As America unleashes an unprecedented number of drones to blast FATA to pieces, it expects the residents of North and South Waziristan, Kohat and D. I. Khan to offer heartfelt thanks and oodles of praise for the gift of four state-of-the-art ambulances According to US Consul General Elizabeth Rood, these four ambulances will "provide life-saving support to more than 90,000 people in the region" - a transparently ridiculous statement by any stretch of the imagination, particularly when juxtaposed against over 1,140 deaths and countless civilian injuries caused by drone strikes since August 2008. Twenty-five such attacks have taken place in a mere 29 days during September. Giving with one hand and grabbing back with the other is particularly American style of 'help' which, unfortunately, these 'invaders' are allowed to exercise at will here in Pakistan - often under the USAID umbrella. Nothing is for free as far as the American government is concerned and USAID is, after all, that governments 'charity' wing which habitually targets 'enemy' individuals at grassroots level, as in FATA where American infiltration is in full swing. Take the Kerry-Lugar 'aid' for example: The US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations recently passed a bipartisan legislation seeking to promote the private sector in Pakistan utilising aid finance from the controversial Kerry-Lugar-Berman package. This new move, to be known as the Pakistan-American Enterprise Fund is modelled on similar post-Cold War funds established by 'Big Brother' for the development of Eastern Europe some 20 years ago, and is to be headed by an Obama appointed board of directors of four private American citizens and three Pakistani private citizens with experience of operating in international markets and, over the proposed 20 years of its duration, is expected to harvest a 137 percent profit for USAID. True to say that all businesses, including USAID apparently, expect to make a profit, yet there is also supposed to be somewhat of a difference between 'business' and 'aid', but obviously, as 'charity' does after all begins at home, one presumes that America is in the business of reaping a profit from 'aid', so it can cater for its own homeless and poor at someone else's, in this case our, expense. With this in mind, one has to wonder why USAID is providing $16 million to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation to support agriculture in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as, sure as 'eggs are eggs' there must be an underlying, distinctly profitable reason. Then there is the under construction Gomal Zam Dam in the war-torn and drone ravaged South Waziristan, which WAPDA is having problems completing due to financial constraints and guess who has just leapt into bridge the gap - USAID, of course, who are also racing to involve themselves in as many diverse, largely grassroots projects all over Pakistan as they possibly can. Naturally, it is presumed, that a certain percentage of the personnel necessary to get these projects off the ground will be American passport holders of one type or another and will dispense, along with their own brand of cultural and political wisdom, the seeds of an American-orientated revolution with whatever corrupting version of 'aid' they visibly perpetrate. America, as the 'freedom loving great and the good' propaganda, is bound to be an intrinsic part of such colonising packages with long-term profit, in the form of 'friendly' subversion, perversion and persuasion laying the base rules for future domination of the masses. America, 'the big and the bad', has already fed Pakistan into the voracious arms of the IMF, the World Bank etc and, as CIA operatives have a field day both within our borders and without (the CIA is responsible for drone strikes in FATA plus, in conjunction with unnamed 'others', for intelligence gathering irrespective of wherever and in which country this is to be found) and now, just last week in fact, NATO helicopters made three incursions from Afghanistan into the Pakistani territory, killing three Pakistani troops in the process, prompting our beleaguered government to finally take a stand and 'temporarily' shutdown one of NATO's two supply arteries running from Karachi to Afghanistan, which move has not pleased bullying America one little bit and it is only a matter of time until, as usual, we accept conditional apologies and cave into their threatening demands. To top it all, America claims that CIA drone attacks have been stepped up to prevent German and British nationals, claimed to be currently based in FATA, from organising massive terrorist strikes in the West and that if these highly speculative strikes do actually happen, American forces will take unilateral action inside our borders. This all-out threat of invasion, if this particular pretence does not serve, then another one will be invented sooner or later, is intended to force Pakistan to cringe at its would be colonial master's feet, willingly handing over our nuclear capabilities and anything else they can squeeze out of this overly milked nation in the process and then - once 'Big Brother' has had his fill of murder and mayhem and benefits no longer accrue, think of multinational cannibals and the arms industry for starters, they will auction us off to whichever scavengers feel that a profit can be made from our bones and as they pull out, they will remind us, most sincerely, that they have provided us, in the form of aid, with four state-of-the-art ambulances to pick up the pieces The writer is a Murree-based freelance columnist.