Damage control, certainly....and a policy shift, too?? Perhaps...

Pakistan's neo-colonial client ruling apparatus carried out a massive damage control exercise over the latest US Drone attack, on Datta Khel in North Waziristan Agency, that killed 45 tribal maliks. This was clearly damage control, as just one day prior to this attack, the Pakistani regime and its key army intelligence agency had engineered the deal in which imprisoned CIA operative Raymond Davis, who was being held in connection with the murder of two Pakistanis - was released in exchange for a huge amount of Islamic "blood money" totalling $2.3 million, paid to the relatives of the murdered victims and others involved in brokering this deal....The two men Davis had shot in panic, were apparently Pakistani secret agents who had been "tailing" him for quite some time. They too were armed, and he mistook them for robbers, it is said.

But the coming of the Datta Khel drone attack so fast on the heels of this most unpopular release was considered as adding fuel to an already raging fire; may be the Americans also did it in the kind of infantile fits of flamboyant arrogance for which they are so infamous - which is why their neo-colonial proteges, who have governed Pakistan since its creation 64 years ago - were not only take aback, but they had to think of defending themselves against mounting public reaction too. In any way, it seems that the inevitable systemic and social pressures - generated in the US-Pakistan patron-client relationship since its first malfunction in 2001 (9/11) - and which both have been desperately trying to contain since then, are making their way out, and are ripping this unholy and dirty nexus apart too. A US attorney (in Virginia) rightly said in 1997 - in remarks made during the Aimal Kansi shooting trial - that the Pakistani ruling classes are people who will gladly sell their mothers for $200 (as they did then, when they turned in US fugitive Pakistani Aimal Kansi to the US) - but if they now try to prevent their nexus with their US masters from tearing, their efforts will be in vain. This simply isn't that time anymore.

Now, Pakistan's Pashtun tribals have threatened to fight the US and avenge their blood spilt in such drone attacks......but this is actually a reiteration of continuing a fight that has already been going on for the last ten years - the fight of the Taliban (who are Pashtun tribals) against the US in Afghanistan and Pakistan's FATA and KP Province areas - so that announcement is not really any news at all, but just a fresh reiteration of resolve!

If the Americans were not such hypocrites and supporters of corruption and the corrupt globally, I would commend their FATA Tribal drone strikes. They sure know how to take the crap out of those who need it! But in the shameless role that they are now playing on the world stage, the Americans have reduced themselves to something lower than even Pathan (Pashtun) tribesmen......Americans themselves promote the ills they fight. They got their man Davis released through the use of the same Sharia law that they are striving to fight elsewhere (that is the basis for the excuse of their whole fight against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda). It is such base attributes as these, that will soon effectively seal the fate of this otherwise great nation and world power, and deservedly so. They think that because they are "on top", they have the right to do anything they wish. Such assumptions of theirs, might have to do with the lowly social origins of the majority of those otherwise hard-working and ingenious European people who settled America and created it. Or rather, it is more likely that their free-wheeling individualist "democratic" system and outlook that are responsible for it; the people of the Soviet Union were from the same lowly proletarian origins, but they had a tightly controlled system, that permitted no nonsense....but it went to the other extreme, and in the end - no extremes are good.......