EIR's Claudio Celani participated in a PTV News debate yesterday, on “The U.S. Blame-Game against Pakistan,” together with analyst Prof. Riffat Hussein and TRT Kabul correspondent Hasan Abdullah. Moderator Faisal Rehman asked about the proposal by U.S. senators to open an investigation into Pakistan’s role in the American debacle in Afghanistan, and into its consequences. Celani explained that this comes from members of the pro-war faction in the US, who do not want to accept President Biden’s decision to pull out of Afghanistan. The initiator of the draft bill, Sen. Risch, is on record pushing for sanctions on Syria, which shows that he has no consideration for human rights and the suffering of entire populations.
Celani explained that this U.S. faction does not want to give up regime-change wars, contrary to what the President has expressed. The British, who have dominated US foreign policy through their geopolitical thinking, are particularly upset, as former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s reaction shows. They and their allies in the US establishment are afraid that the “special relationship” is endangered.
The Biden team wants to go back to diplomacy in foreign policy, but they must abandon British geopolitical thinking; otherwise, the danger of a war by miscalculation will not disappear. This is visible in the next step taken by the US, the formation of the AUKUS military alliance.
