Comments on: Election 2014: Death Knell of Strategic Depth? https://www.brownpundits.com/2014/04/06/election-2014-death-knell-of-strategic/ A discussion of all things Brown.. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:50:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: webasura https://www.brownpundits.com/2014/04/06/election-2014-death-knell-of-strategic/#comment-166 Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:39:36 +0000 http://www.brownpundits.com/2014/04/06/election-2014-death-knell-of-strategic/#comment-166 Well this is merely an 'ethical' argument. By this logic, in 1947 NWFP shouldn't have been made a part of the "Pakistan" project, etc. But history is witness that Pakistaniat is "thrust fully formed" in a top-down process onto a populace – especially one that is scared, angry and already softened to the basic tenets of the ideology. Pakistaniat (and its ideological predecessors down the centuries) is not about common sense, popular consensus and self-determined spiritual well-being. It is a schizophrenic combination of very ambitious local material interests working with powerful external forces, whipping up a psycho-spiritual need to be 'chosen' after creating a tense 'end of history' scenario, working opportunistically to expand its control of resources. Insha'Allah, it is only a matter of all Afghans succumbing to it, due to a sense of inevitability or seduction. Clearly, it is what Allah Insha's that matters, not the will of mere earthlings in an election.

"Violence and Kshātra: War, Religion & Philosophy" – http://parikramah.blogspot.com/2013/05/service-and-conflict-war-religion.html
"The Dasyu-Dāsa dynamic vs. "class struggle" theory" – http://parikramah.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-dasyu-dasa-dynamic-vs-class.html

]]> By: omarali50 https://www.brownpundits.com/2014/04/06/election-2014-death-knell-of-strategic/#comment-154 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:14:53 +0000 http://www.brownpundits.com/2014/04/06/election-2014-death-knell-of-strategic/#comment-154 In reply to sadhanag.

Indeed. I agree.

]]> By: sadhanag https://www.brownpundits.com/2014/04/06/election-2014-death-knell-of-strategic/#comment-153 Sun, 06 Apr 2014 15:11:42 +0000 http://www.brownpundits.com/2014/04/06/election-2014-death-knell-of-strategic/#comment-153 Just to point out, Pakistan being payed off to keep the peace would translate to less Taliban violence not necessarily to high voting turnout.

That Afghans did turn out in large percentages was solely their own choice and on their own agency. The turnout is what strikes against strategic depth rhetoric. Pakistan can't claim henceforth that Afghans reject democracy and Taliban fighting an elected Afghan government represents Afghan will.

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