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B. Muralidhar Reddy
This is what we call Pakistani conditioning of its Military Officers and the conditioning of their civilians too isn't any better. Not surprised that they as a Nation live in a 'paradise of their own'.
B. Muralidhar Reddy
NEW DELHI: The 9/11 attack was a Jewish conspiracy, the CIA runs the American media, MI-5 runs the BBC: commonplace conspiracy theories on the Internet and, as a U.S. military officer found out while he attended a course at one of Pakistan's premier military education institutes, common too among senior officers of the Pakistan military.
As the United States tries to “reset” its relationship with Pakistan and especially the country's powerful military, a May 12, 2008 U.S. Embassy cable from Islamabad about Colonel Michael Schleicher's experiences at the National Defence University ( 153436: confidential) shows that it is going to be a mostly uphill task.
The cable, a report of Colonel Schleicher's “perceptions of the course, his classmates and his instructors” as told to the Embassy's Political Officer, is a primer on the different universes that the U.S. and Pakistan inhabit; it shows that anti-American biases run deep in the military, despite the lavish bankrolling by the U.S.
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