Umar Waqar WikiLeaks are a hot topic for discussion these days, with Pakistan playing the role of the ultimate whipping boy and ISI as the target of all and sundry from 10 Downing Street to the Rashtrapati Bhavan. There is anger on losing the war on terror, as the US administration sees the last American solider leave the Bagram Air Base by the summer of 2011, a la April 75 Saigon replay, when the last GI left Saigon for good. The chorus started with WikiLeaks conniving at the ultimate propaganda machine headed by publishing houses of the Guardian, New York Times and Der Spiegel. Even the Indian Foreign Office joined the chorus by stating: We have seen media reports about classified information, supposedly from the US government sources, put out in public domain, on support to terrorism by ISI - Pakistans military intelligence agency. Sponsorship of terrorism, as an instrument of policy, is wholly condemnable and must cease forthwith. The utilisation of territory under Pakistans control to provide sanctuaries for recruiting and sustaining terrorist groups, and to direct terrorist activity against neighbours, must stop if our region is to attain its full potential for peaceful development. The new mouthpiece of the free world, David Cameron, after getting the necessary instructions from the White House, vented his anger during his recent visit to India, where he alleged that the Pakistani intelligence and military were sponsoring terror networks in Afghanistan and India. The WikiLeaks episode reminds us of the day when the 'last chopper left Saigon in 1973, followed by the publishing of The Pentagon Papers. According to Wikipedia: The papers revealed that the US had deliberately expanded its war with bombing of Cambodia and Laos and coastal raids on North Vietnam, none of which had been reported by the media in the US. The revelations widened the credibility gap between the US government and the people, allegedly hurting Nixons war effort. But the most damaging revelations in the papers revealed that four administrations, from Truman to Johnson, had misled the public regarding their intentions. Something eerily similar is taking place today. The US administration is trying different methods to propagate their way out of Afghanistan, hoping to confuse the entire world about their withdrawal. Today, Pakistan is being used as the scapegoat, although the US-led NATO forces cannot easily exit Afghanistan without its help. It is probably too early to open up the Pandoras box regarding the WikiLeaks, but this does show how much frustrated the US and NATO forces are. They want to leave Afghanistan quickly but to hide their embarrassing defeat they will make Pakistan as the new Cambodia and Laos. Putting pressure on their most precious ally will not help; in fact, it will worsen the situation. Pakistan is the only country that can help US and NATO forces to easily leave Afghanistan. As they have already worsened relations with Iran by imposing purposeless sanctions and are doing even more mundane things by pressurising their biggest ally. I think they want Pakistan to clean their dirty work by engaging Taliban inside Afghanistan. Sorry Mr Obama, but thats not part of the deal. Pakistan is not Cambodia; it is a nuclear power and it would be awfully hard to annihilate it. Thus, the so-called saviours of the world have committed shameless war crimes. In Iraq, every year about 30 percent of Falugean offsprings are born deformed and everyone knows what kind of munitions and bombs were used to destroy Fallujah. WikiLeaks published in The Guardian on July 25th describes these war crimes as: The coalition put out a press release which referred to the fire fight and the air support and then failed entirely to record that they had just killed or wounded 11 police officers in Jalabad. Yet, later that week, on Sunday, June 17, as General Sherzai hosted a shura council at which he attempted to reassure tribal leaders about the safety of coalition operations, Task Force 373 launched another mission, hundreds of miles south in Paktika province. The target was a Libyan fighter, Abu Laith al-Libi. The unit was armed with a new weapon, known as Himars. The plan was to launch five rockets at targets in the village of Nangar Khel where TF 373 believed Libi was hiding. The result was that they failed to find Libi but killed six Taliban fighters and then, when they approached the rubble of a madrassah, they found an 'initial assessment of 7 x NC KIA which translates as seven non-combatants killed in action. All of them were children. One of them was still alive in the rubble: 'The Med TM immediately cleared debris from the mouth and performed CPR. After 20 minutes, the child died. Can these ruthless operations develop goodwill in the heart of a common Afghan whose brother, father or son got killed by the high-tech and highly accurate weapons of the coalition forces? Certainly not, Mr Obama and Mr Cameron. As Mullah Umar remarked: You have all the watches but we have all the time. And especially when your time is up; go back Mr Obama with bag and baggage and save the lives of the common GIs fighting in this purposeless long war. And why blame Pakistan with 30,000 lives lost and many more crippled for life on the altar of Capitol Hill? Pakistan can ill-afford any further destruction of its socio-economic fabric. If I were the US President, I would welcome my troops back home in this very year, rather than propagating to the whole world about reasons of failure in the AfPak and making Pakistan the whipping boy. I dont think this is the right time to get frustrated and blame others for your dirty work. This can also harm NATO in another way, as they could lose their foremost ally Turkey for good. Since frustration will lead to new conflicts and the possible formation of Iran-Turkey-AfPak nexus, it is better to leave just as the Soviets did and say: I have learnt it the hard way that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires, as I have myself experienced it. The writer is a freelance columnist.