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America’s Unending War on Terrorism will Destroy
Humanity and Planet Earth
Mahboob A Khawaja
America’s Failed Strategy Escalating Sectarian Conflicts
in the Arab World
Is America
at war with itself? For more than a
decade, American-led war on terrorism continues from Afghanistan
to Iraq, Syria and soon
to other oil producing states of the Arab world. Its aims are global hegemonic
control of the Arabian natural resources and people. None of this strategy
carries any weight on a rational criterion of critical thinking. Andrew Gavin
Marshall (“Empire
under Obama: Part 3-America’s “Secret Wars” in Over 100 Countries Around the
World” The Hampton Institute), is a well known international researcher and co-editor of The Global Economic Crisis: The Great
Depression of the XXI Century, points out that:
….. Obama’s global ‘war of terror’ has expanded to roughly 100
countries around the world, winding down the large-scale military invasions and
occupations such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq, and increasing the
“small-scale” warfare operations of Special Forces, beyond the rule of law,
outside Congressional and public oversight, conducting “snatch and grab” operations,
training domestic repressive military forces in nations largely run by
dictatorships to undertake their own operations on behalf of the ‘Global
Godfather.’
Ostensibly, the Arab Middle East
is controlled and managed by the US intelligence network; otherwise,
Arab leaders would have hard time to stay afloat. The authoritarian Arab
leaders live in palaces, not with people to understand the outcomes of their political
folly and ignorance. Ironically, the US-Russian air strikes and killings of the
civilians in Syria and Iraq will
instigate reactionary opposition and increased insurgency to topple the puppet
regimes. America enjoys a
record of failure in strategic thinking and practices if you view the war
theater in Afghanistan and Iraq and now the forged battleground is Syria.
American war strategy
is aimed at large scale deaths and destructions of the entire Arab region
enabling American corporations to attain direct control over the oil reserves
and supplies. Another vital aim of the strategy is to camouflage the freedom of
Palestine and entangle Palestinians into
violence and street battles as the issue of Palestine freedom is distracted by other
sectarian rifts. America
is not engaged in wars of humanitarian principles and values of any kind. Those
opposing the Russian and American interventions in Syria
and Iraq know well how much Russia and America are feared and hated by the
common Arabian folks. President Obama does not have a strategy to “defeat and
destroy ISIL” in the Arab Middle East. The US strategists do not have the
political imagination or moral and intellectual power to determine the
political future of the Arab region. America operates in complete
disconnect and does not have the knowledge, weapons or strategy to fight the
morally and culturally embedded Islamic revolutionaries in the Arab world.
Western Wars are against the Global Humanity
Professor Michel
Chossudovsky (The Globalization of War - America’s “Long War” against
Humanity. Global Research: 2014), is a reputable international scholar and
attempts to explain the pertinent facts of contemporary global warfare:
While Washington
wages a Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), those who forcefully oppose America’s war
of aggression are branded as terrorists. War becomes peace a worthwhile “humanitarian
undertaking.” Peaceful dissent becomes heresy. With unfolding events in Ukraine
and the Middle East, humanity is at crossroads….A culture of killing and
violence has become imbedded in human consciousness….War is broadly accepted as
part of a societal process. The Homeland needs to be “defended” and protected.
…A “humanitarian war” is upheld by the so called international community. It is
not condemned as a criminal act. Its main architects are rewarded for their
contribution to world peace.
Is that’s how
President Obama gained a 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing to promote
global peace and security? All of America’s technological advanced
weaponry on earth and secretive intelligence resources placed out in space are
Weapons of Mass Destruction meant to be used against the people on Earth and
nowhere else. The continuing wars are adversely affecting the human lifelines,
habitats and causing massive disruption in climate change. The US and British
are responsible for much of Iraq’s
planned destruction, increased sectarian violence and dismantling of the
political governance. Dreadful are becoming as abnormal frequency of violent
killings, internal insecurity, drug-abuses and political mismanagement, several
thousands Americans killed in global bogus wars and likewise wounded and
crippled for life, 18-25 war veterans daily committing suicide. The common
American folks feel a terrible sense of helplessness and are fearful of the
consequences of their leader’s triviality and viciousness against their own
masses and global mankind.
America Needs Navigational
Change or Warmongering will Destroy all
History speaks
its own language that all those nations claiming to be most powerful on the
planet were destroyed by their own designs and wicked strategies. America is no
exception but it does have the breathing space to take heed and make a
Navigational Change. We live in One World and on One Planet - Earth and America is one
of the most scientifically and technologically advanced nation to encompass the
globe. The planet Earth is not a dead orbiting object but a living entity
providing continuous nourishment to human life and existence and to all other
living beings. Its governing laws are defined by its Creator. America as it
appears is not heeding to warnings from God. When people and nations challenge
the sanctity and limits of the Laws of God and violate all known norms and principles
of human behavior, they could well become an object of unthinkable natural
calamities and disasters. The Holy Bible and Al-Qura’an are full of such
revelations and warnings as reminders to those people who are wise enough to
listen and learn and care for accountability and sustainable future.
