War and Peace:Arab Time Capsule and Its Butterfly Effect
08 October 2014
By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
President Obama's War Agenda
Devoid of knowledge, paranoid and
vengeful, President Obama's raging statements and
policy outlines of "an inclusive government in Iraq
and to defeat the ISIL" are obsessed with fear of the
unknown threatening American global hegemony and
futuristic vulnerability to remain a superpower.
President Obama is operating amid matrix of lies and
political deceptions. The extension of aggressive war
against ISIL in Iraq- Syria simply replaces the old
rhetoric of anti-Al-Qaeda syndrome. The goal is to
incapacitate the sustainability of the oil producing
Arab countries to ensure complete interdependency on
American weapon sales and military intervention. The
overwhelmingly foreign policy views the Arab world as
dormant, self-centered and unable to challenge the US
ambitions and its geography open to further foreign
occupation. Yemen, Iraq and Syria are the carved
portraits of the US strategic policy of containment.
Today, Yemen's capital Sanaa is overtaken by the
Houtis - the Shite group fighting for a balanced
political representation in the governance. The
sectarian crises in Yemen are outcomes of the US
military intervention and drone attacks on innocent
civilians. Yemen was incapacitated to workout
political solution. The scenario of military
intervention aims at dismantling the entire cultural
and civilizational structures of the Arab world.
Professor James Petras ("The US and Global Wars:
Empire or Vampire?" Global Research: 9/11.2014), an
international scholar and co-author of Globalization
Unmasked and most recent book: The Arab Revolt and the
Imperialist Counterattack, offers candid observations
on Obama's new intervention in Iraq and Syria:
Contemporary US intervention does not
seek to secure and take over the existing military and
civilian state apparatus; instead the invaders
fragment the conquered state, decimate its cadres,
professionals and experts at all levels, thus
providing an entry for the most retrograde
ethno-religious, regional, tribal and clan leaders to
engage in intra-ethnic, sectarian wars against each
other, in other words – chaos….. With US invasions,
entire existing socio-economic structures are
undermined, not ‘taken over': all productive activity
is subject to the military priorities of leaders bent
on permanently crippling the conquered state and its
advanced economic, administrative, educational,
cultural and social sectors.
President Obama's statements reaffirm
the historical aim of "Crusade" against Muslims under
the guise of stopping ISIL territorial gains in Iraq
and Syria. This group does not have the capacity or
aim to threaten America or its West European allies.
The Iran's sponsored "Iraq's Shiite militias are
becoming as great a danger as the Islamic State" warns
Phillip Smyth writing in Foreign Policy issue of
September 18, 2014: "All the Ayatollah's Men." Badr
Organziation is another armed group operating under
Iran's direction, explains Phillip Smyth: "Badr also
has great influence in the political sphere: It has
secured key positions within the Iraqi government, and
is part of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's State of
Law alliance -- Abadi even wants to appoint its
leader, Hadi al-Amiri, as the country's interior
minister."
Stephen Lendman ("Obama Threatens War
on Humanity." Information Clearing house: 9/11/2014),
is a Chicago-based author of many booksincluding
the latest: "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for
Hegemony Risks WW III.", investigative journalist and
a peace activist and a man of global human conscience
depicts the imagery of Obama's mind:
Permanent war is official US policy.
Obama is the latest in a long line of rogue warrior
presidents. America's culture is violent. It's always
been this way. It glorifies wars in the name of
peace….. "Pav(ing) The Road To War With (Big) Lies,"
says Paul Craig Roberts……Seeking world dominance.
Replacing independent governments with pro-Western
stooge regimes. It's wanting unchallenged first-strike
capability. It's risking humanity-destroying global
war in the process. America is addicted to war. They
rage one after another or in multiples. They're not
about spreading democratic values……Or humanitarian
intervention. Or responsibility to protect. Or
eliminating terrorist threats. Or making the world
safe for humanity. America was never beautiful. It's
no "land of the free and home of the brave." It's a
serial killer. A war on humanity monster. An
out-of-control rogue state. An ideologically
over-the-top evil empire.
Is the Arab World Coming to an End?
Truth-telling and critical rational
analysis of the prevalent political imperatives of
global political affairs must penetrate to open-up the
thinking of the closed Arab leadership mindset.
Consequently, they can find out ways to reject
Obama's matrix of political lies. The only known
Middle East conflict was between Israel and Palestine
and to search for a peaceful settlement of the
existence of State of Israel and establishment of an
independent State of Palestine. The 2003 American-led
war against Iraq was planned to subside the real
issues of the Arab world and to give credence to
unthinkable new political problems and sectarian
warfare turning the Arab leaders into mincemeat and
dummy character readily susceptible to more weapon
sales and military interventions. The 21stcentury
oil exporting Arab world is a world of delusion and
fantasy floating in its own bubble of economic
prosperity in complete disconnect to the mainstream of
global compelling political realities.
