Amid all the theatrics:Blood and destruction under different themes [Archives:2005/847/Opinion]

With all the theatrics of the Iraq War, one wonders how much blood and destruction must accompany the American debacle in Iraq, before the Bush Administration realizes and admits that it simply decided to go to war in the wrong place and at the wrong time and of course for the wrong reason. When the going gets tough and the world reaction is pointing to the obvious that “we told you so”, Zerqawi is said to have become wounded! How much baloney can one really take as America carries out a war breaking all the rules set by international conventions that took more than a century to put on the international legislative and diplomatic framework? At the same time it wishes to convince us that this is a war against terror and now is on the verge of redefining its policies and strategy.

One wonders really if the intention of the Bush Administration is to fully deliver on its War on Terror, as it has allowed most of the Al-Qaeda top leaders (and Zerqawi) to escape unharmed and actually finds ways to support their operations. How does one explain the ability of people like Bin Laden and Abu Musa Al-Zerqawi to have access to the Internet and other communications media to “keep the War on Terror” alive? The third news of Al-Zerqawi's injuries points to a clear effort to give some credit for the American drive to terminate the “insurgency”, while at the same time to bolster the image of Al-Zerqawi among the Moslems of the world, who are not at all pleased with the ugly bloodletting that are attributed to Al-Zerqawi and his murderous bunch. The theatrics are simply too corny and are becoming less and less credible as they point to a dirty game by careless ideologues from here and there, who think that the whole world is a stage that they can manipulate to their own desires and to meet their own goals. Needless to say, those goals are not fully transparent to the American people at large, nor the international community. However, you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.

Rather than finding ways to overcome the failure to show signs of success, the Bush Administration is broadening its efforts to include an all out War on Islam, through the implementation of a War against Extremism. Perhaps this is what the War on Sa'ada is all about. The extremism is left for anyone to define in a way that suits their whim, even if it means diverting from the War against Al-Qaeda to a War against established traditional religious institutions that are as harmless as lambs, comparatively speaking, but nevertheless strong on convictions that are consistent with traditional values and work to uphold stolen rights of Moslems that need to be redressed.
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