The Universe and
all it encompasses are the products of God-given command; and do not operate in
concert with man-made legislatures, constitutions, foreign policies, judgments,
hopes and desires. It is beyond doubts that when aggressor nations challenged
the sanctity of the Laws of God governing the Earth and the living Universe,
and invaded small and poor nations in farfetched lands, they ultimately met
their own end by natural causes such as earthquakes, flooding, tornados, exploding
lavas, sound blasts, lightning and lot more. Are there any Thinking people to
take heed from the prevalent facts of human history?
Are there any Arab Leaders of Intellectual Integrity and Proactive Imagination
to Think of Political Change and Future-making?
Hypocritical despotism overwhelms the US military intervention strategy across the Middle East. None of the combatants appear to think
intelligently about the future. Could wrong people, with wrong thinking and
doing the wrong things manage the global peace and conflict resolution? Do the
Americans and European really want peaceful transition out of the neo-colonial
authoritarianism evolved and supported for the militarization of the Arab
Middle East? George Capaccio (“The
Time of the End is the Time of No Room” Common Dreams: 12/25/2015),
is an American writer and activist and shares
first-hand observations of the current humanitarian crises, right where the
pain and human anguish live in the refugee camps:
What is particularly
distressing in this recent outbreak of blind prejudice among a growing number
of my fellow Americans is their apparent ignorance of our country’s role in
generating the humanitarian crises affecting Syria,
Iraq and other Islamic
countries in North Africa and the Middle East.
Were it not for our almighty benevolence and exceptional commitment to bringing
democracy to the oppressed and downtrodden, an untold number of innocent human
beings would still be with us, here on Earth, living their lives, practicing
their faith, loving and being loved. But our savage, power-driven, myopic
leaders insist on carrying out their interventions, always according to God’s
plan or some equally demented design formulated in think tanks and board rooms
and the halls of Congress with the noble goals of regime change and absolute
control of energy resources firmly in mind. As it was in Iraq so it is now
in Syria and other targets of the greatest empire that has ever disgraced the
Earth and all we share in common, like the right to life, the right to liberty,
the right to freedom from foreign hubris and its many forms—from outright
aggression to the “responsibility to protect.”
Wars suck out positive human
thinking and creative energies to articulate a sustainable future. Do the
American or the Arab leaders know what would be the end-game? Aftermath of the Russian-American
bombing campaign, what kind of political landscape and geography be in-waiting
for the Arab Middle East? Time is
critical for self-reflection and finding out ways and means to critical
thinking and be able to grasp the comprehensive outlook to sort out political
means and feasible strategies for peacemaking. The Arab coalition leaders breathe
oxygen in a complete disconnect to the interests of the Arab masses. Now the
Western hypocrisy has willingly embraced Russia in partnership to destroy
the Arab world. To deceive the humanity, they announced a Peace Plan for Syria approved
by the UN Security Council. How and who will implement this so called Peace
Plan? The Plan keeps Bashar al Assad in power- the crux of the problem, and
foresees public elections after the ceasefire. Strange as is that 70-80 % of the
Syrian population is displaced, the country’s economic, social and political
infrastructures are in complete ruin, millions of civilians killed and pushed
to the European oceans and countries as refugees and asylum seekers. Who will
elect whom? Could the large Syrian graveyards be places of ballot boxes for the
dead souls? Do the Americans and Russians
think that global community is just digits and numbers without human conscience
and rational thinking?
How to Articulate Peace and Security When
Superpowers are Accused of War Crimes?
The Amnesty International calls to attention that Russia and America
are bombing the civilian habitats in Syria
and Iraq
and accuses them of committing crimes against humanity. There is no exact data
available about the civilian war causalities across Syria
and Iraq.
Thousands and thousands are killed, charcoaled by the bombing every day. This
is the inhumanity of the human beings exercising absolute political power. What
is the cure to the raging indifference and embolden cruelty to the interests of
the people of Syria, Iraq, United
States and Western Europe
and for that matter to the whole of the mankind? Millions have been
forcibly displaced and made refugees to seek shelter across the oceans and in
hostile European continent. The UNO failed to provide a place of safety and
protection to the civilian population of Syria
and Iraq.
Where should these victims of global crises go and seek humanitarian asylum and
safety? Arab leaders are incapable to extend any moral and intellectual
security to the civilian victims of the wars. The 21st
century new-age complex political, economic, social and strategic challenges
and the encompassing opportunities warrant new thinking, new leaders and new visions
for change, conflict management and participatory peaceful future-making. But
change and conflict resolution and new visions will not emerge out of the
obsolete, redundant and failed authoritarianism of the few insane and egoistic
leaders. To challenge the deafening silence of the US and Russian leaders and West
Europeans, the informed and mature global community looks towards to those
thinkers, educated and honest proactive leaders enriched with coherent unity of
moral, spiritual, and intellectual visions and abilities to be instrumental to
lead and to rescue the mankind from the planned enslavement and victimization
of global warriors.
“The greatest threat to our world and its peace” stated Hermann Hesse, the author and political
activist (1877-1962) … “comes from those who want war, who prepare for it,
and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of
foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.” Long time ago, Eric Bogle synthesized the
poem- The Green Fields of
France and many have sung it to remind the mankind of a just cause in
waiting at the global table of the contemporary war racketeers and sadistic
warmongers:
Did you really believe, when they
told you the cause,
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well, the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame,
The killing and dying it was all done in vain
Oh Willy McBride it all happened again -
And again, and again, and again, and again.”
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