Understanding Each Other, Diversity and Dissent: LETTER FROM COMMANDANT WEST POINT

21 July, 2008

LETTER FROM COMMANDANT WEST POINT

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ISBN NUMBERS OF BOOKS WRITTEN BY AGHA H AMIN

Author:--

1-Development of Taliban Factions in Afghanistan and Pakistan-ISBN No-978-0-7734-3725-8

2-History of Pakistan Army from 1757 to 1971-ISBN No-978-0-557-50100-7

3-1971 India Pakistan War-ISBN No- 978-0-557-50111-3

4-Taliban War in Afghanistan-ISBN No-978-0-557-50119-9

5-Military Leadership and Decision Making-ISBN N0-978-0-557-50123-6

6-Sepoy Rebellion of 1857-59 Reinterpreted-ISBN No-978-0-557-51380-2

7-Pakistan Army through eyes of Pakistani Generals-ISBN No- 978-0-557-50171-7

8-Indo Pak Wars-A Strategic and Operational Analysis-ISBN No-978-0-557-51984-2

Thomas Paine on Religion

I disbelieve them all...My own mind is my own church" -Thomas Paine

" Each of those churches accuses the other of unbelief;

and, for my own part, I disbelieve them all...

...My own mind is my own church."

(Thomas Paine, one of the Founding Fathers of America)

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life
I believe... the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews say that their Word of God was given by God to Moses face to face; the Christians say, that their Word of God came by divine inspiration; and the Turks say, that their Word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from heaven.

Each of those churches accuses the other of unbelief; and, for my own part, I disbelieve them all.

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(Thomas Paine).

NOT RETURNING A BOOK FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT PAID

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A PAKISTANI MAJOR GENERAL WHO WAS GENERAL ZIAS CONTEMPORARY ON GENERAL ZIA

A.H AMIN'S QUESTION:--

What were your impressions about Zia as you saw him in the Army tenure?

MAJOR GENERAL TAJAMMULS ANSWER

I had not intimately known him before he became the Chief of the Army Staff but from his conduct during the Divisional Commanders Conferences, he appeared to me an incompetent and low grade officer.

In one of the Division Commanders promotion conferences, I even saw him sleeping with his mouth open.

He surpassed all limits of sycophancy when meeting the Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. While in uniform, he used to bow when shaking hands with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

I remember my old Brigade Commander, Brigadier Hayat, with whom I served as his Brigade Major, once told me that he had written in Major Zia ul Haq’s ACR when he served under his command, “Not fit to go beyond the rank of a Major”. It is an irony of fate that a person of such a calibre had ruled Pakistan for a long period of eleven years till he was finally killed in an air crash.

LINK FOR THE ABOVE QUOTE:--

INTERVIEW OF MAJOR GENERAL TAJAMMUL HUSSAIN MALIK:--

http://pakistan-army-interviews.blogspot.com/2008/11/maj-gen-retd-tajammal-hussain-malik.html

NOT RETURNING A BOOK FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT PAID

I WROTE PAKISTAN ARMY TILL 1965 IN 1999.BELOW IS THE SHORT ONE PAGE CONCLUSION CHAPTER:--

http://indopakmilitaryhistory.blogspot.com/2008/11/conclusion-on-pakistan-army-performance.html

THIS IS A SUMMING UP OF PAKISTAN ARMYS MILITARY PERFORMANCE BASED ON 24 YEARS OF MY RESEARCH CONCLUSION OF PAKISTAN ARMY TILL 1965

THE PAKISTAN ARMY TILL 1965 ACCEPTED BY US ARMY COMMAND AND STAFF COLLEGE LIBRARY FORT LEAVENWORTH:---

http://low-intensity-conflict-review.blogspot.com/2008/09/pakistan-army-till-1965-accepted-by-us_15.html

