Jabhad Posted June 23, 2006 By Hassan Tahsin Arab News, June 23, 2006 Any casual observer of international developments understands that the United States seeks to take full control of the world in the guise of promoting democracy and peace or fighting terrorists. Such an observer will also note that the US has not only failed over the past several decades to resolve international disputes but has created new ones through its unreasonable foreign policies. Its war against North Korea about half a century ago turned out to be a colossal blunder. Worse still, North Korea later emerged as a major arms producer including nuclear warheads. The war the US launched in Vietnam was invariably the most catastrophic and shortsighted — causing untold miseries to the people of the region as well as in the US. The US strategy in Lebanon and East Timor also proved to be total failures. The American administration coerced Indonesia to cede the Christian-dominated Far Eastern island as though it was the only solution to the issues plaguing the region. Now the region is passing through a deep internal strife. The US has also been encouraging the Christians of southern Sudan to break away from Sudan, besides attempting to blow the Darfur issue out of all proportion. There are two objectives behind this strategy: First, to pave the way for external intervention and second, to separate the region from Sudan. The US had intervened previously in Somalia both militarily and politically and later fled the country after plunging the land into a state of utter lawlessness. The US intervention in Afghanistan has only made things worse there. Iraq is the latest in a line of failed US adventures. Despite the elimination of Al-Zarqawi, a symbol of international terror, the US has begun to realize the truth that it has failed in Iraq. The hurried installation of a government will provide the excuse for the US to exit if it really wanted to do so. The failure of the US policy in Somalia has been sealed with the Islamic Courts Union gaining control of Mogadishu and defeating the US-supported warlords. The warlords were never been in a position to form a government even if the US wanted them to do it. Reacting to the recent developments in Mogadishu, President George Bush spoke as though the events were taking place in Washington. Expressing his fears about the Islamic initiative, the president said he would devise plans to confront the Islamists and pre-empt any possibility of the Somalia becoming an “Al-Qaeda havenâ€. The US has been playing an extremely dangerous game in Somalia throwing to the wind all international conventions by supporting the warlords to foil the efforts to restore peace in the land. While keeping its own soldiers safe from the quicksand of Somali politics, the US is virtually making it impossible for any group to form a strong central government. Warlords have no code of conduct and behave as they want to pave the way for the disintegration of a Muslim nation — something the US devoutly wishes. President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Congo Republic, the current head of the African Union, has criticized the US for its support to the warlords that would only prolong the miseries of the people of that country. The AU chief expressed the hope that Washington would support the Somali people and not the warlords. Somalia has been thrown into a state of chaos since 1991 after President Siad Barre was forced to step down. Many wonder why the United Nations, particularly the Security Council, is not making any effort to stabilize the country. The situation has been allowed to worsen because the world body has been behaving as US lackey. Though the initial objective of the Islamic Courts Union founded by Shareef Sheikh Ahmad in 2004 was to provide the people with essential services such as education, health etc., it has to enter the politics with the intention of saving the country from total collapse. Washington has rejected the ICU government because the union derives its strength from the Islamic ideology. The US justifies its hostile stand saying that the ICU government would threaten Somalia’s Christian neighbors Ethiopia and Kenya. While most of the US strategies put in operation with the ostensible aim of establishing peace and promoting democracy were bound to fail, all its plans to attack Muslim nations have, unfortunately, been very successful. But this is not because of the brilliance of the US policies but because of the negative and shortsighted policies of the Arab and Muslim leadership. Hassan Tahsin, hassan_tahsin@hotmail.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
