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The United States: September 11 and the Washington Standoff |
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Saturday, 12 May 2007 16:22 |
I must once again been very naïve. I thought that my last posting to this blog on the 3rd global war would be my last word on the subject, but this war is so serious and multifaceted it compelled me to come back today with this follow up. I am concentrating on America's involvement in it and for the following reasons: The United States is Al-Qaeda's most powerful opponent, defeating it will remove a huge obstacle in the road to realizing their dream. Also because of its US leader's sloppiness in managing their role in it, look at how they are conducting their presence in Iraq. Iraq is a very important theater in the current war, but the American's conduct of it has been full of terrible blunders and colossal mistakes. Apparently the American's don’t understand that loosing it is tantamount to loosing their country's prestige and position in world affairs as number one. The Americans have until very recently been living an illusion, they have always imagined that their vast continent and the two huge expanses of water which surround it would to the end of the world provide them with the safety and security they need in our harsh and unprincipled world. The Americans needed a big jolt to waken them to its realities, enter Osama bin Laden.
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Our World: The Third Global War |
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Sunday, 22 April 2007 20:01 |
Iraq is in trouble, a very serious mess, the general situation is deteriorating with no end in sight to the agony and suffering of its people. The bush administration is itself in an equally dire situation, with the unending troubles it is facing in its efforts to control the mess its occupation has created. Equally serious problems it facing at home with an extremely hostile Congress and a very vocal and active antiwar movement. How have we arrived at this quagmire? And how and when is it going to end? These questions have been haunting me for a very long time with their answers constantly defying me, because like many other scholars I have been dealing with our war as an isolated conflict between two third world countries the kind of thing we used to have during the days of the cold war. This situation is different, it is a very important part of a much larger conflict, a truly global one with theaters of operations in many countries, in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and in others. This is a very complex conflict, it is not a simple clash of civilizations because of some fault lines at the borders of competing civilizations, it has historical, cultural, religious and economic roots in its genesis. It has its origins in the major wars which were fought during the last hundred years, the second world war was followed by the US and Soviet Union confrontation which is often referred to as the cold war. A measure of its ambiguity and divisive nature is the fact that 6 years into it we do not even have a name for it, some call it the US-al-Qaeda war, others the US-Islamist war and many others call it the US-Jihadist war. The third global war is still raging with no end in sight; it is still very early to tell who is winning.
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Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Hanoudi Tragedy |
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Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:38 |
Four years after the launching of what was promised to be a new beginning for Iraq and a better future to its people after the murderous and devastating years under Saddam and his sickening regime things are no better at all. Things are actually worse now than during the worst years of Saddam, which is a great disappointment and a real tragedy. This is very sad and an extremely painful conclusion, because I have been in the beginning very enthusiastic and supportive of the American move. I must have been very naive to accept the promises of the Bush administration without a less than the necessary inquisition into the honesty and genuineness of those promises, but metamorphosing from the naive I was at that time to the misanthropist I am nowadays needed the frustrations, the tragedies and the pains and agonies we suffered as a nation and as individuals during the last four years to accomplish that metamorphosis. Four years ago when jubilant crowds with the help of American marines hauled down the big statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos square in the center of Baghdad it looked like that the promises of the Bush team prior to the war were going to come true, but the initial jubilation and the toppling of Saddam and the dismantling of his regime was followed by a guerrilla war and then almost a civil war, which left Iraq in a terrible mess.
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The Iraqi Quagmire: The Passport Dilemmas |
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Friday, 23 March 2007 20:01 |
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I tried to get an application for a new passport from the Iraqi embassy in Amman, but after the terrible treatment I received there I am going to think more than once before trying that ordeal again. I was with dozens of men and women whose ages varied between 12 and 85 were kept waiting for two hours in front of a very small metallic wall and then the door opened and everybody ran to the entrance. Three Jordanian policemen were heroically trying to control the stampede towards the door which followed, I with few people stayed close to the wall of the building and then those who were able to penetrate the new Berlin wall managed to get in. In addition people who were important got in and even passports of unidentified passports were escorted in to come out few minutes later smiling majestically at the condemned. Two hours into the nightmare I begged one nice Jordanian policeman to allow to get into the building to inform the officials inside of the people's dilemma, so I was escorted to a very important looking man whom I was told was the council who in a gesture reminiscent of Saddam, he asked me in a very infuriating way about the problem. Midway in my story he shouted at me saying I am very busy – finish your story. I said your time is supposed to be for me and others in trouble like after all you receive your salary from what we pay the government when he burst into me and shouting at his subordinates to kick ME outside which they did. |
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