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Robotic Politics
is Menace to Global Peace and Security
"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do
good is my religion" (Thomas Paine)
“Most Americans go along with unaccountable murder,
torture, and detention without evidence, which proclaims their gullibility to
the entire world. There has never in history been a population as unaware as Americans.
The world is amazed that an insouciant people became, if only for a short time,
a superpower. The world needs intelligence and leadership in order to avoid
catastrophe, but America
can provide neither intelligence nor leadership. America is a lost land where
nuclear weapons are in the hands of those who are concerned only with their own
power. Washington
is the enemy of the entire world and encompasses the largest concentration of
evil on the planet. Where is the good to
rise up against the evil?” (Paul Craig Roberts, “Truth
is Offensive”, paulcraigroberts.org).
Mahboob A
Khawaja
Do American
masses find themselves overshadowed by dark Age of unreason while presidential
election campaigns are in full swing? Candidates lacking moral and intellectual
visions and capacity using power over wisdom to imagine success. Money makes
the difference in elections not the imagination of peaceful America. With
Bernie Saunders being an exception, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have no
rational assumptions to articulate a New America - they claim all along. Arnold
Toynbee (A Study of History) noted that “soft countries breed soft men.” Paradoxically, since the end of the Cold War,
America
and West European have not produced any leaders to claim that democratic nations
breed leaders of peace and global harmony. The masses cherish thinking to
foresee a sustainable future of global peace and understanding. Lessons of
history cannot be ignored, no matter how intelligent and smart leaders pretend
to be in an election campaign agenda. All contemporary leaders are prisoners of
their own ideas and ideals. More so, directed by well paid advisors in words
and actions to imagine political success. Record shows that George W. Bush,
Obama and Tony Blair and David Cameroon, all had strategic advisors hired to sketch-out
public-oriented critical issues, seek attention and sympathy from the masses, and
create delusions out of the reality and lead successful election campaigns.
Robots are programmed to perform desired functions. Are the 21st
century politicians any different? Across North America
and the globe, humanity is anxious if the current American presidential
candidates will make any difference for the future. Leadership envisages new visions; new ideals
to explore new horizons for the good of the masses and promises to change the
future for better.
Global
Humanity in Search of Peace and Order
In its
search for change and progressive future-making, the global mankind is
oppressed and victimized by the systematic intransigence and arrogance of the
few affluent class of people managing the global institutions, militarization
and governance - the perverted insanity lacking basic understanding of the
Human Nature and of the working of the splendid Universe in which we enjoy
coherent co-existence. The mankind
continues to be run down by the cancerous ego and cruelty of the few Western
warlords. Killing unjustifiably one innocent human being is like killing of the
whole of the humanity. The global warlords represent cruel mindset incapable to
see the human side of the living conscience. Madness of the perpetuated war on
terrorism and its triggered insanity knows no bound across the global spectrum.
Animals do not commit massacre of their kind and species, nor set-up rape camps
for the war victims, the Western led wars against the humanity have and
continue to do so at an unparallel
global scale without being challenged by any global organizations or
leaders. Torture and massacres of innocent civilians are convenient fun games
to be defined as “collateral damage” and a statistic. Perhaps, they view mankind
just in digits and numbers, not as the living entities with social, moral,
spiritual and intellectual values and progressive agendas for change and
development. Every beginning has its end. It is just that most powerful nations
have failed to learn from the living history - a slap to EH Carr’s precious
thoughts of human history.
America is in the midst of crises of its own not capable to extend global peace
and security even being the only leftover superpower so to speak. George W.
Bush followed by President Obama to engulf America with the ripple effects of
the bogus War on Terrorism. Richard
Falk (Milbank Professor of International Law
Emeritus at Princeton
University where he was a
member of the faculty for forty years. Professor Falk argues that “the United States
has plunged "the world into a struggle between two extremist visions of
how to achieve world peace and global justice."
Warmongering
as an institution spells out history’s malicious mistakes, often irretrievable.
America
needs a visionary transformational leadership capable to restore democracy,
people-oriented system of governance, political accountability and to avert
fascism on a global scale. Should such a leader not be equipped with superb
insight, originality and verve, to make the masses think about a new and an
emerging global civil society away from the existing reactionary onslaught of
blame-games and failed institutions, and invigorated by human rights principles
and religious tolerance. Does America
want another Clinton
or Trump to slip toward a geopolitical morass? One wonders if American
presidential elections are just a prototype of robotic political model full of
incurable resentment and repeated historical ironies to dominate and control
the world. Could
the next American president envision an apocalyptic ending to humanity's stint
on planet Earth?
Tia Ghose,
Senior Writer of Life Science (“Doomsday:
9 Real Ways the Earth Could End” 5/30/2013), outlines critical issues that could
terminate the world: “global warming, pandemic threats, Asteroid, nuclear war,
robot ascension and snowbell” are the some of problems discussed. Strange as is
that contemporary politicians do not discuss such vital issues of primary
concern to the masses in North America and
across the globe. Any apocalyptic disasters will affect all and everywhere on
Earth. The question must be faced: do we
the humanity should destroy ourselves by our own inventions and deceptions?
