Loathing Global
Politics Dehumanizing the Mankind
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
The
Earth and Space are wired with secrecy, new and unthinkable weapons of mass
destruction and global warming is a clicking time bomb for the future. The most
hated and feared leaders do not have the intellectual and political capacity to
solve nay problems which they have created. …..The humanity looks to men of
intellect, scholars of integrity for solutions, certainly not to the warmongers
destroying life and habitats throughout the globe. Rationality asserts that the
future belongs to the global citizenry not to the few sadistic warlords, and
that an informed and politically mature and active global citizenry must have
the opportunity to exercise its rights, choice and freedom to develop the
futuristic global institutions and governance by integrating the moral and
spiritual values of man, humanity and the living Universe as the rational
forces of global conscience for a sustainable future. Being one Humanity on One
Planet and One World, people of the world to which the Universe belongs, have
never allowed any abstract institutions or governments or egomaniac leaders to
act on their behalf. The message and its spirit are clear that the mankind as
ONE united rational force by will and choice must act to safeguard the future.
To
Comprehend the Current Global Affairs
In 2008,
Presidential candidate Obama inspired hope (“yes, we can”) for political change
but it turned out to be a fallacy of perception and expectation. The world is
more dangerous place in 2016 than when a colored President Obama making history
moved into the White House. In scholarly terms, politics is a game of
pretension and obsession to egomaniac ideals to enhance one’s own image and
interest for power. You can’t blame Obama squarely for all the wrong idealistic
perceptions he generated to win the two presidential elections. Modern
democracy is fast becoming a willful domain of deception and exploitation for
the rich and privileged ones. Was the 2011 Protest Movement not a revulsion
against the same ideals? President Obama
is leaving the presidency and the political world in much worst conditions than
when he assumed the office. War is the
only goal and policy aim that he pursued, not much different that of beleaguered
George W. Bush did to dehumanize the American culture and victimize the
humanity with new brand of terrorism. Bush did all he could to traumatize the
humanity with the cruelty of terrorism. This unending darkness has encompassed
the whole world. America
appears to be at great loss and bewilderment. History speaks loud and clear. History will
judge leaders and nations by their actions, not by their claims. None of these
characters had any vision for universal harmony and sustainable political
change or to foster peace and co-existence across many divided national lines
of greed and hegemonic controls. American politicians do what political
financiers and lobbyists dictate them to do - to loath the mankind with the
fear of insecurity and continuous war agenda.
The Arab Middle
East is virtually destroyed; its masses bombed, terrorized and displaced as
unwanted refugees across many European national frontiers. The real problem of Palestine is replaced by
the current wars to capsize the whole of the Arab world. Who is responsible for all the intriguing
wars and backdoor conspiracies to kill one another? Islam united the believers
in adversity but the authoritarian Arab leaders divided the masses and got
defeated and disgraced. People and leaders live in conflicting time zones. Have
all the Arab people lost their sense of thinking and rationality? How would the future generations view them in
a critical analysis? Were they so inept and stupid not to think of their own
future and sustainability? The aggressors have carved up subjective titles and
labels of sectarian killings, daily bloodbath and terrorism. As if it was not
part of their planned scheme of things to dismantle the Arab freedom and human
dignity. Was this perpetuated cruelty and darkness not the explicit outcome of
the American and British war and occupation of Iraq
and Afghanistan? Who will rebuild the century’s old cultures,
human habitats and reputable ancient values that have been systematically
destroyed by the war mongers?
In “How
the United States and Britain Lost the Bogus War in Iraq and Afghanistan”
(Global Research), this author clarified the pertinent facts of the bogus war: Michel Meacher, British
Environment Minister under PM Blair (“This War on Terrorism is
Bogus”) - provides reliable insight into the real reasons for
the 'War on Terrorism'. He claims that the "war on terror" is flatly
superficial: “the 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure
its global domination ... the so-called 'war on terrorism' is being used
largely as bogus cover for achieving wider US strategic geopolitical objectives
... in fact, 9/11 offered an extremely convenient pretext to put the PNAC plan
into action. The evidence again is quite clear that plans for military action
against Afghanistan and Iraq
were in hand well before 9/11.”
David Swanson (“ISIS,
Weapons Makers, Thugs Benefit from This Crime.” Dissident Voice), points
out how the US
weapon manufacturers have increased the cost of weapon sales by 19% and are
ultimately the beneficiary of the war against ISIL. The coalition of war led by the US
against ISIL is nothing but a paradox of self-contradictory coercive
arrangement. The U.S. France, Germany,
UK, Saudi Arabia, and Arab
Gulf countries aim is to overthrow
President Bashar al-Assad, which happens to be the goal of ISIL and other groups
fighting in Syria.
President Putin is shielding the besieged Bashar Al-Assad from final collapse
and making gains in Syria
and Arabian strategic thinking. Many Arab leaders are impressed by Putin’s
decisive action to protect his client state. They could open new markets for
Russian weapons and influence in the Arab world. President Obama remained
in-between without any prompt action to oust Bashar Al-Assad. The current
sectarian wars do not appeal to any holiest mission. The US and Russia are
bombing to support their war economy and find a convenient pretext to kill the
Arab people. American foreign policy aims at and acts like double-edge Razor
King to install authoritarian regimes in the frontline Arab states and
manipulate them for illegitimate purposes and exploitation of the natural
resources. When these former neo-colonial tribal agents turned kings and
princess become a liability, the US
implies Plan “B” to get them killed by their own people like Ghadafi in Libya, Abdulla Saleh ousted in Yemen and Saddam Hussein hanged in Iraq. The Arab
coalition leaders have no sense of time and history how the US will destroy
the Arab culture and civilization by using false pretext of the war.
