Economic Relations Between China, Pakistan, And Russia Is Being Smoothened”

“Therefore, India and America have set a goal to take their bilateral trade from $100 million to $500 million [sic, actually: $100 billion to $500 billion], which equals bilateral trade with China. Additionally, the purpose of Obama’s visit to India [to be the chief guest at the January 26 Republic Day parade in New Delhi] was to find a formula under which concerns since 2005 about India’s atomic law [which require economic costs for foreign companies in the event of nuclear disasters] could be addressed and India could be supplied with atomic technology. An agreement has been reached to this effect.”

“[…] On the contrary, during the 1950s, which was the era of Cold War, Pakistan was forced to become the ally of America, but as a result of its policies it had to go through difficult experiences because its powerful partner used Pakistan to suit its needs, and when there was no need [for Pakistan] turned its eyes away. The worst example of this was set in 2001 when Pakistan was told [after 9/11]: ‘either you are with us or against us.’ Scared, Pakistani took an immoral and illogical decision to participate in the American war against the brother Islamic nation of Afghanistan, as a result of which Pakistan had to bear irreparable losses, and continues to bear them even now. Situations emerging in recent times are extremely difficult for Pakistan, especially since terrorism and political fragmentation has spread inside the country, and there is a situation of war on our north-western borders [along Afghanistan].

“However, even in this entangled scenario, there are hints of hope which require us to make decisions with understanding and foresight, and derive full advantages from these opportunities. At the logical level, it is correct to say that the clear target of India-U.S. strategic partnership is to limit the growing power of China. Surely this is a cause of worry for China, but in response to it an environment of understanding in military and economic relations between China, Pakistan, and Russia is being smoothened, which will open new paths for Pakistan’s security. At the ‘Heart of Asia Conference’ organized in Beijing [in October 2014], Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced that decisions for the future of Afghanistan will be made in a unique way, for which he has established close relationships with the six neighboring countries – Pakistan, Iran, China, Russia, and [some] Central Asian countries; and excluded from this are India and America, due to whose conspiracies the situation of civil war was born in 1990s Afghanistan. Therefore, the Afghan nation has now decided that it would not enter anyone’s deception…

“This is a precious moment for Pakistan to pave the way for new foundations of Pakistan-America relations based on mutual respect and interests. Therefore, it is essential to keep this point in mind that America is not just any other country, but it is a superpower that has made the world a dangerous land. In the recent past, wherever America intervened it has only left behind destruction, and such that even a dictator would not have caused. The examples of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria are in front of us. Therefore, this is important for us to understand how soon we leave America’s strong sinew (bear hug) and establish a confidence-full relationship so that it becomes possible to breathe freely in a free atmosphere.”

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  1. allah says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 2:52 pm

    Actually ISLAM is “a BULLSHIT ideology that has made the world a dangerous place”

    • Champ says

      Feb 28, 2015 at 3:24 pm

      …wow that’s quite an admission coming from “allah”, lol! BTW, I wholly agree.

      • mortimer says

        Feb 28, 2015 at 4:29 pm

        “a superpower that has made the world a dangerous land”…yes, dangerous for jihadists!

        Hurrah for the USAF!

        This proves what I suspected! The Pak military is comprised from top to bottom with jihadists. They built Osama bin Laden’s hideout a short hop from the front gate of the Pak military academy.

        • mortimer says

          Mar 1, 2015 at 9:17 am

          PROJECTION!
          Former Pakistan Army Chief Gen.(ret’d) Aslam Beg is projecting what he and his fellow jihadists were doing onto his perceived enemy. America was doing the opposite by hunting Gen. Beg’s guerillas.

          Pakistan played a duplicitous game after helping defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan. Their subsidies have to be linked to increased cooperation and progress in human rights. Pakistan could stop the jihad if they wanted, but they would have to close the madrassahs to do so.

        • Rick Ash says

          Mar 1, 2015 at 8:08 pm

          mortimer,

          I agree with both of your posts. What a mess in the Middle East. So, i will ask you the same 2 questions that I ask of other persons that hold views similar to my own….

          Have you ever seen a photo of Osama bin Ladens’ body?

          Do you think Obama is complicit in the DHS funding issue? Thank God that Obama has no $$’s, Congress has the purse.

          Just thinking out loud, I have to wonder if Holder will run for President in 2016. A lot of my friends think that Obama will not leave when his term ends. For me, the larger, current concern is what BHO will do to our Republic over the next 2 years!

          Thanks,

          Rick

  2. cs says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 3:07 pm

    Cut all the financial help.

    • john spielman says

      Feb 28, 2015 at 3:47 pm

      absolutely , ….. and give it to INDIA

      • cs says

        Feb 28, 2015 at 5:01 pm

        Yep

    • umbra says

      Mar 1, 2015 at 2:15 am

      … then the pakistani airforce will end up flying paper planes and kites.

  3. Neil Jennison says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 3:14 pm

    Well far be it for me to defend US foreign policy, but it is a bit much for a Muslim high in the hierarchy of a failed state like Pakistan to lecture others.

  4. Angemon says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 3:49 pm

    Big words from a failed state that lives off international welfare (jizyia) and hasn’t clean its own backyard (the taliban), nor does it seem willing to…

    Perhaps it’s time for the international community to stop giving aid to Pakistan.

  5. BlueRaven says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 4:06 pm

    I do not understand Pakistani drivel.

