Obama and Our Chickens...

Meanwhile, on the U.S. Elections’ front, JFK wanna-be is still confusing people with his name that rhymes with Osama. The other day, I had to make my colleague repeat his statement when he told me about Obama’s speech. On the first attempt of hearing, I had thought that may be Al-Jazeera had found another tape of Islamic-world’s-answer-to-Michael-Jackson from the caves of Waziristan. Anyway, my naïve colleague was so scared after listening to our local media’s version of the speech that I HAD to listen to what he had to say. He quoted Obama’s numerous statements from that speech. Some of the things he said:

“Make no mistake: we can't succeed in Afghanistan or secure our homeland unless we change our Pakistan policy.”

“We must make it clear that if Pakistan cannot or will not act, we will take out high-level terrorist targets like bin Laden if we have them in our sights.”

“We must expect more of the Pakistani government”

“The greatest threat to our security lies in the tribal regions of Pakistan, where terrorists train and insurgents strike into Afghanistan. We cannot tolerate a terrorist sanctuary, and as President, I won't.”

I must admit that upon hearing this I, too, felt bad maybe offended as well. Then clouds of misconceptions gave way to rational and logical thinking. After all he is right in saying all that; isn’t he? Pakistanis are definitely not doing enough in this grand War on Terror and we certainly need to do more. I mean more than 70 incidents of suicide bombings in the country, killing 500+ personnel of the army and police besides 320+ civilians since the dawn of 2007 obviously illustrate Pakistan is not doing enough. Even the terrorists are so bored of Pakistani military’s inactivity that they have decided to up the tempo of their activities just to get some tough competition. They are chickens coming home to roost after all.