The voices of reason and human
conscience must speak out loud and clear. With
unstoppable cycle of political killings, sectarian
massacres and daily bloodbaths emerging across the
Arab world - Syria, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon and
Yemen, and spill-over impacts to other oil producing
Arab nations - and reactionary militancy against the
authoritarian rule and dismantling of the
socio-economic infrastructures: is
the Arab world fast approaching the end of history?
Once the Arabs were leaders in knowledge, peace,
creativity, science and human manifestation, progress
and future-making - the Islamic civilization lasted
eight hundred years in Al-Andulsia- Spain. But when
they replaced Islam - the power and core value of
their advancements with petro-dollars transitory
economic prosperity, they failed to think
intelligently and fell in disgrace and lost what was
gained over the centuries. Ironically, Arab people are
skeptical about the Western politically oppressive
domination- from George Bush to Barrack Obama. Yet,
these are the same political leaders who have helped
the Arab masses to get rid off some of the worst
authoritarian dictators- Ghaddafi, Saddam, Hosni
Mubarak and Ben Ali dominating most of the Arab Middle
East. Strangely enough after more than sixty years of
end of European imperialism, the Arab societies do not
have any educated, responsible and intelligent leaders
to offer sense of moral and political security to the
people in crisis? Where is the Arab leader's moral
and intellectual consciousness of the gravity of the
crises – emerging death squads, politically geared
sectarian violence and accountability to the people?
The contemporary Arab world is a world
of distractions and false imagery of hallow happiness,
extortion and painful miseries if one is to see the
real pictures of the existing societies. The Obama
Military Plan being enforced in Iraq and against ISIL
exposes its own strategies at work that Arab people
should be bombarded, occupied by force and dehumanized
to the extent not to gain unity of purpose to be One
People- Muslim Ummah as Islam bridged the tribal
differences of the age of ignorance and enabled the
much belligerent tribal cultures into a Unity of
Faith- One Nation in complete submission to God. The
secular ingrained Arab leaders view Islam as a
challenge not a place of Unity for change and human
development as was the case prior to the discovery of
oil reserves.
If the Arab leaders had any
intellectual foresight they should have refused to
join ‘the coalition of the willing' to support Obama's
war plan in Iraq and Syria. Both Saudi Arabia and
Kuwait were complacent in providing logistical support
to US-led bogus war on terrorism against Iraq in March
2003. If the theory of the Clash of Civilizations had
any purpose and meaning to be clarified, it is
becoming more apparent that President Obama and some
of the Western European leaders – British and French
in particular, are allied to re-invent a new age of
Crusade against the Arab world. The American, British
and French military actions against ISIL in Iraq-Syria
will provide coverage to their long-terms strategic
ambitions to destabilize the Arab region and
ultimately to take control of the oil resources and
management of the Arab States. This scheme of
political thinking and emerging air strikes in
Iraq-Syria will enlarge the scope of the US-British
and French military engagements onward to Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. Lacking tangible evidence,
the US intelligence alleges that Sunni businessmen and
other ideological comrades from Saudi Arabia, Qatar
and the UAE support the ISIL structure and operations.
This paradigm will articulate a strategically
favorable situation on the ground to make feasible
adjustments to Arab geography and to facilitate most
favorable solution to the Israel-Palestine problem.
This means no solution will be a thinkable alternative
on the freedom of Palestine. American friendship and
animosity are problematic in constantly changing
global affairs. The Arab rulers are nothing more than
dead wood stump entity in challenging global political
arena. America used to preach human rights, freedom
and democracy but it conspired and supports
authoritarian absolutism across the Arab world. The
Western political mythologists do not envisage Islam
as part of the Arab culture and economic destiny.
Islam focused on human development, societal change
and institutional development for people's
participatory institution-building and system of
governance to ensure law and justice to all. But the
contemporary Arab rulers denied to masses what was
theirs by faith, culture, hopes and history.
The Perpetuated Genocide in Iraq
will soon engulf other Arab Countries
The ISIS group owes its origin to the
US strategy and military intervention in Iraq. But
after the facts, America and some of its European
allies fear of a less engaged role and cumbersome
futuristic domination of the oil enriched Iraq and the
neighboring Saudi Arabia and UAE. They want to contain
the ISIS now ISIL as an Islamic Caliphate- governing
body of the conquered regions in Iraq and Syria. ISIL
is one of the composite groups fighting to overthrow
the authoritarian regimes, do not pose any direct
threat to challenge the US-British homeland security
or sovereignty. Sherwood Ross ("US Sponsored Genocide
against Iraq 1990-2012 killed 3.3 million including
750,000 children." Global Research: 12/06/2012),
revisits the statement made by Professor Francis
Boyle, Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal and many other
investigative reports clearly blame the US led forces
to have massacred more than three millions civilians
in Iraq. The US and British are responsible for much
of Iraq's planned destruction, increased sectarian
violence and dismantling of the political governance.
The global news media depicts the
horrifying daily scenes of sectarian hatred and
political killings across Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya,
Afghanistan and Egypt and more to come in other parts
of the Arabian states. Time is not on the side of
the Arab rulers. Do American masses care about the
on-going massacres of civilians in other lands?
