| Issue 26 Vol II, October 31, 2006 | Archive |
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Dregs of Imperialism POST Second World War imperialism, dominated by America and its direct or indirect lackeys, has wrecked havoc on the world, particularly the resource rich. Guided by free market, industry and business for profiteering and an insatiate craving for power, its ideology became more acceptable after the collapse of Soviet Union and its brand of Communism. Since American reigning of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1946 that killed thousands of innocent people, America has never hidden its evil designs and has been ravaging the world, suffering inglorious defeat at the hands of a poor third world peasant country Vietnam but what it is tasting in Iraq and Afghanistan could be worst. Policies of president Bush and prime minister Tony Blair and their NATO allies have create a more dangerous world in the shape of jihad outfits. Since no country feels secure, the arms race including nuclear has picked up speed. War industry in America, Europe, Russia, China and elsewhere is having what business people call ‘great time’. All at the cost of other basic human needs and causing environment degradation. To hell with the world as long as our coffers get filled is the slogan. Yet the mighty America with just 300 million people and consuming 46 per cent of world resources is stuck up in a quagmire. Both Afghanistan, the country that was bombed to stone age and Iraq, the modern developed secular country now being eaten away by schism may prove the graveyard of imperialism. The blood letting has already claimed according to respected medical journal Lancet over 6,50,000 innocent lives, many of them children. Iraq is devastated with nearly 20 per cent people moving out as refugees to their neighbouring countries. economic and social life of Iraqis who suffered earlier at the hands of a dictator lies shambles. Afghanistan suffers the worst as NATO forces tasting defeat are wrecking and plundering the country like horse of marauders. America the country which after heinous bombing of 9/11 could have provided leadership to the world in its fight against extremism has created worst type of reactionary extremism. With an edge in science and technology, it could be a leader without much blood letting. Now its negative side gets bigger projection worldwide several opinion polls show. American and NATO efforts to strike deals with the Taliban and their henchmen after failing to secure some semblance of control in these two hapless countries have met derivative rejection. Bush and Blair have run out of their vocabulary of hate and violence and the press conferences only expose them further. America is not losing its soldiers, but billions of dollars of tax payer’s money every day. November 7 elections to the American Congress are haunting the ruling Republicans. Bush and Blair are now keen to rush out, but even their face saving formula are not working. Their generals are only puncturing their rhetoric. If NATO commander speaks about lack of clear policy and full support, the British armed forces chief goes public with the proposal to withdrew from Iraq . An American diplomat calls his own country’s policy as arrogant. How would they sustain their political lives, they have little clue. And all this at the hands of those poor third world countries with small arms and their bare bodies as suicide bombers. Can the political class in the West make real difference with sagacity and honesty? If it can not , the people have a democratic choice available to them. |
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