  6. Ed says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    Carter -> Destruction of secular Iran
    Bush W -> Destruction of secular Iraq
    B Hussain O -> Attempted destruction of secular Egypt, destruction of secular Libya, empowering Muslim Brotherhood, destruction of DHS

    • Don McKellar says

      Feb 28, 2015 at 6:48 pm

      You can add a few more countries to that list for Osama bin Obama. You could also add that he finished the job that Bush (THE IDIOT) W started with Iraq. In fact, you could add up the blunders and fuck ups of Carter and George The Idiot with regards to destroying global stability and secular sanity and Osama bin Obama would surpass them by a few times… but then, he’s doing it ON PURPOSE, while Carter did it from incompetence, and George The Idiot did it from being played for the fool he is by the evil Cheney in the interests of Big Oil and the US Military Industrial Complex and all their contractors.

      • Ed says

        Mar 1, 2015 at 9:17 am

        Good point. BHO is deliberate and knows what he is doing.

        B Hussain O -> Empowering Iranian/Shia caliphate, destroying USA and Israel.

  7. Wellington says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 5:23 pm

    Just like a Pakistani to get it exactly ass backwards. A world without America, and especially a world without the American military, as Mark Steyn has opined, would be a world that would be subject to the tyrants of the earth. Anyone doubting this need only look back over the past hundred years of mankind with one difference——no America. Does anyone with even a shred of sense (this of course will leave out a lot of people) think that the past century without America, everything else the same, would be a world that would be better off? This doesn’t mean that America has done no wrong. Of course it has. But, I submit, with all its faults America is, as Abraham Lincoln stated, the last best hope of mankind.

  8. Jay Boo says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 6:42 pm

    Soon Muslims will finally wake up to their self-imposed nightmare and realize that Islam is so kill-crazy that it is hazardous even to Muslims.
    Ten years from now Pakistanis in Islamabad will no longer be shouting about Allah because they will be too busy drinking cerveza and dancing the Samba.

    • Wellington says

      Feb 28, 2015 at 7:33 pm

      Wow, Jay Boo, you are indeed an optimist. Understand, I hope you’re correct, but man’s capcacity to believe in stupid things, even to an ad nauseam and suicidal degree, often outweighs all else.

      No better example of this, I submit, is the wretched faith which goes by the name of “Islam” and which is still adhered to by way over a billiion fools. But, by all means, may cervezas aplenty be raised in Islamaverybad a decade from now. If so, what a corner will have been turned, not just for Pakistanis but for all mankind.

      Verdict still out however.

      • Jay Boo says

        Feb 28, 2015 at 9:22 pm

        Muslim men can continue to bang their heads on the floor sit back with:

        A cold beer, some good Portuguese pork sausage chouriço sandwiches, and pretty ladies dancing the Samba.

        Enjoy

  9. pongidae rex says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 1:26 am

    There is a palbable angst that the US to Pakistan money spigot may dry up and that avenues of geo-strategic Islamist blackmail are disappearing as that entire region is written off as hopeless. The fact is that Pakistan is a failed state with huge humanitarian problems caused by overpopulation that no one wants on their doorstep or in their budget.

  10. Baucent says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 1:38 am

    Pakistan has never been either a friend nor strategic parther with the West. They play the double game running with both the Fox and the Hounds, and it’s time to cut the sugar line they are sucking on.

    Cancel the billions of dollars of military and economic and build up the relationship with India, a much more suitable friend and rival of Pakistan.

  11. Charli Main says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 5:07 am

    The only thing that Pakistan has ever been brilliantly successful at, is exporting tens of millions of its citizens to other countries, to house, feed and educate.

  12. BC says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 5:39 am

    A country which is heavily subsidised by USA and EU funds, while at the same time giving safe haven to the Taleban who are dedicated to killing the soldiers of those countries, and is now suffering from them itself. A classic case of chickens coming home to roost

  13. Keil says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 6:18 am

    Pakistan has always been a doubtful ally – nothing new. As a Moslem nuclear power that miserable country is the power most dangerous – to neighbors, to women, to world peace. Israel does right in collaboration with India in high-tech defense.

  14. Demsci says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 6:58 am

    Good news coming through a Pakistani general. Already I read in Peter Zeyhan’s book “Accidental Superpower”, that the rationale for an alliance between America and Pakistan is evaporating. And India is a much much better allie (and cannot be allie with America together with Pakistan, as I. + P. are enemies). India, as Japan is, is also democratic. A great tree-state alliance!

    Against the other 3-state-alliance of China, Russia, Pakistan. China + Russia are the 2 biggest autocratic states, and Pakistan did have elections, but …. is in many ways, especially Islamic ways, so hopeless!

    I am glad the West witdrew from Afghanistan, also an “impossible” Islamic state. India is a so much more natural and WILLING power than the AFPAK’s, or rather “most, but not all” Islamic peoples seem to be. I wish China and Russia good luck with being allies to THEM. let it be! Let us concentrate on the 120 or so democratic countries!

    • umbra says

      Mar 1, 2015 at 11:22 am

      Neither Russia nor China wish to be allied with pakistan. However, they may sell pakistan military hardware (China has and continues to do so) as long as pakistan pays them. Economically, pakistan is of minimal importance to both Russia and China, having very little in the way of useful a natural resource (oil, gas, minerals) and quasi stagnant market for exports.

      India is a superior choice for a partner anyday of the week, especially …

  15. Mahendra Singh says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 3:37 pm

    Stop all Zakat to Pakistan with immediate effect.

  16. wordnam says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    2 Questions. This seems like a pretty sharp group currently logged in.

    Has anyone ever seen a photo of Usama bin Laden’s body?

    Obama has no $$’s. Congress controls funding. So who is holding up a full extension of DHS funds and how?

    Thanks,

    Rick

  17. M S case says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    Well our Air Force just took a B52 out of mothballs…………Wonder what some carpet bombing and fire bombing would do for the situation in the mid east… Oh we couldn’t do that could we???

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