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mass media as a weapon to misinform and deceive the public of a possible
threat to their life and security. The corporate run news media shield the
leadership animosity to perpetuate wars for economic and political goals.”
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colonial rule as late as August 15th 1971 when UK colony Bahrain gained
independence. However, the colonial rulers left their puppets in charge
before leaving and arrange regime change when patriotic leaders are
installed such as in the case of the elected presidents of Iran, Iraq,
Indonesia, etc. who were overthrown by CIA coups installing their dictators
like the Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein, Sukarno
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Subject: Images- the Militant West
This new article offers objective-oriented analysis of the US-Brits led
continued war mongering in Iraq and Afghanistan and the latest NATO
leadership summit in Lisbon on November 18-20.
(Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in global security, peace and conflict
resolution with keen interests in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and
civilizations, and author of several publications including: "Muslims and
the West: Quest for Change and Conflict Resolution", University Press of
America; How America Lost the War in Iraq and Afghanistan and Mujahideen
Won; To America and Canada with Reason, VDM Publishers, 2009; “President
Obama – War is War, Not Peace”, 2009; and “Is President Obama Remaking
America?” “The Arab Time Capsule- Once You Were the Leaders of Islamic
Civilization”, “The Arab People Look for Peace and New Leadership.” Comments
are welcome at: kmahb...@yahoo.com)
US-Brits lead continued war mongering on Iraq and Afghanistan: “Perpetual
War and Perpetual Peace”
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.
Immanuel Kant, the 18th century German philosopher had envisioned “Perpetual
Peace”, the doctrine that gave war riddled Europeans much needed hope and
optimism for peace making and conflict management. C.E.M. Joad (Guide to
Modern Wickedness), enlists divergent facets of evil thinking and minds that
governed the Europeans to kill each other during and preceding the two World
Wars. After prolonged history of barbarity, Europeans seem to be thinking
rationally and soul searching for fighting against themselves and are at
relative peace within the corridors of the EU.
Whereas, some of the American political strategists are making headways for
“Perpetual War and Perpetual Peace” to manifest the ambitious imperialism in
another major global conflict to wipe out the whole of the humanity.
The Western nations under NATO waging the bogus “War on Terrorism” use the
mass media as a weapon to misinform and deceive the public of a possible
threat to their life and security. The corporate run news media shield the
leadership animosity to perpetuate wars for economic and political goals.
NATO re-invented a new role to be an active belligerent institution in
Afghanistan after its failed history to engage the former USSR on any real
front of the major ideological conflicts.
Bush and now President Obama claim they were invited to Afghanistan. Lies
know no bound in contemporary political wickedness. There exists a wide gulf
between the aspirations of the masses in the Western nations and thinking of
the type of leaders they have in the ruling elite. People want peace and do
not support the war mongering of the few against other human beings in the
Muslim world.
Wars and aggressions kill people and do not produce peace and harmony but
resentment and degeneration. History illustrates when a nation or the
leaders challenge the limits of the Laws of God and approach near the end of
their lifespan, insanity takes-over common sense and they tend to ignore
warnings and reject all voices of reason. Most of the conscientiously
responsible Western scholars and political intellectuals are getting
increasingly concerned, not to identify their interests with the minority
ruling elite of the United States and Britain and the prospects of the ‘war
crimes’ against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Blair and their role in large
scale massacres of the civilians and using uranium powered missile for
destruction of human habitats in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Professor
John Esposito (Georgetown University, and author of Unholy War and What
Everyone Needs to Know about Islam), makes a candid observation: “in many
parts of the Muslim world the war against global terrorism has come to be
viewed as a war against Islam and Muslims. The image of America has become
that of a neo-imperial power that has sought to redraw the map of the Middle
East and the Muslim world, influenced by an unholy alliance of
neoconservatives and the militant Christian right.” The wars have gone
terribly wrong and the end is fast approaching, sheer madness in thinking
and strategic decision making to create new Mi Lia of Vietnam particularly
in Iraq and Afghanistan. Near their defeat, the Nazis resorted to mass
killings across Europe, and so did the Soviet Union prior to defeat and
surrender to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Daily massacres of the innocent
civilians throughout Iraq and Afghanistan and the stage drama could rest on
any given conclusive note to the pages of history. Katrina was the first
installment in a series of warnings to come for those leaders who could
listen and learn from the history. Not so, to the neo-conservative dominated
US administration that failed to achieve its objectives in conquering Iraq
and Afghanistan, just to ensure smooth oil supplies and global military and
economic supremacy.
