Wisdom and reason vs. bombs and breadcrumbs [Archives:2003/626/Opinion]

Hassan Al-Haifi
While reflecting on all the mess that the Moslem World, in general and the Arab World, in particular are in these days, it goes without saying that the political backwardness of the region leaves a lot to be desired. It is this backwardness that has been the cause of all our past and present demise, and for God Al-Mighty just looking the other way, when it comes to considering our plight. Unfortunately, in the wake of the recent meetings of the extraordinary Ordinary (no one is sure what it is!) Summit Conference of the Arab League and the Emergency Session of the Moslem World Conference, it seems that the leadership of this once great nation has yet to wake up to the eminent threat that faces the Moslem World in general and the Arab World in particular. The leaders were there all showing that they have not even gotten beyond the age of puberty, as they sat there wrangling and fighting, without realizing, the dangerous menace that has taken over the America leadership. America is going to come into the region to unleash its vengeance. Mind you, we are not talking about just Iraq, for Iraq is just the launching ground for full domination of the region to make “sure that another 9/11 never arises”. That is exactly what Mr. George W. Bush seemed to imply in his news conference Thursday, in which he revealed a new brand of American leadership that, frankly speaking, has never been brought to the surface before. Mr. Bush shoved aside all international opinion and all sense of reason, insisting that his decision is clearly a personal one that does not rest on any common sense or logical reasoning.
Yes, Iraq is the beginning of a program to punish the whole region it seems for 9/11 and Mr. George Bush has made it clear during his news conference last Thursday Evening that 9/11 is the driving mechanism for all his forthcoming decisions, even if the whole world becomes aflame. Ask him about North Korea, or the continuous bloodshed in Palestine unleashed by his Zionist pals. On the latter, he will tell you that his friend Sharon is doing all right in Mr. Bush's view, and all he has is praise and congratulations for his friend Ariel Sharon for every Palestinian lying dead. On the former, he will tell you that we do not have time now for Korean A. bombs as there are just too many Moslems out there in this world and we have to do all we can to protect ourselves against them with advance, preventive punitive action, even before any crime is done. He also talked about protecting America's friends in the area, which so far for Mr. Bush has only meant Ariel Sharon and his band of Zionist thugs in the area, who are having the time of their life with a White House license to kill, maim and destroy the Palestinian people and do away with their existence altogether.
Notwithstanding what the allies and conscientious friends of the United States have suggested to the American President, Mr. Bush continues on the unusually unfavorable arrogant stand he has taken against all efforts to bring reason and common sense back into American foreign policy. We are not sure how much destruction and killings Mr. Bush will aspire for, before he is satisfied that revenge has been consummated for “9/11”. However it is for certain that the road Mr. Bush has been goaded to by his many Zionist friends is neither healthy for the Untied States or the rest of the world, or even the relatives of the victims of 9/11 themselves, who have also taken to the streets to protest the arrogant course which Mr. Bush has decided to trek on in their name! Time and again, we have pointed out that the perpetrators of 9/11 are as distant from Islam as anyone can get and we testify more than anyone else that they have done a great disservice to Islam, for which neither their Moslem brothers or God Al-Mighty Himself will ever forgive them. But this summary punishment which Mr. Bush is conjuring up is surely not in keeping with civilized rational thinking. Surely Mr. Bush would be wiser to display a greater degree of responsible world leadership than to hedge his bets for the next Presidential Elections playing on the kind of sentiments that one thought have disappeared from the American psyche since the cultural reawakening that America witnessed in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Moreover, to add more humiliation to this war mongering, Mr. Bush went on to reveal that after he has finished eliminating God only knows how many thousands of Iraqis and possibly people of other areas, he has 55,000 tons of grain ready to go to feed, whoever survives his process of annihilation. Mr. Bush would be wise to listen to America's French allies, who must be at least remembered for the backing that they gave the founding fathers of the United States. After all without such backing, America might still today be taking orders from London, rather than the other way around. 9/11 should never be an excuse for killing all sense of idealism and all hopes for a peaceful and prosperous world and for eliminating the prevalence of wisdom and reason.
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