On the 4th anniversary of Iraq occupation [Archives:2007/1041/Opinion]

By: Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh
The 4th anniversary of the U.S and British invasion of Iraq shouldn't pass without disclosing what the invaders committed against the Arab World in general and Iraq in particular. The occupation of Iraq, along with the killings, destruction, and looting, is merely a threat, as well as an introduction to imposing dominance and control over the other Arab states, particularly those that helped the occupation and offered it all the facilities to strike Baghdad. Also, these states continued to help the occupation, even after the fall of Baghdad and the arrival of the western troops, who committed barbaric acts including the demolition of property and killing of innocent citizens.

Four years have passed while Iraq remains under the US-led occupation that intimidated the natives and destroyed all the Arab dreams of a better future for the Arab citizen, who entered the 21st Century with a hope of transferring his land into a paradise to be stepping stone to the eternity. But, what happened at the very beginning of the century of great dreams and hopes, the occupation put an end to the nice imagination and made humanity live in a state of intimidation and fear. Obviously, it assures the humanity that resorting to wars and the use of force in the case of political and economic conflicts is a big catastrophe. The US- British occupation of Iraq faced strong resistance, which had never been expected, thus destroying its military equipment and killing its troops. Such doesn't mean that the occupation has understood the lesson, nor did it decided to select another way for dealing with people of the occupied land. The evidence that the occupation hasn't understood the lesson, nor did it benefit from the experience of the Iraqi's blood swamp is that it is still threatening to launch military operations against other nations neighboring Iraq. The proverb “Please treat me with the cause of illness” applies here as the unwise occupation doesn't know where the proper medicine is. The occupation thinks that what hadn't been achieved through the occupation of Iraq may be achieved by invading other states, which it calls 'Axis of Evil'.

The world fears the blind force, which is led by people infected with political and psychological blindness. Those people believe that they can correct their mistakes by committing other more mistakes. Their arrogance, coupled with their trust in force, make out of them the great risk to the world, either labelled under the axis of evil or the axis of good. The arrogance of those in charge of the blind force made them believe that they are not in need for anyone to support or back them since they have much of the blind force.

Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh is Yemen's prominent poet and intellectual. He is the director of the Yemeni Center for Studies.
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