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U. S. : Axe to Grind
by
Mumtaz Hamid Rao
Flaunt of global perspective—with a crystal-clear
expression of loathing vis-à-vis US masquerade towards Iraq—has
indeed left no raison d'être for White House to axe for grind.
The enormity of bemoan against war—from London to Canberra n’
Georgia to Jakarta—should pragmatically serve as an eye-opener
for the United Nations in broad-spectrum and Bush administration
in meticulous to divulge the veracity that today’s world aspires
for peace alone—disliking all types of skirmishes for an affluent
survival of the humankind. Gone are the days when hegemonic waft
was in the rampant as the 21st century epoch is neither a
stone-age era nor a span of pre-eminence for an explicit nation
because sovereignty is accredited with the same gauge as is
enshrined in the UN charter—which has the logo of equilibrium as
the singular pedestal for all the members of the world
body—irrespective of their faith, colour, cast, creed or credo.
This can—in no way—be wiped out by any power—may it be a super
one—or else the mandatory theory that ‘a state is composed
of—territory, population n’ sovereignty’ would stand evaporated
in a jiffy. The week-end’s one-voice by millions of human species
shall thus have to be acknowledged—without any disinclination—at
least by an erudite realm—the United States to turn aside a
cataclysmic scenario on this planet—if not for others, for its
own generations in times ahead.
Astringently, President Bush has—on the divergent—asked
the UN Security Council to ‘make up its mind soon’ about confronting
Iraq with a warning to the averse world leaders that ‘the United States
won’t wait for long to lead a coalition to disarm Saddam Hussein
itself’. [Why doesn’t he divert his neurotic guns n’ shrewd fighters
towards India for putting its constant n’ consistent acts of carnage of
guiltless people of the illegally-held part of the Himalayan State of
Jammu & Kashmir to an instantaneous end—a question, still to be replied
by the solo super power!]
Paradoxically Bush’s anxiety for targeting Iraq is
perceptibly rising sky-scraping with the advent of a every dawn,
bedecked by a colossal focus of US military might in the Gulf. He seems
bent upon imposing death and destruction on the Middle East through a
war against Iraq. It is ironic that the alluring super power is not
ready to listen to the saner voices—neither of the people nor from the
world leaders. Virtually the international community is convinced that
war is unjust and uncalled-for when Iraq is extending full cooperation
to the UN weapons inspectors, who have found no smoking gun in Iraq.
Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has attributed an Iraqi scientist’s
willingness to be interviewed—even privately—an icon of Baghdad’s
support with the check path. It’s perceptibly incomprehensive as to why
be Bush so twitchy and bigoted to attack Iraq, when the majority of the
permanent UN Security Council members are resolute for a serene
resolution of the crisis. If at all, he has no leaning towards one’s
sovereignty he should better allow time to the inspectors to accomplish
their task so that he may have an ethical and bona fide authority to
act—in whatever style he wants. Via a realistic view-point his case
against Saddam—at the moment is not justified morally and depicts
nothing except his edginess smacks of a motive, to capture Iraqi
oil—alone. Simultaneously, the US Secretary of State Colin Powell has
hinted a new silhouette of the Middle East after the war which amply
speaks of Washington’s real designs in the region. Bush has proven to be
devoid of ability to comprehend the implication of his pursuit for war.
Saddam Hussein is an individual, but the fact remains that the death and
destruction that US warplanes, guns and bombs will inflict on Iraq is
bound to have catastrophic effects on the entire area. Its ramifications
for the world at large will equally be quite significant.
With this setting, one can only implore that wisdom
prevails in Washington’s warmongering clique so that the loved human
blood is not shed—callously—at the altar of an individual’s lust for the
Iraqi oil. With Hans Blix report to the UN that inspectors have found no
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq followed by President Saddam
Hussein’s vivacious decree forbidding the production or import of
nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or of any materials that could
be used to make them has left no validation whatsoever for the United
States to browbeat the world with alarms of war against Iraq. Baghdad’s
sturdy collaboration with the UN inspectors is apparent from the Blix
report that the scrutiny was swift n’ abrupt and in no case did the
Iraqi side knew—in advance—as to which site the inspectors were going to
visit. It’s unambiguous corroboration of Iraq’s motivation to assist the
inspectors in the implementation of UN Security Council resolution
1441—which harbingered this episode, opening a Pandora’s Box. No doubt
the ‘evidence’ put up by the US Secretary of State Colin Powell was both
blurred and feeble which could by a hair's breadth stir the worldwide
cerebral society whereas Blix’s finale symbolizes the authenticity,
irrespective of the US avers and boasts. It’s, of course, cheering that
Blix has rebuffed to be opinionated by the US bizarre patois against
Iraq and has looked at the substantiation with detachment and
neutrality. It will—thus—be a gaffe on Washington’s part to portray that
‘might is right’—more exclusively with the advent of a new dazzling
millennium.
With a flat NO to a combat by the comity of nations,
morals demand that non-violent mode be espoused to grip the goal rather
than opting for a gratuitous war. Except Bush’s aficionado, Blair of
Britain, every sagacious nation with China, Pakistan, Russia, France,
and Germany atop n’ to a vast scale even Australia plus Canada are
playing an august and marvelous role in forbidding US from resorting to
a perilous act of war. It is an apposite time for Washington to bend
before the universal will—as has been manifested via across-the-board
demos n’ pick a choice for equanimity to save the world from yet another
world-war as the hideous bang on Hiroshima and Nagasaki sticks with
trepidation to humanity even after the passage of almost six decades
when this puckish tragedy detonated the calm into an incessant terror.
Is it now the Gulf’s turn? Sanity prefigures—certainly not. Is it so—the
curators of human rights—as prima facie, you have no axe to grind!
The author is a noted journalist, political analyst and ex-Director News Pakistan TV.
Source:
by courtesy & © 2003 Mumtaz Hamid Rao
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