“Diplomacy”,
The Smokescreen
For Savagery
By Ghali Hassan
04 May, 2006
Countercurrents.org
Open
any Western newspaper and you are struck by the abundant use of the
word “diplomacy”. It is the second most used word after
“democracy”. However, careful analysis shows that U.S. version
of diplomacy has become the favourite smokescreen of U.S. war of aggression.
Iraq and Iran provide the best cases.
In relation to Iran, the
Bush Administration alleged that it is using “diplomacy”
to convince Iran to give up her rights to nuclear technology. President
Bush frequently says that “we are working with European allies”
to use diplomacy to avert a nuclear impasse with Iran. U.S. Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice said that a “diplomatic solution”
will be found to the Iranian nuclear crisis. The reality is the opposite.
By accusing Iran of intending to manufacture nuclear weapons, the U.S.
and its European vassals are using the so-called “diplomacy”
to coerce as many nations as possible to report Iran to the UN Security
Council and pave the way for sanctions and most likely war of aggression
against Iran.
The U.S. version of diplomacy
is accompanied by a vicious propaganda campaign to demonise and portray
the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad in a very unfavourable way.
Western mainstream media, led by the Zionist New York Times, the BBC
and the Washington-based neo-fascist Zionist organisation, Middle East
Media Research Institute (MEMRI), have fabricated allegations against
President Ahmedinejad. They alleged that President Ahmedinejad denied
the Jewish holocaust took place and threatened to “wipe Israel
off the map”. Of course, it was a fabricated lie and President
Ahmedinejad did not say anything like this. In fact, none of President
Ahmedinejad’ speeches (in Farsi) contain anything close to what
has been magnified.
However, without any proof,
Western leaders, led by Bush and Blair, Western journalists and the
intellectual elites were quick to take advantage of the lie and unashamedly
use it to justify their attacks on the Iranian President. The cliché
of “anti-Semitism” provided the perfect bullying tool not
only for Israeli Zionists but also for those who follow in their footsteps.
(See Fikentscher & Neumann). President Ahmedinejad is now threatened
with assassination by Israeli-sponsored state terrorism. The threat
against a democratically elected head of state passed without condemnation
in Western capitals.
Furthermore, President Ahmedinejad
was democratically elected and contrary to Bush and Blair allegations,
Ahmedinejad is not a Western-imposed “tyrant” or a “dictator”.
By comparison with the U.S. presidential elections in which Bush was
appointed president by the Supreme Court, the elections in Iran were
far more superior to those of the U.S. In addition, Iran had a democracy
from 1951-1953 before the U.S.-staged a coup d’etat against Prime
Minister Muhammad Mossadeq and imposed the vicious dictatorship of the
Shah on Iran. The U.S. version of “democracy” is a colonial
dictatorship masked with fraudulent elections.
On its part, Iran tried very
hard to discuss all issues diplomatically, however the U.S. and its
vassals and they continue with the language of bullying. While accusing
Iran of aspiring to produce nuclear weapons, the U.S. turns blind eye
to Israel’s violence against the Palestinian people, Israeli threats
in the region and to Israeli’s huge arsenal of nuclear weapons.
Other countries such as Australia, Brazil and Japan, all have advanced
nuclear programs ready to produce nuclear weapons within short notice.
It seems, the U.S. has become obsessed with Muslim’s independent
development, and prefers to keep Muslim nations under its imperialist
thumb.
The Iran nuclear issue is
nothing more and nothing less than a pretext used by the U.S. against
Iran. The current U.S.-engineered crisis is reminiscent of the fabricated
pretext of Weapons of Mass Destructions (WMDs) that the U.S. used to
instigate a war of aggression against Iraq. Iran is signatory to the
Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has the rights to acquire nuclear
technology for peaceful use. Indeed, the NPT encourages other nations
to assist Iran in its quest for nuclear technology. However, this doesn’t
stop the U.S. from accusing Iran of “aspiring” to possess
WMDs and interfering in Iran’s domestic affairs; instead, the
U.S. rejects diplomacy and continues to beat the drums of war. The alleged
threat posed by Iran is a falsehood. An attack on Iran would be an unprovoked
act of aggression in violations of international laws.
Throughout the U.S. history
of imperialism, the U.S. has always concentrated its war propaganda
on one individual in the target nation. For example Presidents Fidel
Castro, Saddam Hussein and Hugo Chávez are made the epitomes
of hatred. They are demonised to the highest point in order to make
the American people feel obliged to support war against the target nation.
The U.S. creates an illusion that the native population are suffering
and helpless, and they need “our” help. As American author
Stephen Kinzer writes; “Americans love to have a demon, a certain
person who is the symbol of all the evil and tyranny in the regime that
we want to attack”. For example, Saddam has become synonymous
with evil and provided justification to commit greater evil against
the people of Iraq. The U.S. Administration writes Kinzer, “play[s]
on the American compassion to achieve support for interventions”
and commits war crimes against the Iraqi people.
In 1991, the U.S. rejected
every peaceful proposal to resolve the Kuwait-Iraq crisis. The U.S.
flatly rejected all proposals advanced by Yugoslavia, the USSR, Saudi
Arabia, Algeria, France, Jordan and Iraq. Instead, the U.S. used the
diplomacy of coercion to bribe those who voted for the war and punished
those nations who insisted on diplomacy. At the end, Kuwait was just
a pretext for premeditated mass murder and gross war crimes against
the Iraqi people. The war followed by 13-years-long criminal sanctions
that needlessly killed more than 1.6 million Iraqi civilians, a third
of them were children under the age of five years old.
For more than 13 years, the
U.S. rejected all diplomatic solutions to end its war on the Iraqi people.
Annoyed by the severity of the sanctions, France and Russia introduced
a peaceful resolution to end the sanctions against Iraq in return for
continued Iraq’s cooperation regarding WMDs, but the resolution
was vetoed by the U.S. In March 2003 and after outright rejections of
all diplomatic solutions, the U.S. illegally invaded Iraq on the pretext
– non-existence – of WMDs. Since then, U.S. forces and mercenaries
have indiscriminately killed – in cold blood – hundreds
of thousands of innocent Iraqi men women and children. In addition to
the deliberate and planned destruction of Iraq as a functioning state,
the U.S. is turning Iraq into purely sectarian state and encouraging
the erosion of Iraqi national identity that prevailed throughout Iraq’s
history.
Furthermore, the U.S. continues
to occupy Iraq against the wishes of the majority of the Iraqi people.
The U.S. is also continues to impose a victor (American) culture on
the Iraqi people. In addition, the U.S. is denying Iraqis their democratic
rights by imposing (by force) a puppet regime or a façade –
consists of a collection of thugs and criminals – programmed to
serve U.S. corporate interests.
Like the U.S. version of
“democracy”, the U.S. version of “diplomacy”,
has become the favourite smokescreen for U.S. foreign policy. There
can be no doubt that democracy is the perfect alibi for state repressive
powers. It is used to serve U.S. corporate interests. The U.S. version
of “democracy” in Iraq meant to ignite war and bloodshed.
Iran must be encouraged to reject U.S. diktats and pursue her own development
for the benefit of the Iranian people.
While the U.S. and its European
vassals pretend to solve the Iranian nuclear crisis through “diplomacy”,
they are embarking on a path that leads only to a war of aggression
against Iran. Resistance to U.S. imperialism through peaceful struggle
is the only way to stop U.S. aggression and violence.
Ghali Hassan
lives in Perth, Western Australia.