Once again, humanity appears to have been pushed back to the shameful annals
of the European Dark Ages. In search of new animosity, few utopian scholars
wanted to distract the humanity after the end of the Cold War to keep the
liberal democracy working and ensure electoral voters active participation.
In early 90’s, Samuel Huntington reinvented and re-ignited the old cliché -
“a clash of civilizations” between the West and Islam - a new age of
confrontation between the predominantly technologically advanced culture of
the West and the subdued interdependent societal religious culture of the
Muslim world. The powerful mass media and the official policy makers
throughout the West, fuel the insane imagery that the Arabs and Muslims are
“fundamentalists” and “terrorists.” After the collapse of the ideological
wars between the Communism and the Capitalism, the world political arena was
free and conveniently available for a new ideology of “a clash of
civilizations” to seal the closing chapters of the Cold War. Huntington was
courageous and frank to admit “we need ennobling animosity” to survive and
shield the decaying human culture of the Western civilization. Most Western
leaders politically aligned with the ruling elite, would refute that “a
clash of civilizations” is the underpinning framework of the official policy
and the “War on Terrorism”, denying the premise of unilateral wars against
Iraq, Afghanistan and onward to Pakistan. The mass media would elude ‘smart
bomb’ theory hitting the terrorist targets but in reality, more than 3
million Iraqi civilians have reportedly been killed by the US led forces in
Iraq since the invasion in March 2003. Deceptive claim as it is that there
was a war between the US and Iraq. It was a media entertainment soap opera
and above all, a unilateral act of aggression against a fellow UN member
state, forbidden under the UN Charter. According to Kofi Annan, the UN
General Secretary, it is an “illegal war” to occupy Iraq. French and German
leaders resented and resisted politically and morally, but could not dare to
challenge the US and Britain through any means of military force to stop the
futuristic bloodbath in a country that had no quarrel nor posed any threat
to the US or Britain. When facts are ridiculed, ignorant advisors construct
dogmas to boast the defeated psyche of the leaders. That is where the former
President Bush and British PM Tony Blair found their respective standing.
History points out countless wicked people and nations that had transgressed
the limits of the Laws of the God, and never acknowledged if there was
anything wrong with their THINKING and BEHAVIOR until they experienced the
consequential end and their destruction. The Al-Qura’an reveals that Pharaoh
claimed, “handful of people have annoyed us, whereas, we are the most
powerful people on guard to defend our values.” Moses and the followers
crossed safely the Red Sea but God punished Pharaoh and his armies as they
vanished in the Red Sea. Does it explain well as a role model, how the
egoistic tyrants and transgressors meet their end in this world?
Analyzing the contemporary affairs, again, the world is being dragged into
the Dark Ages - might is right. President Bush after the 9/11 attacks made
it abundantly clear, “either you are with us or you are against us.” The
draconian formula had no in-between, no choice to take a rational stance, as
normally liberal democratic values would facilitate it. The image of a
single most World Power is fixed and unquestionable, be it fair or foul. The
net outcome shows the manufactured imagery of Muslims as the alleged
terrorists and the sole inheritor of the 21st century political ideology.
With massive corporate sponsorships and the Western mass media collaborative
alliances, Islamic civilization is the only targeted client of this emerging
business. What about the Arabs and Muslims, have they done anything to
challenge the absurdity of the so called “war on terrorism” and to safeguard
their political interests and human survivability? Even the most educated
ones are indifferent and fearful of the prevalent authoritarian rule in
their lands and the dictates of the Western masters to survive. With full
awareness of the problem, they live in division, discard and helplessness.
There are no Muslim institutions to provide honest analyses or reflect on
the possible remedies. Throughout the Arab-Muslim world, there is not a
single established university teaching global peace, security and conflict
management - the institutions dealing with the present and envisioning the
future that the Western nations are built upon for change and development.