America is in a grip of crises, one after another as
legal and political repercussions of the continued
wars against Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The war mentality has not changed under Obama's
presidency and much intended political stunt"Yes
We Can."Obama's
failure is written on boards when several thousands
innocent American citizens are gunned down by domestic
violence and political intransigence. The war veterans
continue to commit suicide at an alarming rate of
18-25 per day ("Why do soldiers commit suicide and
Global Warlords." Uncommon Thought Journal:
4/14/2014)). What does it tell about America's leaders
and the Congress making bogus wars on others? America
is bankrupt in moral, financial, political and
intellectual domains. Over the centuries what was
evolved and built by its historical thinkers,
philosophers and political leaders, has been
undermined and destroyed by George W. Bush and Barrack
Obama just in a decade. The War on Terrorism has
crippled America's political capacity and image as a
superpower and its moral and intellectual strength on
a global scale that no nations can take it seriously
any more. "Is America at war with itself and that war
is illusion" wonders William Boardman ("A Country At
War With An Illusion." Information Clearing House:
8/19/2013) and then what is the cure? …"No wonder we
seem sometimes to be at war with ourselves, and have
been for most of the 21st century….No American
Under 12 Has Lived In A Country At Peace….America's
Main Enemy Is Nameless, Shapeless, "Associated
Forces"…The
American Enemies List Is Decided Anonymously and
Secretly.
Do the Arab Leaders have Moral and
Intellectual Credibility to Envisage Sustainable
Future
The Arab League in Cairo, the OIC and
the GCC based in Saudi Arabia and nameless other
enterprises are just paper-based titles in dry ink and
nothing more. Ironically, Arab world has no competent
and fighting armed forces to defend its faith,
geography and people. The only well established
institution that maintains Arab authoritarian
governance is secretive police apparatus. There are no
public institutions to deal with critical issues of
peace and conflict management. Across the Middle
East, Israel is the only country having institutions
of peace and conflict analysis and viable system of
political governance. How should the global humanity
view the contemporary Arab societies, their war torn
bloody cultures run by few authoritarian figures?
What kind of message of civility, moral and
intellectual values do they convey to the watchful
eyes of the global community? The present Arab leaders
are a failure on all of the major frontlines of global
affairs. What happened to their Islamic culture,
values and glorious civilization? Was the petrodollar
a conspiracy ("fitna") to disconnect the Arab
people from Islamic civilization? The
petro dollar maintained superficial economic
prosperity has removed sense of fear and shame to the
extent that over several decades of cruelty has
embolden the Arab dictators to commit any crimes,
bloodbaths and rob the people of their originality of
thinking, culture and history. Would the future
generations free of foreign captivity hold these
monsters accountable for their infested crimes and
political cruelty?
Leaders of the Western industrialized
nations use the oil exporting Arab leaders as stooges
on their chessboard. Peace and conflict management are
not the imperatives of the Arab chess game. Time is
critical for self-reflection and finding out ways and
means to critical thinking and be able to have theUnityof
Purpose and proactive leadershipto
solve the political crises and consequential
catastrophic humanitarian problems. It is possible
through transformational leadership if educated and
intelligent people of new generation come to assume
the power and leadership role. If the contemporary
Arab leaders have slightest impulse of intelligence,
they should focus their resolve on political change
and to phase-in intelligent and educated people to
assume major offices, make decisions and facilitate
sustainable future. But the Western supported puppet
regimes will not surrender to the will of the people
and urgent requisites of Political Change as it
happened in Egypt. Why millions of innocent people
have become refugees in their own homes, culture and
region? Is there a number game to touch the human
conscience? The Western news media reports indicate
during the past three years more than 150 thousand
civilians were gunned down in cold blood murdered
across Syria. All the civic societal infrastructures
are dismantled because of one man- Bashar al Assad
will not go away like so many of the current Arab
rulers. Millions have become homeless and refugees in
their own backyard. Those few millions fled to Turkey
and other neighboring Arab societies face miserable
conditions for survival. None of the Arab countries
have moral, political and physical capacity to deal
with this magnitude of catastrophic humanitarian
crises. Do any of the Arab leaders realize the
plights, pains and sufferings of these innocent
people? Why should common people be the victims of
authoritarian insanity? What other priorities do the
Arab leaders have if they cannot deal with problem
solving and restore public trust and normalcy in their
own homeland? If they are waiting to get workable
solutions from Washington, London or Paris, they could
not be more stupid and disconnected in this
knowledge-based age of global affairs. Soon they will
see unthinkable hangings and face replacement by their
own Master. Some of the Western leaders including the
US are asking Bashar al-Assad to step down but not to
other authoritarian Arab rulers subservient to the US
and its European allies. Have the egoistic rulers
misread the lessons of history? Could they be
thoughtful of their own future - how would they end-up
- most likely sooner than later? Have the Arab rulers
solved any of the important problems confronting the
Arab masses over half of a century?
(Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes
in global security, peace and conflict resolution with
keen interests in Islamic-Western comparative cultures
and civilizations, and author of several publications
including the latest: Global Peace and Conflict
Management: Man and Humanity in Search of New
Thinking. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, May
2012).