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12:30 a.m. - A review of the movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’,hunting Obama Bin Laden (Oops)!
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‘Waterboarding’ in the first two minutes just puts you off. A CIA thriller
however, Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark ‘Freakin’ thirty; despite its manywonderful qualities could be classified as just another technically proficientpile of balderdash. And it makes it abundantly clear that why the Pakistanis
had every right to be furious and to blame the United States of ImperialAmerica for all its woes.
You can see it all there -- the US’s arrogant, self-interested, ruthless,
unabated, hypocritical meddling in the sovereign affairs of another state nomatter how badly they deny it; leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Huh! To saythe least, it is highly controversial.
A scene in the movie “How do you like Pakistan so far? It’s kind of fuckedup”. I wonder, will this slander and foul language about a country which isthe US’s biggest ally in the war on terror in Afghanistan take you far? Makes
me further think is this what they usually do in the American Embassy inPakistan? Witch hunt for OBL! Pity the hordes and hordes of poor Pakistanis
who, on a daily basis fall in line at the US embassy to apply for immigrationor student visa. Is it worth it in the first place to leave the land of the pure
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and opt to settle in the land of opportunity; the nation which sends drones
on a monthly basis to kill our poorly undefended, women, children and theelderly in the Taliban infested tribal areas?
What I see as a plot here is to implicate Pakistan whatever come may and
indeed why not. Our army was caught with its pants down when OBL wasindeed found out to be living under the nose of the glorious army and in the
vicinity of the Pakistan Military Academy. What a shame! Were we involved?You bet my butt; we were.
The bitter pill of course here is the torture in the movie. Critics from the left
wing may argue that the film glorifies torture by suggesting it’s a useful wayof operating in developing countries, even though it was not used to make
any of the not-so-intelligent discoveries that led to the assassination of OBL.At best, it glorifies one particular agent and portrays her as the super
demolition woman in the entire script while battling against the bureaucracy
of the CIA as a whole. Gee thanks!
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OBL is dead but Pakistan is still alive and will continue to exist and no matter
how badly the western world wants to find and bomb our nukes; it will notbe possible. We may be crazy in the heads but we are not that foolish to putall our eggs in the same basket. The ‘Easter egg’ hunt may go on, the cat
and mice will continue to play, the canary in the gold mine will continue tofool you. Laughter
In the end, I would give full credit to Bigelow since her movie stops short of the US from really grasping that its empire-of-influence attitude to the rest
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of the world is hugely damaging both to non-Americans and to the standing
of the US itself.
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Shaikh Muhammed Ali‘The Wandering Dervish’ E-mail: [email protected]
Cell : +92-321-5072996
Date: 9th March 2013Time: 15:17 p.m. (+5 GMT)