Leaderless Muslim masses appear desperate to look for a visionary and
intelligent leader to offer some consolence and intellectual security. Not
so, in the Arabs or Muslim countries, leaders live in palaces, not with
people. All the leaders are pre-screened by the CIA and the World Bank
before taking a shape and form to move into a palace. Accordingly, Saddam
Hussein, Shah of Iran, General Musharaf, Zardari and Karzai fit into that
facilitated image and governance. The author of Muslim under Siege,
clarifies that leaders in Muslim countries are pre-screened and chosen by
the West. Everywhere neo-colonial rulers operate the infrastructures and
maintain the natural resources across the Muslim world but there are no
leaders to organize and unite the Muslim as Ummah-one people, one nation
intellectually and politically powerful enough to defend it against the
odds.
The neo-colonial rulers have helped the Colonial Masters to make the Muslim
masses helpless victim of their warmongering and inhuman atrocities being
carried out at Gutanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib Prison, and Massacre at Fullajah,
Haditah, Bughdad, Kandhar, South-North Waziristan and elsewhere. The ruling
elite would not allow their national press to discuss such sensitive topics.
There is no Sultan Salahuddin Ayoubi that the European would fear for
centuries to come, there are no Sultan Babyar and Sheikh Izzuddin to give
blowing defeats to Halaqu Khan - the Mongol warlord, and no Allama Iqbal or
Ali Shariati to awake the sleeping folks and guide the believers to success.
Strangely enough, when Muslims are being butchered, some of the intelligent
North American self-appointed Muslim organizational leaders urge fellow
Muslims to become “moderate Muslims” as if being a true Muslim was a crime
or sin in liberal democracy. Their naive perception or hasty judgment cannot
be ridiculed; they have to be dame sure to act like economically feasible
species, all the time caring for their own bread and butter, not for the
interest of people and Islam. The phenomenon supposedly outgrows a new creed
of American Muslim, easily available at the marketplace. Many strive to pose
and evolve happy looking faces and memorable IMAGES, busy in breaking the
Ramadhan Fast at the White House Lawn or 10 Downing Street, London, sharing
funny jokes about the success of the American-led war in Iraq and
Afghanistan, hanged Saddam Hussein or the dictates of the New World Order.
What they are not allowed to talk in public is about the US-British led
forces killings and massacres of the civilians in those countries because
they are “moderate Muslims” and follow strict time constraints during the
Ramadhan breakfast and prayers, and sensitivities of the US New Empire
political agenda.
Built on lies and political deception, the on-going wars were suppose to
create a new culture of FEAR amongst the American and European common
masses, enabling the ruling elite to sustain their grip over the powerhouses
for long time to come as did the Nazis, a war of thousand years to dominate
the world. Instead, it has backed fire; the leaders are fearful day and
night from the masses and unable to cope with the challenging public
concerns on the war causalities or to answer rational questions about the
outcome of these self-generated conflicts. Ironically, the American and
British leaders are fighting wars they cannot win, nor afford to lose in the
public eyes. Majority of the well informed masses do not seem to support the
wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ugly as the outcome of the wars
become, the furious will be the media propaganda embodying new strategies to
cover up the entrenched leaders. Arundhati Roy said it well: President Bush
and Osama Bin Laden are not the acceptable choices to the real world. Both
are self-centered and irrelevant. Increasing disclosures of American and
British military massacres of the Iraqi civilians, the home-based
authorities will forge illegal arrests of young Muslims in North America and
Western Europe, alleging connection with non-existing or dead Al-Qaeda
group. More and more planned allegations will make news media headlines
about the alleged “Terrorist Plan”, purchase of fertilizer commodity and
“bomb-making” and what not. The intelligent ones in Washington and London
draw the script to enhance economic and political market data. The strategic
games are well known, create more problems to dilute and overshadow the
massacres in Iraq and Afghanistan and distract people’s attention from the
known acts of crime against the humanity. War is business and political
deception is known and tolerable trait of the new global image-making trade.
