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If you have read the last two books of the Harry Potter series, you’ll be acquainted fairly with the paradigmal difference between cruelty and humanism. Take Lord Voldemort for instance. He wanted to keep everyone under the thumb and be immortal. The only way he found to be immortal was to make horcruxes, curious devices which store a small portion of your soul.And in order to rip apart that part of your soul you have to kill someone for it is the only known way to split your soul into two in the Potter world. While Voldemort that by killing quite a few people and making several horcruxes he is getting stronger and stronger the fact remains he is only getting by each evil act weaker still for his soul is left badly scarred, unstable and truncated.
Frankly I don’t know whether anything apart from consciousness exists worth calling a soul or not, yet the lore of the horcruxes is a majestic literary device to show how the inner dynamics work despite absence of any external damage. Heroes whose enemies respect them are impossible to find in this mundane world yet in most cases we are lucky that our friends respect us. When like Voldemort all your socalled friends fear you instead of respecting you should know that you are not afterall a victor. Such folks are usually defied at the end.
But the problem here is of not Voldemort but Harry becoming evil and cruel. The reason why the US is powerful today is that the values it has long advocated like liberty, democracy and humanity are quite popular. Otherwise did the USSR not have more warheads than the US? If the US was seen during the cold war as a beacon of hope by many it was because its value system was more appealing to the world. When such a moral leader starts assailing its own allies, allies that have sacrificed quite a lot for it, you should know that the end is nigh.
Now take stock today. What has the US become? How can it be the champion of human rights when its human rights record at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib is a cause for shame? How can countries seek strength from your friendship when they fear that one day you’ll invade them? If the US wants to know whether it is getting strong or weak it should see it in the eyes of the families of those who it has killed thus far. Granted that on September 11, 2001 it had suffered a grotesque assault. It had lost about 3000 precious lives. That incident was a shameful chapter in the history of mankind. But it does not justify the deaths of the innocent people killed or being killed in the weakest countries by the US and its allies. Terrorists are threat to all but the US government needs to do more to show that these terrorists are not its allies planted to give it an excuse to invade poor countries and kill the innocent.
In fact I consider the neo-cons and their prince GW Bush the most wretched and unluckiest people in the world for spoiling something which could be so benign. Yes I am talking about the US. If the US not invaded not weak countries or killed innocent in its imperial hubris it would have been a savior of mankind. But that chance is wasted. Alas today Harry Potter has become another master of the horcruxes.
You know what, the recent assault on the Pakistani forces by the US, took place when the Long March against Musharraf was finally launched. For long Musharraf has threatened his generals that if he is sacked the US would invade Pakistan. So finally he and his foreign masters have decided to remind the Pakistani forces just that. We know that after Musharraf lost his clout in the army the American Pakistan policy has become rudderless. Miss Bhutto was assassinated because the US didn’t want Musharraf to be replaced by any democratic leader in the eyes of the pro-democracy westerners. Even now he is kept as a possible Gorbachev. I believe that the US neo-cons either want the status quo in Pakistan to prevail till the US presidential elections or else they want to see Pakistan balkanizing before that in revenge.  If the latter is true the airstrikes like the recent one will multiply and the presidency will try to replace the Army Chief and hence dividing the army. In such a scenario a Yeltsin will apparently save the day while starting the dismemberment of Pakistan. Pakistan Army then needs to ensure its integrity and desist from becoming Musharraf’s victim. And while it is possible to break Pakistan for it is a small fry like Severus Snape in Harry Potter world, it is the US which is the ultimate loser.