“Pomp and plunder is the hours blunder”, everywhere around the world. “ism” s are sporadic and dominate the world we live in today. The Jehad ism rightly coined as religious fundamentalism fostered in the middle eastern countries, the imperialism even under recession can be termed as USA ism, the hegemonic attitude of china’s communism which is more of anti-Indu ism are the today’s top liners and eye catchers. These isms have a goal and whether the goal is right or wrong, their march towards the goal is worthy of appreciation.
There are also other isms like Mayan’s 2012 apocalyticism, europe’s “second fiddle” ism, zoism as expressed in the post “Exodus” and I cut short the lengthy list with India’s NA absurdism leading to rapid growth which is illusionism (focus).
The various desperate war prevention channels opted by the Man from Tikrit: talks through Iraqi intelligence, Egyptian national security advisor, an aide to Syrian president, 2000 FBI agents, providing oil concessions, handing over al-qaeda terrorists, co-operation for arab-israeli peace and into exile with 1 billion USD. The answer to all these attempts to avert war, save many lives, preserve peace, above everything else, save one’s own life was, “We will see them in Baghdad”.
Was the man really caught in Tikrit? Was he really hanged? Is he dead for sure?
The answer is obvious because it is like gravity. We can never see the effect; we know that objects fall down due to gravity because we have been taught so. The answer to what happened to the man from Tikrit is on par with the gravity explanation. This is now history and as always is written by the victorious.
I wouldn’t expect a dictator of such authority to get caught in the cage like a garden rabbit. Personally, I feel that this is like the ego tussle between Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale in Prestige with the only difference being that truth is stranger than magic. The arrogance and the caesarian attitude of the Americans have gone out of bounds. Uncle Sam has been wielding the big stick for a long time now. The 2003 Iraq liberation invasion was a lot different from the earlier gulf war by father W in it this was unprovoked and did not even have the support of UN.
The outcomes are forgotten: a man was hanged totally absolved from the criminal reason cited for the war- there were no WMDs.
The surprise visit by Obama and the additional $83 billion for war in Iraq and Afghanistan shows no change in attitude. The plan to extend the stay of the troops in the region till 2011 just deepens the budget. Is there any reconstruction going on after all?
I am afraid. Are all these efforts liberating the 24 million people in that region or enraging them increasing their hatred towards the western world?
What is the next generation in that region experiencing? We can only hope that they are looking at the water in the cup though very little and not at the big emptiness.
Unless and until there is an amicable relation between the two nations in place of the present Hunter-Hunted hostile feeling, the war in Iraq is nowhere near to ending.
What is the world keenly looking at now: The nuclear power plant functioning in Iran, the satellite launch cover up of North Korea or the summit of Americas for Hugo Chavez? With the recession still echoing heavily, wielding the big stick and playing snooker is probably going to be a tough task for Obama. The world cannot stand another meaningless war causing inflation of commodities all around. Additional head less bodies can only result in more chaos and more volatile world. We can only hope that the big think tanks don’t create more Iraqs, Afghanistans or Pakistans out of Teheran and Pyongyong , rather try reforming the regions experiencing the pain.
The nicely written article by Fareed Zakaria: http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/newsweek/020507.html
Another article on ending war on Iraq:
http://www.tomhayden.com/strategy.htm
American soldiers teasing Iraqi children:
Humvee in Baghdad:
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Good work. Let the world always enjoy peace and happiness
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