US Midterm Elections

Midterm elections have been held in the US for all seats of the House of Representatives, 32 seats of the Senate and offices of the state governors on 2 November 2010. Dozens of candidates who tested their luck following the tall shadow of the election campaign run by President Barack Obama faced humiliation of defeat at the hands of Republicans. In the US House of Representatives having 435 members, the Democrats lost in 240 constituencies. In the elections to the upper house i.e. the US Senate, the Republicans improved their position.

Advantage Republicans
Various tops guns of the Democrats lost in the recent elections. The candidates ruthlessly used wealth for their victory. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who got much fame in the field of acting and later became state governor, lost the office of the governor. Whereas a look as to who contested election from where and on ticket of which party ads to one's knowledge and wisdom, it also widens one's political and social awareness.

Democrat Senator from Florida Michael Bennet celebrated second consecutive victory after defeating Republican Cain Huke. In other tough contests, Republic leader John Reid was defeated by Democrat Joe McCain for a Senate seat from Western Virginia. Marko Rubio gave tough time to Obama's colleague Charlie Crist in Florida and also gifted him defeat. In Kentucky, the Republicans emerged victorious while the Democrats were the runners up as Rand Paul shattered hopes of Jack Convoy of Obama lobby.

Setback for Obama
Obama had to suffer the shock of historic Republic victory on his ancestral seat of Illinois. Obama had got elected as senator from the same seat. The Republicans won on two most important Senate seats of Northern Dakota and Arkansas. John Thune defeated Terry Porter while in Arkansas John Bosman delighted Bush Junior by emerging victorious.

In Missouri, former head of Armed Services Committee Scouts was badly defeated on the ticket of Democrats as Wiki Mart of Republican knocked him out. In the House of Representatives, the strength of Republican has increased. If the Obama ministers failed to show interest in the ending military inventions in other countries during the rest of the presidential tenure for the sake of poverty, unemployment and colonialist desires in light of the public feelings and aspirations, their hopes of winning the next presidential will fade forever.

Human Massacre and Barbarism
Muslims are to be reminded here that the Publican party is a frightening group of conservatives and jingoists who achieve such successes in human massacre and barbarism under the patronization of former President Bush following the 9/11 that the human spirit sheds tears of blood. The victory of the Republican is a food for thought for the Muslim community. There were many smugglers and businessmen from oil industry in the Bush cabinet who have been busy in promotion of the Zionism and paving the way for Greater Israel.

The Zionist lobbies of Bush era wrote the script of the tragic drama of 9/11 to plunder the natural resources and energy deposits of the Middle East and the US forces imposed on Kabul and Baghdad the terrifying war on the earth and occupied the two countries after thrusting the responsibility of the destruction of the Twin Towers on Al-Qaeda, Muslim fighters, jihadist organizations and Saddam Hussein. The US and allies spilled the blood of two million Muslims in Iraq and Kabul and this barbarism is still continuing. The wise intellectuals bragged that the victory of the Republican cannot affect Pakistan. Those expressing such opinions are devoid of wisdom because they are unaware of this threat that voices of selecting Pakistan for the next round of war are constantly appearing in the Western media. Under the banner of ISAF (International Security Assistance Force), 120,000 are busy in battles in Afghanistan. ISAF consists of the military power of the 50 advanced countries of the world.

Impact of Afghan War
The Afghan war is the longest and the most dangerous war of the history of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). Taliban have stunned the occupation forces. The US has started dialogue with the rivals with key role of Pakistan to avert the ugly stain of defeat. Reports are appearing in the Western media that if the terrorism could not be confined to South Asia, Afghanistan and borders of FATA [Federally Administered Tribal Areas], the West would be crying because of its threat. Instead of Kabul, the global players have focused their sights on the border region of Pakistan. The Japan Times has reported that the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and Mosad have planned bomb explosions, terrorism and suicide attacks in several areas of Europe for which Pakistan will be accused and then a war will start in Pakistan on the pattern of Afghanistan.