“Big
Thinking” Can Annihilate the Human Existence
Persistent culture of blame-game
is in full gear. If nothing else works, Obama blames Putin for the Ukraine crises
and continuing Syrian civilian bloodbath. Ironically, if peaceful solutions are
sought, leaders must engage in dialogue and not to block the channels of official
communication. You will find that G-8 meetings have has shrunk to G-7, with Russia not
invited anymore. NATO is increasingly organizing military exercises in Eastern Europe touching Russian nerves. Undeniably,
Russian involvements in Ukraine
and occupation of Crimea can be tackled if
leaders were to talk and meet one another. There are curious and conflicting mindsets
across the divided Western Europe. America is the
guide in all polices and practices and the EU follows it. Logic seeks truth and
that is if President Putin is treated properly at international conferences, he
could show tolerance and some balancing acts in Ukraine and East-West relations. To
ignore Russia
and insult President Putin is not the morally encouraging approach to move
forward in all global crises. President Obama and EU leaders need to rethink
about the future. Isolating Russia
will increase probabilities of continuing conflicts, military threats and
insecurity across the globe. America
and Russia
both have the largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons on earth. None appear to
reduce the weapon manufacturing capabilities or to destroy the weapons on their
own. The “big thinking” scenario could cause the apocalyptic ending of the
world without notice. There are always unseen dangers of accidental warfare.
The previous wars of the 20th century have not ended yet. Their
ripple effects continue to haunt the humanity and make it fearful of the coming
of a third world war. Robert Pape, Professor, University
of Chicago's, and author of Dying
to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, 2005, points out the
alarmingly failing record of the US Empire in war engagements: "America
is in unprecedented decline. The self-inflicted wounds of the Iraq war, growing government debt, increasingly
negative current-account balances and other internal economic weaknesses have
cost the United States
real power in today's world of rapidly spreading knowledge and technology. If
present trends continue, we will look back on the Bush years as the death knell
of American hegemony."
To
Change Animosity and Hatred by Reason and Ingenuity
Future must be
anew, not the repetition of the past. While the planned wars and military
aggressions have failed to achieve any strategic goals except causing large
scale deaths and environmental destruction of the human habitats, political
thinkers and intellectuals and experts in conflict resolution should envision
new strategies to avert the futuristic wars.
Time and
encompassing opportunities warrant New Thinking, New Leaders and New Visions
for change and the future-making. But change and creativity and new visions
will not emerge out of the obsolete, redundant and failed authoritarianism of
the few insane leaders. None have the understanding of neither peace nor
respect for human life and co-existence in a splendid Universe. To challenge
the deafening silence of the global leaders, the humanity must find ways and
means to look beyond the obvious and troublesome horizons dominated by the few
warlords and continued to be plagued with massacres, barbarity against human
culture and civilizations, destruction of the habitats and natural environment
as if there were no rational being and people of reason populating the
God-given Universe. Men of power are simply repeating the history of malicious
ironies. The informed and mature global community looks towards those Thinkers,
educated and honest proactive leaders enriched with coherent unity of moral,
spiritual, intellectual and physical visions and abilities to be instrumental
to rescue it from the planned encroachment of the few Western warlords. The
March 2011 Japan’s natural
disasters - tsunami, earthquakes and nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima have further heightened the
tormenting uneasiness, pain and anguish of the mankind across the globe. Environmental experts, technological
inventors and nuclear scientists seem to invent things but failed to manage the
operational outcomes and accidents, essentially signaling major flaws between
what is thinkable for the good of human change, progress and advancements and
the divide between what could purge the human existence because of the
ignorance of their own thinking and action, arrogance, warmongering and
inconsistency and continued confrontations with the Nature of Things and
challenges to the Laws of God.
Can we think to
be human in all of our moral, political and intellectual endeavors? Can we come-up with a remedial imagination to
cure the incurable ignorance, sectarian resentment and nationalistic bloody
rampage, the malice and perfidy out of the sadistic human plans and priorities? Can we critically look at ourselves - why
have we become so stagnated in moral, spiritual and intellectual values to be
on a cliff to destroy the cause of freedom, equality and justice to all? Can we see the mirror with a collective
conscience - why have we been pushed to resort to animalistic characteristics
and behaviors that those who appear to be well educated and morally and
intellectually intact but act like agents of the draconian age as if there were
no people of reason and accountability populating the Planet Earth?
“If the human nature
is in part wicked and in part foolish, how can human beings be prevented from
suffering from the result of their wickedness and folly?” C.E.M.
Joad (Guide to Modern Wickedness), the 20th century proactive thinker
offers a rational context to the prevalent affairs of the 21st
century political quagmire:
“Men simply do not see that war is foolish and useless
and wicked. They think on occasion that it is necessary and wise and
honourable, for war is not the work of bad men knowing themselves to be wrong,
but of good men passionately convinced that they are right.”
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