13 July 2016By 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.
(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 the latest: Global
Peace and Conflict Management: Man and Humanity in Search of New Thinking.
Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, May 2012)
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