If there were educated and intelligent leaders in the Muslim world, one
could reason the unreason. But the oil exporting Arab leaders operate from a
position of political weakness, not strength to play any useful role in
international politics. They have built palaces over moving sand, not
institutions to educate and protect the interest of the Muslim Ummah.
Imagine the dichotomy of the living history, the Christian Crusaders came,
ransacked and killed 170, 000 Muslims just in one day to occupy Jerusalem.
Despite assurances of peace and religious sanctity, the Crusaders moved
horses in blood-flown streets to capture Jerusalem. When Sultan Salahuddin
Ayoubi reconquered Jerusalem, the visionary leader allowed and escorted all
the Christian Crusaders to safety with human dignity, honor and material
wealth. History shall describe a corporate world run by greed and
animalistic savagery, preoccupied to influence and control the destinies of
the living human beings under the guise of economic feasibility and market
interests.
To enforce power of reason and ask for accountability of the few Western
Warlords, the humanity has reason to be concerned with, well organized and
united to oppose the unilateral barbarity of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan
and Pakistan. This underlines an URGENT NEED for global morality and
political accountability in world affairs. The solution cannot come from
those who are parts of the problem but only from a civilized people under
morally and politically responsible leadership who will know what peace
means, and have no colonial history and are readily acceptable as genuinely
civilized representatives of the humanity. Immanuel Kant (“Perpetual
Peace”), must have sensed the threat to international peace and the nature
of destructive wars - “standing armies shall in time be totally
abolished.”
Zbigniew Brzezinski (The Grand Chessboard, 1997), former Security Advisor to
President Carter, makes an historical reference: “American primacy and its
geostrategic imperatives describe American priorities as the economic
subjugation of the Soviet Union and the control of Central Asia and the
Middle East.” With the continued wars of aggressions in Iraq, Afghanistan
and Pakistan, the international institutions overwhelmingly controlled and
managed by the Western Powers have become irrelevant to the 21st century
needs of the global humanity. The UN and its Security Council are dormant
bodies striving for their own functional survival and have abandoned their
Chartered–based obligations to protect the humanity from the scourge of war
and aggression. To undermine the UN functions, NATO has taken over the role
of leading European-American operated institutions to protect the Western
strategic and political interest outside its sphere of influence or legal
mandate. Contravening its own charter and global undertakings, there is no
effective UN organization except as a debating club, no International Red
Cross as such, no UN Security Council, no competent Arab League, no other
accountable global body to question or investigate why the occupying
American and British armed forces are engaged in New Holocaust of the
civilian population in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan? The Western Crusade
is solely aimed at killings of the Muslims and occupying their natural
resources. Likewise, there are no Arab leaders or Muslim armies to offer
sense of security to the besieged Arab population victims of the daily
massacres in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Kofi Annan, the former UN
Secretary General lacked courage to cross over the limits and question the
US led war on Iraq and to “annoy” President Bush or PM Blair, it could have
undermined his own candidacy as continued Secretary General of the UN failed
body. He simply called the US-British aggression as an “illegal war”.
Across the Western world, masses vigorously oppose the on-going deadly wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan. NATO, inadvertently, has assumed the role of
fighting in Afghanistan. In its Nov 18, gathering at Lisbon, the leaders
were supposed to workout plan for the end of the war in Afghanistan and
clear timetable for troops withdrawals. Instead, the gathering was focused
on mending its ties with Russia and extending the armed conflict
indefinitely in Afghanistan. People are killed, leaders are not. None of
these leaders have ever fought a war on the real front. Simply put, there
are politicians lacking reason and honesty of purpose, and are engaged in
time killing discussions. In liberal democracies, leaders were supposed to
be accountable to the will of the masses. Not so in the US or Britain, the
places with strongest public opposition against the Wars on Terrorism. The
leaders and the masses appear to be living in different time zones, not
being able to cross-over the widening gaps to interact with one another as
democratic rights and obligations would dictate within the working of the
political system. Listening was meant to be political learning and
reasoning, not any more even President Obama has continued according to Bob
Woodward’s “Obama War.” The continued wars serve the interest of the
corporate establishments and the Western economies. The image of
deliberately dismantled system of global governance is meant to appease the
economically influential and politically smart Western elite. Hitler and
Mussolini were Europeans, not Arabs or Muslims, and they did not rule alone
on their own, as there were millions to cheer them up and support their
leadership egos with galvanized news media alignment of the time, and their
personal ideologies as law and order of the day. At the initial stages of
the 21st century, the replica is exactly the same from the pages of history,
only the names and titles have been changed and adjusted – a small minority
of ‘sick puppies’ are determined to occupy the oil and gas resources and to
wipe out the Arabs and Islamic civilization under the guise of terrorism.
