Showing posts with label The Soviet Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Soviet Union. Show all posts

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Causes of Growing Global Terrorism

The United States has never wanted peace in the world. Every country of the world is compelled to obey the United States out of fear. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the United States got the title of "sole superpower." International community should make the United States understand that elimination of terrorism is necessary but regretfully Americans do not want to end the causes of terrorism?
Post World War Scenario
The United States appears to be standing behind every war since the World War. More than 2 million Koreans were killed in the Korean war from 1949 to 1953. When the Vietnam war was fought in the next decade, more than 4.1 million Vietnamese were killed from 1959 to 1975. These include the citizens of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and Cambodia. The confrontation was still on when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 and 1.3 million Afghans were killed. Then, the flames of Gulf war engulfed the entire region. Thousands of Iraqi children died a helpless death. Thousands of people craved for medicines in hospitals and severe food shortage emerged. The world was still recovering from this shock when the United States landed its troops in Afghanistan. The United States invaded the resource-rich country to hunt Osama Bin Laden. Later, Iraq was also ruined and the United States claimed that Iraq had chemical weapons.
Similarly, Kashmir issue remains unresolved until today in spite of having been recognized at international level. Many other devastations of this nature hit the world over the past eight decades but most of them were related to natural calamities. If matters are closely observed, it would appear that the United States is behind all these devastations and wars in one way or another. The United States launches wars under one pretext or the other and then devastation becomes the fate of the country where it enters. The United States is, at present, the largest arms supplying country. The United States sold weapons worth $800 million in 2007, whereas its own defense budget is over $700 million.
US intellectual Noam Chomsky has been drawing the world attention to this since long. According to him, the United States is assuming the role of an international rascal. On one hand, the United States is raising the attractive slogan of the "war on terror," and on the other, it has assumed the role of the greatest terrorist. Moreover, the United States is pursuing the communist ideology of telling lie and then standing firm in it.
Noam Chomsky considers the United States an international terrorist country in this situation. If we take stock of the international situation after 1990, we will be compelled to believe in what Noam Chomsky says. The way in which the United States made unjust intervention into different countries clearly proves that it is following the policy of imperialism.
US Intervention in Middle East
The greatest responsibility lies on the United States if peace could not be established in the Middle East to date. The United States openly supported the Jewish Israel. The United States supports atrocities being committed against the unarmed Palestinians. If Israel makes the lives of Palestinians miserable in flagrant violation of the UN resolution, the United States recklessly uses its veto in the UN Security Council to support it [Israel]. Thousands of Palestinians have been living in refugee camps in inhuman conditions since 1948. Not only this, Israel massacres innocent Palestinians even in the refugee camps. The killing in the camps of Sabra and Shatila is a clear instance in this regard. Ever since the establishment of Israel, the United States used it like a policeman in the Middle East and did so for the accomplishment of its agenda and to ensure protection of its national interests, particularly the oil supply. Even the United States declared the recent Israeli excesses just that it committed in the form of attack on Lebanon. The United States did not condemn the killing of hundreds of Lebanese citizens and recklessly used its unjust right in the Security Council in support of Israel. As a result, the war continued for approximately 40 days and scores of human lives were lost. The United States set up a puppet regime in Iraq to seize the country's oil reserves. Moreover, the potential threat that Jewish Israel could have faced from a powerful Muslim country [Iraq] has been eliminated. Having tightened Iraq into its clutches, the United States wants to fully focus on Iran, which aspires to acquire nuclear power. It is obvious from the problems that the United States had to face in Iraq regarding Iran, that it will not launch such an attack on Iran.
The US intervention in Afghanistan is approximately 26-year-old and its consequences are before us. Despite all of their drawbacks, the Taliban had succeeded in establishing a stable government in Afghanistan, but the United States made hundreds of Afghan target of its bombing on the basis of suspicion and pushed the country back into the Stone Age and established a puppet regime there. The prevailing situation in Afghanistan is such that innocent people are being killed every other day and the US brutality has crossed all limits.
Antihumanity Measures
When the Islamists set up a stable government in Somalia, which had plunged into civil war and peace started to return to the country, the United States attacked Somalia with the help of Christian Ethiopia. The United States annihilated approximately four Somali villages in the very first attack. The civil war has been going on there ever since.
The man of the contemporary world is fed up of these US antihumanity measures. Smaller and weak countries have started considering it "superpower" to remain safe from its mischief. It is necessary to reign in the US aggression if the terrorism is to be eliminated because it is promoting terrorism.

Friday, July 15, 2011

US To Set Up Permanent Bases in Afghanistan Under New Joint Strategy

The US Congress has held weeklong discussion as to how to adopt a joint plan and principles for joint strategy with Afghanistan to prepare for the approval and the consensus of which countries is necessary for this strategy? US President Barack Obama has sought the opinion of the American Congress on these questions. At last, Obama got the consent of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and on those in the United States whom he needed. Only the neighboring countries of Afghanistan have said that they do not agree with the United States about the joint strategy on Afghanistan.
Setting Up of Joint Commission
Although Pakistan because of some problems has not openly said something about the strategy of the United States on Afghanistan yet Islamabad wanted to exchange its views with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other Afghan authorities about restoration of complete peace in Afghanistan. Afghan Olasi Jirga (National Assembly) faces opposition and questions about this joint strategy. The United States has delayed the topic of joint strategy. The political debates have started and media is giving wide coverage to rockets firing, attacks and militants' infiltration from Afghanistan, attacks on police checkpoints in Pakistani territory and allegations against each other and finally the two countries have agreed over setting up of a joint commission for resolution to the issues. This indicates that such decisions about US-Afghan joint strategy may not take place which continued in the past.
Political analysts of Afghan affairs have given the reason of this silence that neither the Afghan nation nor the entire officials in the Afghan Government have agreed over this joint strategy. They added, the neighboring countries of Afghanistan have also adopted silence on this joint strategy of the United States until improvement in the situation.
Legal Status in Future
It may be noted that the president of any country could not sign any agreement with another country, which is opposed by his parliament and if he signs it, it will have no legal status in the future. As far as the matter of expressing views in the Afghan Olasi Jirga is concerned, the US media, intelligence and other sources are trying to convince the members of the Afghan parliament to have unanimous views about the US-Afghan joint strategy, which also includes the establishment of permanent bases in Afghanistan.
Role of Pakistan
However, Iran has openly opposed the setting up of United States permanent bases and joint cooperation with Afghanistan. Expressing his views, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad said at a press conference in Tehran that the United States wanted to establish permanent bases in Afghanistan to ensure its permanent presence in the region. The United States has rejected each and every Iranian opinion about Afghanistan. Because of its problems, the United States could not clear its position with regard to Pakistan as the United States defeated the forces of former Soviet Union with the support and cooperation of Pakistan.
Although the silence is being observed about the United States joint strategy about Afghanistan, there is concern that this silence may break up because of the agreement of some people, who favor the United States.