THE COMMANDANT OF THE COMMAND AND STAFF COLEGE QUETTA,PAKISTAN DID NOT HAVE THE INTELLECTUAL HONESTY TO ACCEPT THIS BOOK FOR THE LIBRARY ( CORRESPONDENCE AND MY ORIGINAL LETTER IN THE BLOG DIVERSITY AND DISSENT).TO READ THE LETTER CLICK THE LINK BELOW:--

http://low-intensity-conflict-review.blogspot.com/2008/09/letter-to-commandant-staff-college.html

THE COMMANDANT ALSO DID NOT HAVE THE COURTSEY TO RETURN THE BOOK WHICH WAS SENT FOR THE LIBRARY AS A DONATION AND FOR WHICH THE STAFF COLLEGE HAD NOT PAID. SEE LETTER FROM STAFF COLLEGE REFUSING TO RETURN THE BOOK FOR WHICH THEY HAD NOT PAID BY CLICKING THE LINK BELOW:--

http://low-intensity-conflict-review.blogspot.com/2008/09/pakistan-army-till-1965-not-accepted-by.html

THE BOOK IS HELD IN US ARMY COMMAND AND STAFF COLLEGE LIBRARY,LIBRARY OF US ARMY WAR COLLEGE,FRUNZE MILITARY ACADEMY LIBRARY RUSSIA,LIBRARY OF CONGRESS USA AND AIR WAR COLLEGE LIBRARY AIR WAR COLLEGE KARACHI.

JUST COMPARE THIS PETTY INTELLECTUAL PARSIMONY AND BIGOTEDNESS WITH THE GENEROUS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF A BOOK OF MINE " THE ESSENTIAL CLAUSEWITZ " THAT I DONATED TO US ARMY MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT.REPLY OF COMMANDANT WEST POINT BRIGADIER GENERAL MC FARREN IS AS BELOW(CLICK ON LINK):--

http://low-intensity-conflict-review.blogspot.com/2008/07/letter-from-commandant-west-point.html

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8bEdZGbBsg0/SXgzKNKqKQI/AAAAAAAADJc/VRFiTPzvO9A/S1600-R/US+ARMY+CENTER+OF+MILITARY+HISTORY.jpg

THE PAKISTAN ARMY TILL 1965 ACCEPTED BY US ARMY WAR COLLEGE CARLISLE LIBRARY:--

http://low-intensity-conflict-review.blogspot.com/2008/09/pakistan-army-till-1965-accepted-by-us.html

A PASHTUN KHALQI HEROIN,KHALQ ZINDABAD

A PASHTUN LADY IS FORMIDABLE IN ANY ROLE WHETHER IT WAS MALALAI AT MAIWAND OR NAGHMA OR M/S KAKAR MURDERED BY INSURGENTS IN KANDAHAR.THIS DIE HARD KHALQI TIGRESS WAS INDOMITABLE AND FEARLESS .A BORN KHALQI AND TILL DEATH A KHALQI SHE WAS A GREAT WOMAN.MAY ALLAH BLESS HER SOUL. HIZB E KHALQ DEMOCRATIC AFGHANISTAN ZINDABAD

TWO NATO TIGRESSES (ATTACK HELICOPTER PILOTS) FROM AUSTRALIA AND NETHERLANDS WHO HAVE PLAYED HELL WITH URUZGAN AND KANDAHAR

-------------------------------------------------------- THE ANTI US FORCES HAVE NO SAM CAPABILITY.HA HA HA THEY HAD ONCE WHEN THEY FOUGHTY FOR DIRTY US AND SAUDI DOLLARS AGAINST AFGHANISTANS OWN LEFTIST GOVERNMENT,HA HA HA LATER THEY SOLD BACK THE USA THE STINGERS AGAIN FOR US DOLLARS,AND NOW THESE TIGRESSES ARE PLAYING HELL WITH THEM,HISTORY IS REALLY VERY STRANGE,NOW THE AMERICANS ALSO MUST BE THINKING THAT THE OLD USSR WAS A BETTER OPTION THAN THESE DIRTY BEARDED CLOWNS HA HA HA AT LEAST THEY WERE ENLIGHTENED CULTURED PEOPLE