Changing the names of Hitler and Mussolini, now historian and prosecutors
responsible for conducting the war crimes will mention Bush, Cheney,
Rumsfeld and Blair and many more. Britain knows what it lost, cannot regain
in colonial history, but the American empire has yet to learn the hard
lessons. It is more fearful that soon it could be replaced by China in
combination of another economically viable power or group of nations from
the emerging rival economies of Asia. Amazingly, under the stress of extreme
fear and fatigue, America has lost sense of moral direction, values and the
true spirit of its own history. Throughout the Two World Wars, the European
madness knew its geography and national boundaries - Europeans enjoyed
killing fellow Europeans. But under the American Empire, its dimensions are
widely insane and global, exclusively aimed at to kill Arabs-Muslims and
destroy the Islamic civilization. Professor John Esposito has summed up the
History Lessons in a meaningful context:
“An important lesson of history is that rulers and nations do rise and fall.
Unforeseen circumstances can bring up unanticipated change. Few expected the
breakup of the Soviet Union and the liberation of Eastern Europe to occur
when they did ……now is the time for those in all walks of life (political,
economic, military, media and academic) who wish to see a new order not to
be silenced but to speak out, organize, vote and be willing when necessary
to make sacrifices in promoting a new global order.”
Much publicized NATO leaders at the Lisbon meeting of Nov 18-20, were
supposed to be finalizing an end to the Western engagement in war torn
Afghanistan. Hamad Karzai was reported to be in direct contact with the
native Talaban to discuss peace and provide a time table for the withdrawal
of the US and Western troops from Afghanistan. Dashing out all the people’s
hope, they appeared keener to enlarge a dialogue with Russia than talk of
rational choices to leave Afghanistan with honor or without an apparent
defeat by the Talaban forces. The NATO gathering missed another opportunity
for its face saving strategy. There is something terribly wrong with the
strategic thinking and decision making process of the Western leaders. With
all the technologically advanced firepower, they could not fight against
handful of Talaban defending their country. None of the Western leaders have
factual knowledge or experience for being on any war fronts. They manage to
stage a puppet show to deceive and mislead their own people and the mankind
for fighting a worthy cause when there was none. War is not synonymous for
peace. Righteousness and wickedness cannot be combined in one mind and
behavior. Foremost, it was an American led aggression against the people of
Afghanistan as was the case in Iraq, and then the longest war continued to
create new markets for the sale of obsolete US weapons to the oil exporting
Arab nations. These wars will distract people to find solutions for the real
problems of occupation and subjugation in Palestine. It is their mindset
that requires diagnostic treatment as the ordinary folks across the US and
Europe have no interest in killing other people and would prefer to co-exist
in peace and harmony with the Muslim people. Robert Briffault (The Making of
Humanity), an earlier 20th century intellectual at Cambridge University
offered a rational observation on the mindset of political leaders:
“The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply
sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience,
good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason
to truth and progress, was not at all their intentions, in their purpose, in
their personal character, but in their opinions.”
(Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in global security, peace and conflict
resolution with keen interests in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and
civilizations, and author of several publications including: "Muslims and
the West: Quest for Change and Conflict Resolution", University Press of
America; How America Lost the War in Iraq and Afghanistan and Mujahideen
Won; To America and Canada with Reason, VDM Publishers, 2009; “President
Obama – War is War, Not Peace”, 2009; and “Is President Obama Remaking
America?” “The Arab Time Capsule- Once You Were the Leaders of Islamic
Civilization”, “The Arab People Look for Peace and New Leadership.” Comments
are welcome at: kmahb...@yahoo.com)
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