Should I rejoice at the fall(as opposed to the end) of Saddam Hussein? Or should I be vary of a new imperialism?
Someone has got to pay for the clean-up. In this case, America is undoing what it did many years ago. Create dictators. In its punch-up against Iran, America created Saddam, a Tikrit thug who scored his first kill at the age of 11! The reason? Fighting fundamentalism or protecting oil pockets?
Afghanistan.Russia played spoil-sport. So America created Osama Bin Laden, loaded him with missiles and rocket launchers and loads of support. Reason? Check communism or seek base against China and Iran?
The world changes, moods change, feelings change, opinions change, new truths emerge, new causes emerge, new enemies emerge.when you run out of enemies, target your friends. So Saddam and Osama turn enemies. China and oil pockets remain as concerns. All of a sudden, WMDs, nukes and chemical weapons are discussed. Who gave Saddam the WMDs? Who facilitated them? Who powered him enough to threaten anyone with them? Had there been no support from the US would Saddam have these? So when you gave it to him why cry hoarse over them? Did u not know that u were propping up a thug who turned killer at the age of 11, back then? Why didn’t you think of a stable democracy back then when u found Saddam as an ideal guard against Iran?
Iran needs a Saddam, Saddam needs Iran: check and counter check. Fight away while we sip the oil. Whoever stands, we finish him off. It was America who created all these threats.Saddam, Osama, Al-Qaeda, and all those trigger-happy thugs. It is America who demands the world to clean it up. So clean it up yourself. But do not ask for support. This is not a war of liberation to secure peace and freedom. It is the mopping up of a great deal of leftover garbage.
First Korea, then Vietnam, then Afghanistan, then Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Libya, Panama, Nicaragua.
America has interests everywhere. Material or strategic. Venezuela, the Gulf, Iraq, Iran, Egypt and many more countries got oil. Oil is a concern for the largest guzzler in the world; though it may not be the reason for the current war on Iraq, oil could well be a major spin-off, like, you know, killing two birds with one stone.
Strategic interests? A document, *Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century * was prepared by a neo-conservative government group called Project for the New American Century. It asks:
’Does the United States have the resolve to shape a century favorable to America’s principles and interests?’
It’calls for a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad’ and for’a national leadership that accepts the United States’ global responsibilities’ It warns’If we shirk our responsibilities, we invite challenges to our fundamental interests.’
This document, by the way, does not have any reference to
what the American principles and fundamental interests are. Nor any reference to democracy, equality, plurality, world peace, environment preservation, poverty alleviation and human rights.
The document also calls for a US pre-eminence in all matters to preclude the rise of any rival power. It seeks to prevent situations where Europe could rival the USA. It spotlights China for’regime change’; calls for the creation of a’US Space Force’ to dominate space and cyberspace in order to prevent’enemies’ from using the Internet against the US and hints the US to develop biological weapons.
In short, every event occurring in the world is supposed to occur with direct benefits to and within the interests of America. If not, the events have to be motivated.even at the expense of other’s interests. Survival of the Fittest. Saddam is a dictator of Iraq. America wants to dictate terms to the world.who is a bigger threat to democracy?
The war in Iraq with a mission to secure peace and freedom to Iraqis and the world in general has an ulterior motive. Oil is a small accrual.(America’s its 60-year-old monopoly lease of Saudi oil fields comes to an end in 2005 and Venezuela is in a political crisis. Iraq’s vast reserves are handy). The major accrual is presence in the region.stronger than before. How could Iraq emaciated by 12 years of sanctions threaten a mighty America and its freedom? Al Qaeda is hardly friendly with Saddam and he hasn’t got a teeny-weeny nuke either. Still, its war with Iraq and diplomatic talks with North Korea that threatened to nuke America!
It may seem like a doomsday conspiracy theory from a schizophrenic mind.but the following theory is not entirely baseless:
America wants to colonize at least the developing world for its interests. So Iraq gets a dictator first, it loses sight of democracy, becomes a threat, then enter America, secures freedom, stays behind to guarantee it, takes oil in exchange of policing(’hafta’), builds up a mighty base, targets another country(did we hear Iran and Syria recently?) does the same.keeps on going until the Star and Stripes is a visible entity in strange lands. Not necessarily, the British Raj kind of imperialism.but the S&S rule is external puppetry.reminds one of the hammer and sickle branding? Well it is the turn of the star and stripes now.
’Greedy, selfish and insensitive’ Germany, France and Russia cry hoarse against this war.they have a right. they need a share in the pie.a respectable share.dictated by them. However, their motive may not entirely be imperialistic.but merely securing a future for themselves when the world runs out of resources.
So there. Saddam is gone.long live freedom.Long live interests of America.