Truth is One, Not Many But Political Leaders will
Deny it
We are witnessing an historic event and epic
of empire-building. Leaders claiming to be democratically elected, think and
behave like absolute dictators. President Obama is engaged in time-killing
exercises at the end of his presidency. He was not an intellectual and
proactive person leading to peaceful future-making. Mankind needs morally and
intellectually responsible leadership to pursue a sustainable future. All
absolute rulers and leaders tried to run down the mankind as if it was just a
number - a digit - and conscious-less entity of technological imagination. But
all of them have caused immense losses and liabilities to their own nations and
empires. American political history was enriched with intellectual foresights
and democratic values to safeguard the rest of the mankind. But its
contemporary leaders and major institutions seem to defy the logic of peaceful co-existing
with the global community.
The continuous wars have incapacitated the Arab states and
rulers as some are complacent in providing logistical support to the US-British
aggressions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Western masses are against the
wars but the US-Russian strategic plans increasingly pursuing more seen-unseen
wars against the Arabs-Muslims, not just to occupy their natural resources but
to go beyond Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Libya and occupy the lands and
people. This is a call for a decadent Islamic culture to be destroyed
within as the political developments are shaping up beginning with Palestine, Iraq,
Syria onward to other Arabian Peninsula - collapse of the Muslim people to be
taken over by the 21st century Crusaders. One wonders, if the oil enriched Arab
elite occupying dusty palaces could come out to have the freedom to think on
their own of a Navigational Change to avert the self-geared human catastrophes?
Chris
Hedges (writes a regular column for Truthdig.com and was
a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, and author of many books
including his most recent book: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of
Spectacle) contributes a realist observation (“The
Ghoulish Face of Empire.” Truthdig.com), to make the US policy
makers understand the untold and challenging facts of global politics:
The black-clad fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,
sweeping a collapsing army and terrified Iraqis before them as they advance
toward Baghdad, reflect back to us the ghoulish face of American empire.
They are the specters of the hundreds of thousands of people we murdered in our
deluded quest to remake the Middle East…… The
language of violence engenders violence. The language of hate engenders hate.
“I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn,” W.H. Auden
wrote. “Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.” It is as old as the
Bible.
There is no fight left in us. The war is over. We destroyed Iraq
as a unified country. It will never be put back together. ….We are not, as we
thought when we entered Iraq….
We are something else. Fools and murderers. Blinded by hubris. Faded relics of
the Cold War. And now, in the final act of the play, we are crawling away. Our
empire is dying……. The disintegration of Iraq is irreversible. At best, the
Kurds, the Shiites and the Sunnis will carve out antagonistic enclaves. At
worst, there will be a protracted civil war. This is what we have bequeathed to
Iraq.
The spread of our military through the region has inflamed jihadists across the
Arab world. The resulting conflicts will continue until we end our occupation
of the Middle East. The callous slaughter we
deliver is no different from the callous slaughter we receive. Our
jihadists—George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard
Perle, Thomas Friedman and Tommy Franks—who assured us that swift and
overwhelming force in Iraq would transform the Middle East into an American
outpost of progress, are no less demented than the jihadists approaching
Baghdad. These two groups of killers mirror each other. This is what we have
spawned. And this is what we deserve.
The Earth
and Space are wired with secrecy, new and unthinkable weapons of mass
destruction, and global warming is a clicking time bomb for the future. The
most hated and feared leaders do not have the intellectual and political
capacity to solve nay problems which they have engineered for their own
interest and greed of power. The humanity looks to proactive scholars,
visionary and intelligent people of new ideas and leaders of change to rebuild
a systematic and institutionalized sustainable future for the humanity and to articulate
a culture of freedom and human dignity to co-exist without the fear of wars and
in complete harmony with the Nature of things - more so, to imagine man (human
being), humanity and the Universe to co-exist without animosity of the few
vengeful mindsets. Man being the most intelligent creation on planet Earth and being
the nucleus of Humanity must think of his originality of Creation and coherent
role-play within the Laws of God governing Man’s life and the Universe. The
Man, the Humanity and the Universe must be seen as interrelated entities to
envisage global peace and harmony on One Plant. Life, the Universe and the laws
of governance of the planet are not the outcomes of man-made legislations, politicians
and staged actors. Is there anew culture of rethinking and emotions to bring
the mankind back to its originality of rational unity and peaceful co-existence
to save the humanity and civilizations? Lessons of history are ignored - most
feared and most hated leaders, who drove the mankind to the insanity of the Two
World Wars and current war agenda in the Middle East,
likewise are actively engaged to undermine the future prospects of harmony
between people of diversity and varied cultures. With failed international
institutions, incompetent and corrupt global leadership affiliated to the
Washington-based Military-Industrial complex continues to enforce
militarization of the globe- an insane perversion against the logic of peace
and co-existence amongst the mankind. The humanity looks to men of intellect,
scholars of integrity for solutions, certainly not to the warmongers destroying
life and habitats throughout the globe. Rationality asserts that the future
belongs to the global citizenry not to the few sadistic warlords, and that an
informed and politically mature and active global citizenry must have the
opportunity to exercise its rights, choice and freedom to develop the
futuristic global institutions and governance by integrating the moral and
spiritual values of man, humanity and the living Universe as the rational
forces of global conscience for a sustainable future. Being one Humanity on One
Planet and One World, People of the world to which the Universe belongs, have
never allowed any abstract institutions or governments or egomaniac leaders to
act on their behalf? The message and its spirit are clear that the mankind as
ONE rational force must act to safeguard the future.
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