The Pakistani Crisis Has Become Acute and Global by Jack D.
Douglas by Jack D. Douglas Pakistan is one of the vast number of
new states which Americans, remembering almost no history, think
of as old — even ancient — states. Like so many of the other
vast host of Post-Colonial Victims of Western Imperialism,
including Afghanistan and Iraq, Pakistan as we know it today is
a very new state born in the violent throes of the
disintegration of the British and other Western Empires after
World War II and got caught up in the birthing pangs of the
inheritor of the British Imperial Legacy, the American Global
Empire. Pakistan, like Iraq and Afghanistan and most of these
Imperial Victims, is not a single NATION of people sharing a
very common culture. Like Iraq, Afghanistan, and so many states
born in the imperial struggles, it is a STATE made up of many
different nations. It was built into a larger form of its
current status when the vast religious-political civil war in
India during the disintegration of British rul