Conversations With History - Tariq Ali

"Pakistan"
Tariq Ali, Editor, New Left Review

Host Harry Kreisler welcomes writer and journalist Tariq Ali for a discussion of Pakistan and it relations with the United States. He places the present crisis in its historical context exploring the origins of the Pakistani state, the failure to forge a national identity, the inability and unwillingness of Pakistani leaders to address the country's poverty and inequality, and the role of the military in the country's spiral toward violence and disunity. In this context, Tariq Ali highlights the significance of the U.S. relationship throughout Pakistan's history and he analyzes current US policy and it implications for stability in the region.

Recorded September 26, 2008

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[BAFREMAUXSOORMALLY]

Both Harry and Tariq are biased and with a clear political and ideological agenda. They are pretending to look for the political disease within Pakistan when the cause or causes lie with the British and the West who were still ruling and controlling (DOMINATING AND CRIPPLING) the country from outside.

Tariq Ali is an atheist and a God and Muslim hater and is not the right person to speak as an expert about Pakistan.

BAFS

[emotionalinvalid]

Harry and Tariq, two outstanding men in their different ways

[satyratron]

the intro sounds like it came from a nes game.

[MrVoulezvous]

The intro is awful because it's academics doing it...obviously, Ali goes beyond that, but some are just that and that's it. And that's unfortunate. One should never be just anything and that's it.

[hbhj20]

whats up with the 70s intro???on the bekeley chanel-come on media students!

[Bastiat90]

Where did I say monetary gain is the prime mover of human activity? Profit motives are not exclusively money related. You're very bad at dodging the issue.

[TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

@Bastiat90 People are not motivated purely out of monetary gain. What you said is an inane banal talking point.

[Bastiat90]

That's an absurd argument. Would you refrain from killing someone because nobody told you not to do it?

[TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

@Bastiat90 They also didn't do it because the goverment did not tell them to.

[Bastiat90]

What do his political views have to do with his inventiveness?