Globeandmail Comments Rant On Pakistan,US and Canada

Wright from Halifax, Canada writes: The destruction wrought by the U.S. in reaction (not response) to 9/11 makes it clear the Bush admistration wants the entire Muslim world to pay.The destructive debacle in Iraq, the complete failure to deal with terrorists hiding in Afghanistan, and the unintentional strengthening of Iran as a major regional power have been the consequences--adding up to a grievous loss of U.S. credibility and influence--not to mention treasure and lives.The irony is that it has been ordinary Muslims' natural response to unprovoked U.S. aggression that has humbled "the most powerful country in the world."Afghans genuinely wanted the West to help them end decades of war and suffering, but the Americans blew their chance through heavy-handed blundering and cultural arrogance.Iraqis might have responded positively to Saddam's toppling, but U.S. aggression, carelessness and stupidity erased what civil society Iraq had, and opened the door to a murderous al Qaeda insurgency--where none existed before.By treating all Iraqi Sunnis as Saddam clones, the U.S. has driven Iraq into the hands of an Iran-supported Shi'a majority, which is only beginning to show its true colours. Iran will soon hold effective sovereignty over a much bigger chunk of the world's oil reserves, and Israel will be even less secure than before "shock and awe".Now the Americans are willing to destabilize Pakistan as well, by putting the weak, neophyte government in an impossible position vis a vis its citizens. I wonder what the U.S. will do when the first helicopter full of its Special Forces troops is shot down in Pakistan. Recent history has taught us to expect the worst.