THE METAMORPHOSIS

By Fatima Rizvi

The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown donned the mantle of poodlehood when he made the extraordinary claim that the Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan. This completed his ongoing metamorphosis and it is doubtful that any of his countrymen will be proud of their very own poodle especially when its ownership is across the Atlantic Ocean. Before him his predecessor was seen as the poodle much to the disgust of a Britain that is opposed to the US led war on terror and does not want its youth to die in the mountains of Afghanistan in a futile no-win struggle.

Gordon Brown's statement was not supported by any facts or any evidence. He was echoing what the US periodically says to deflect domestic opinion from the failure in Afghanistan after billions of US taxpayers' dollars have gone down the drain. Pakistan can be blamed because it is being paid for access. Public opinion in Pakistan is against the US precisely for what the US says after Pakistan has done more than anybody else. Gordon Brown probably wants some of the negative public opinion---so far Britain has been held in high regard for its restraint and maturity. Pakistanis are rightly outraged by the Brown statement and see it for what it is-a tail wagging gesture for brownie points.

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