US officials have announced the acceleration of a counterinsurgency training program for Pakistani forces, as well as the distribution of funds to be used for further arming of the Pakistani army. The program will send US Special Forces to the region; these Special Forces will be allowed to participate in combat with “insurgents” with the permission of Pakistani officials. This is expected to cost the US Federal Government at least $157 million a year over the next five years.

This news comes despite a financial crisis at home and the reality of what $10 billion over the last seven years in Pakistan has bought the US. (namely chaos and failure) Washington has decided to keep pumping cash into the country.

The stated reason for this aid package is to help stabilize the country over the next five years. If $10 billion did not do the job, I doubt $157 million a year will. Well, it is not difficult to see other goals that Washington is hoping to accomplish by making this agreement.

The first is that Osama Bin Laden is believed to be in northwestern Pakistan, a region where US Special Forces will be carrying out actions against insurgents if Pakistan requests their help. I have little doubt that the plans are already in place for the Special Forces to be active in combat and not just training, most likely Pakistan wanted to maintain the allusion of control.

That is the real victory for the Pentagon in this deal, the allowance by the Pakistani military for US Special Forces to operate inside of Pakistan.

The capture of Osama Bin Laden at this point would be only a symbolic feat. But it would be a timely political achievement in this a Presidential election year. It could be framed as the Bush administration tying up the loose ends of their war on terror and they would be able to claim a short-term victory. In reality it would mean nothing and it could have been done long ago. In short: too little to late.

The second goal this deal will accomplish is to officially extend the United States military empire’s iron curtain further east to China’s and India’s western doorstep.

In the US media, sometimes in the effort to cover the most recent geopolitical development, we lose sight of and do not talk about the equation that extends to future generations of those unborn. But the reality is that India, China and even Russia are all very aware of the United States military slow and steady creep east (this is exactly why the neo-cons want Iran to be dealt with soon, they are nothing more than a stubborn holdout in the eyes of the grand planners). These three countries are not sitting back on their heels but rather preparing militarily as well as, in China and Russia’s case, developing economic relationships with Saudi Arabia, Iran as well as northeast African countries. Although a military confrontation with China, India or Russia will not be a reality in the near future, lines are being drawn and alliances are quietly forming.

If there was still any doubt, this latest deal with Pakistan should confirm that the US military industrial complex has completely turned its back on the American people.

The United State’s vast global empire now almost seems to be a rouge state, out of the control of the citizens who pay for it; the empire is charging forward eating up Federal money and manpower, despite the fact that the resources it is consuming are desperately needed in the continental 48.

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