The US think tanks and military analysts say that achievement of the Western interests in the Afghan war is not possible until the military power of Pakistan is not overcome. The Pentagon has given target to the US agencies to swiftly use the effective prescription of propaganda and to stuff the minds of the people of West that Pakistan is a threat for the West. The Western newspapers, TheWall Street Journal, Sky News and BBC are crying that drill for Mumbai-type attacks in Europe is going on in Pakistan. Renowned intellectual Van Madson says he has found secret documents in Washington containing details about destruction of Pakistani nuclear arms by Mosad in 1982.

Anticipated Failure of Helmand Military Operation

The international and Afghan media reported that a large number of civilian were killed in the military operation, Mushtarak, launched in the Helmand province of the country. The international organizations say that the coalition forces were not letting their medical teams to look after the wounded civilians in the war-zone. Due to lack of emergency cover, many civilians succumbed to injuries in the Helmand area.

The international media also reported that the North Atlantic treaty Organization (NATO) led troops were facing stiff resistance in the Taliban strong hold of Marjah. Because of this resistance, the NATO forces have slowed down their advance in the area.

Operation Mushtarak
If media reports are to be believed then so far the Taliban are successful in their military strategy and there is a fear of Operation Mushtarak failure in Helmand. In this scenario, the US president has called a meeting of his military advisers.

On February 13, the Coalition forces started its military operation in the Southern Afghan province of Helmand and this offensive was code named Operation Mushtarak. In this operation, the districts of Helmand including Lashkar Gah, Nadali and Marjah town were the focused targets.

The mentioned areas were said to be the strongholds of Taliban while Marjah is such a place where NATO and US troops so far could not make any success against the Taliban since the country was attacked in 2001. The international troops were frightened to wage war in this dangerous area.

Targeting Innocent People
It must be noted that in the ongoing operation, in addition to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), American Mariners and 15,000 other troops of various US Army units were taking part. The military action was also one of the largest operations since 2001 in Afghanistan. However, innocent people were targeted on large scale in this military operation as the civilian populated areas were frequently attacked. These killing of civilians are reported in the international media regularly. One such report was recently compiled by the reputed The New York Times.

Rockets fired by the coalition troops hit a residential compound in Helmand and 12 civilians were killed on the spot in this incident. The slain persons included five kids and 5 women and all the deceased belonged were from the same family. While in this connection, by killing innocent civilians, the operation would hardly contribute to its success.

The local population hate against the US-NATO led forces was on rise in the area and the benefit directly goes to the Taliban. The Taliban staged a defensive deliberate retreat in the area to provide safety to the civilian population.

The civilian population was strongly alienating and they were becoming deadly against the international troops way of war. The matter turned so serious that even the Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed his displeasure were the killing of the Afghan civilians.

The Amnesty International also expressed serious concerns over the killing of innocent Afghan citizens despite the commitment of the ISAF and US to avoid collateral damages. The civil population in the conflict-hit area could not shift to safer places due to a number of reasons and resultantly the losses of the civilians were on the rise in the military action.

Medical Supplies and Treatment
The Italian relief organization, Emergency disclosed that many a civilians could not be treated as most of the roads in the area were blocked by the Coalition Troops and the death-toll was on the rise owing to the blockade.

The organization has expressed its concern over the rising killings of the innocents and termed it a war-crime. The same apprehensions were voiced by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The ICRC said that the civilian population stuck in the war-zone needed urgent medical supplies and treatment but the roads were closed by the NATO and US forces. There was no access to the injured and the ailing, the ICRC reported. The ICRC further said that 40 km away from Marjah is a hospital; however, it lacked proper medical facilities.

The claim of the ISAF to have brought under control 70 percent area in Helmand is baseless. The Afghan citizens were expressing intense concern over the killing of civilians in Helmand. They said the Taliban were staging rigorous resistance to the US and NATO forces. The Wall Street Journal said the same thing also.

Its report said the progress and advance of the forces in Marjah and Nadali was very slow and the biggest challenge was the Taliban Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), which were planted in the whole region by the Taliban before the operation in the areas. The Taliban even planted IED on trees branches and inside walls in addition to the roads.

A commander of the Afghan military Brigade One, Sherin Shah said the coalition troops were suffering increasing human losses due to the IEDs.