A New Deadly War Game of Terror Unleashed in Middle East

  In past few decades Newspapers and broadcast media are fraught with the upsurge in middle east. The Storm of terror is hurling in Gulf countries around the axis of United States. Most noticeable fact is the involvement of US in almost every single political activity of Asia. A new war game of Interventionism has been launched to deal with the rest of the world in a way that best secures and advances its proper national interests. This seems quite preposterous to me as founding fathers of America pledged to establish the peace and commerce between nations and were against involvement in political and military  alliances, so called Noninterventionism.

  Nonintervention simply means America does not interfere militarily, financially, or covertly in the internal affairs of other nations.

In the words of George Washington

"It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world."

  Seems USA has comfortably ignored and defied the basic principles of their foreign policy laid down by the veterans. Monroe Doctrine which was one of the most formidable principles of their foreign policy clearly asserted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries. The Doctrine was issued at a time when many Latin American countries were on the verge of becoming independent from the Spanish Empire. The United States, reflecting concerns raised by Great Britain, ultimately hoped to avoid having any European power take over Spain's colonies.'America for the Americans', a clear message to the world of political hegemony and indisputable right of unilateral intervention over the American continent.

  But today America has emerged as the destiny maker for many middle east and other Asian countries and has brought innumerable casualities. Right after the World War II there was a tremendous amount of political conflicts, proxy wars, social-economical-scientific competitions between the United States and its allies and the Communist world-primarily Soviet Union and its allies popularly knows as Cold War.

  Prior to 1980, Teheran was one of Washington's most allied allies, a heavily armed outpost that practised repression against its own people, looted the oil wealth of the country, and helped in the projection of American power in the Persian Gulf and West Asia. During the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, United States supported the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in its aggression against Iran and the 1990s saw the erection of a range of sanctions aimed at stifling the Iranian oil industry and USA's persuasion for a regime change. The nuclear issue of Iran had brought Washington to the verge of war but later lack of options compelled President Bush to participate in multilateral negotiations with Iran.

  President George W. Bush himself established the link between Iraq and terrorism by stressing the need to deny sanctuary to terrorists anywhere in the world and pointing to the totalitarian threat posed by state sponsors of terrorism with potential access to weapons of mass destruction. He also declared that it was the stated policy of his government to have regime change in Iraq. It is increasingly regarded as having failed campaign in Iraq to bring about either democratic changes or security for the Persian Gulf region. Numerous countries are challenging, if not directly violating, the sanctions regime, and international support has largely eroded. Consequently widespread opposition has spread in the Middle East—across the region at the street level and increasingly at the governmental level as well.

  In US led NATO strikes (claimed to be an attempt to assassinate the Libyan leader) Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived but it killed his youngest son and three of his grandchildren.The strike came hours after Gaddafi called for a ceasefire in the civil war and The Libyan government gave its consent for a political resolution to the conflict.  Clearly  leaders are being targeted and this strengthens the regime change policy of  USA. Besides this USA is actively involved in an upsurge against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. America is also aggressively making other countries like Pakistan its military non NATO ally and is pressuring the  government to sign a defense logistic agreement with it. America wants that its air force and navy use others airports and other facilities and also use their military in fighting their war in the region. Such unrestricted interventions and alliances have posed serious threats to the sovereignty of nations affected. Negotiations and alliances  must be unconditional and every nation has full right to take their decisions to join an alliance or say in enriching themselves with nuclear energy. Every country has right to decide on their internal affairs and political system through democratic dialogue away from an outside threat.

  Seemingly USA is omnipresent targeting the political unrest in the rest of the world and has turned notorious for engineering “regime change” in countries that do not act at its behest. They claim to bring justice to the innocent victims but countless men, women and children have lost their lives in US and allies led operations and in the aftermath not even some semblance of normalcy is observed. No doubt USA has led some operations which were directly or indirectly for the common good but waging war and heaving casualties cannot justify their acts claimed to be humanitarian.

  When asked if the WikiLeaks would damage American relations with other countries, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates noted that "governments deal with the United States because it's in their interest, not because they like us, not because they trust us, and not because they believe we can keep secrets." Well here lies the key. Apart from deliberate interventions there is one more thing that drives USA into others interests, Invitation. Every regime should bear this in mind that an outsider can never understand the value of your people's life and property if you can not, can never feel the pulse of the nation if you cannot. If you cannot take care of your own people somebody else will. All the territories should resolve their issues by engaing in bilateral talks involving only those who has geopolitical significance for the issue, instead of looking for a response from Washington as vested interests will always be there. Dependency on so called super powers like United states or others  should be curtailed. Nothing gives a right to wage a war unless a direct threat has been given. Promising peace by waging war seems contradictory.

  Moreover It is time for USA to reevaluate the interventionist foreign policy. It is time to understand the obvious casualties that results from being involved time and time again into intractable and endless Middle East conflicts, whether in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Somalia, Lebanon, Afghanistan or Palestine. It is definitely time to ask yourselves whether further American lives and tax dollars should be lost trying to remake the Middle East in your image.  It is time to analyze:

• The clear and present threat to U.S. security interests to justify going to war.
• Should the U.S., as historically a "benign power", move toward a paradigm shift to pre-emptive war without the elaboration  of an international strategic context and policy?
• What are the consequences and implications of the U.S. going it alone if there is little international support for military   action?
• Will a military attack in which a regime's survival is at stake result in the use of chemical and biological weapons   against U.S. military and/or neighboring states? 

  World has suffered a lot because of the colonisation policy of Britain secured by cultural hegemony, this time political hegemony of the west is raising its ugly head. If "America is for Americans" then the same principle applies to others as well. Let them decide their fate themselves. United States’ theory of preemptive wars, so as to “adapt to new threats” needs to be discouraged. USA and its allies seek after political and military control of the world. Stress is building engulfing sheer force having the potential to wage the great confrontation in the Arab World and Central Asia in distant future – a confrontation that will detonate in local,regional or even global wars, which will witness changing regimes, perhaps also the borders of some countries and above all cause a great loss to humanity.

                                

                                                                                                       -  Saurabh

"The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people."