Will
U.S. Be Final Victim Of Its
Global Dance Macabre?
By Gul Jammas Hussain
24 August, 2007
Tehran
Times
With
a huge economic, democratic, and moral deficit since World War II and
a tainted conscience, ironically the United States may lose its superpower
status while trying to pull off another 'democracy promoting' project.
Under the influence of members
of the Zionist lobby like AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee),
should the U.S. make the mistake of attacking another country in the
name of its 'war on terror', it would be making a suicidal mistake.
U.S. officials are being
seduced into adopting the same misguided policies that caused the downfall
of the empires of lore.
Using the UN Security Council
as a handmaid, the United States has flouted the Nuremburg Principles,
showed shameless disdain for the Kyoto Protocol, and made a mockery
of the UN Charter to implement its interventionist policy. Its brazen
realpolitik contrasts with its own Declaration of Independence, which
calls for a "decent respect to the opinions of mankind."
Since the end of the Cold
War, its megalomania, coupled with paranoia about being destroyed, has
thrown the world puppeteers into desperation.
The United States' dance
macabre on our planet since World War II has been part of its plan to
establish itself as the global hegemon, with total disregard for the
dire consequences for the oppressed masses.
For six decades, it has been
sniffing around to see if any country is showing any teeth. Literary
critic Bruce Franklin described the process, saying: "We are just
about to be destroyed by evil monsters, when at the last minute we are
miraculously saved by a superhero or super weaponry. Furthermore, rather
typically, the evil monsters are those we are crushing under foot: Indians,
Blacks, and Chinese."
Therefore, the United States'
'promotion of democracy' may well be taken as a euphemism for "Exterminate
all brutes" -- the postscript of Kurtz's seventeen-page report
"The Suppression of Savage Customs" in Joseph Conrad's Heart
of Darkness.
The U.S. plunged into the
Vietnam War, supposedly to help the locals ward off the Red Menace.
Apart from costing the United States the loss of 58,209 lives and $584
billion (in current dollars) as war expenses, the Vietnam War resulted
in the lowest ever morale of U.S. soldiers, who began refusing to fight
because they felt they had no cause or moral justification
Following the collapse of
the Soviet Union, the Green Peril was introduced as the new bogeyman,
threatening not only the United States but the entire Western world.
After 9/11, the Al-Qaeda
phantom gave the U.S. an excuse to bomb the rubble of one of the poorest
countries on the face of the earth and occupy it.
The next villain was Saddam
Hussein, who had been a longtime ally of the United States.
Yet the specter of WMDs that
was used to topple Iraq's Baathist regime pales into insignificance
in comparison with the devastation wrought by the atomic bombs used
to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Since the U.S. invasion of
Iraq, two million people have fled, and more than two million are internally
displaced. The U.S. military's daily slaughter of civilians in Iraq
and the dark forces that arrived with the foreign occupation have brought
the country to the brink of catastrophe.
U.S. forces will definitely
leave Iraq one day, but the contamination caused by the use of depleted
uranium munitions will stay for 4.5 billion years.
After over four years, the
cost of the Iraq war has reached nearly $500 billion. The ultimate figure
could reach $1.2 trillion or more.
In total, the Bush administration's
twin occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq and its so-called 'war on terror'
will have cost at least $690 billion by the end of next year.
While wars are crippling
the U.S. economy and its combat forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, China
is fast emerging as a multidimensional superpower. The United States'
annual trade deficit with China is an incredible $233 billion while
its global current-account deficits reached $763.6 billion in late 2006.
With a stunning 11.9% economic
growth rate and $180 billion global current-account surplus, China will
surely be the biggest challenger to the so-called sole superpower.
In addition, under the dynamic
leadership of Vladimir Putin, Russia's star is rising economically and
militarily. Putin's commissioning new ICBMs specifically designed to
evade a U.S. missile defense shield and ordering the Russian air force
to resume the Cold War practice of long-range flights by strategic bombers
speak volumes about Russian designs for the future.
And the joint Sino-Russian
military maneuver in the Urals Mountains watched by Putin and his Chinese
counterpart Hu Jintao is a sign of a sea change.
After the recent Shanghai
Cooperation Organization summit, the leaders of the SCO countries warned
the U.S. to stay away from the energy-rich and strategic region.
So, will the United States
be able to maintain its superpower status?
Most probably not, unless
it works through partnerships and collaborations with the comity of
nations, not through wars, brinksmanship, and threats.
The road taken by the U.S.
security team will determine whether the United States temporarily avoids
the fate of previous empires or is tossed into the dustbin of history,
the victim of its own devious machinations.
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