Pakistan, China, and 'Dirty Work'

When the Pakistani defense minister tells the news media that his nation has been doing the “dirty work” of the US, UK, and the West for the past thirty years, he’s not wrong, but he’s also not saying anything we didn’t already know. Still, his remark worked like a charm in Western anti-neocon circles who make a living lambasting US expansionism, dirty wars, use of proxies and “moderate rebels” to oust regimes unfriendly to Western globalist interests. It was a Pavlovian response. I get it. But I wasn’t really fooled this time around, mostly, for the non-newsworthiness of his statement (pure limited hangout) and for the fact that it was meant to deflect from the real culprits behind all the instability we’ve seen in Kashmir over the past twenty-five years.