How To Stop Bogus Wars And Articulate Global Peacemaking?
By Mahboob A. Khawaja
Countercurrents.org
There's no question that this "war" will continue indefinitely. There is no question that US actions are the cause of that, the gasoline that fuels the fire. The only question - and it's becoming less of a question for me all the time - is whether this endless war is the intended result of US actions or just an unwanted miscalculation. Why would anyone in the
The Continuing War Agenda is Meant to Destroy the Arab-Islamic world
Islamophobia is on the rise. Few reactionary instances of individual madness are used by the Western strategists to blame Muslims and Islam as the focal point of their perpetuated belligerency. The ongoing wars in
Mankind strives for peace, not for wars and hatred. The warmongers are using media as weapon to provoke reactionary animosities and impose the scheme of catastrophic war agenda. It is incumbent upon the rational thinkers, scholars and intellectuals of the 21st century to highlight the pertinent facts of human affairs and offer critical analysis of complex problems. American war strategy is aimed at large scale deaths and destructions of the entire Arab region enabling American corporations to attain direct control over the oil reserves and its exports and governance of the region. Another vital aim of the strategy is to camouflage the freedom of
Wars are Planned, Peacemaking is Not
Those who plan and wage wars are not innocent belligerent or without knowledge. They know well what they are engaged in and its consequences. Those who go to farfetched lands to kill the innocent people, divide and massacre men, women and children, fully understand what they are doing. Perhaps, common people are misled by the warmongers enabling them to sustain their war agendas under false political perceptions and imagery as is the case in the
“…war is not accessible through the understanding, rationally, intellectually, by watching a film or by reading a book. To "know" war, you have to experience it, live it, feel it in your gut the anxiety, fear, frustration, boredom, hopelessness, despair, anger, rage, etc. In truth, warriors exist in a world totally incomprehensible to those who have never had the misfortune of experiencing the horrors of the battlefield.”
To revert the misfortunes of the common folks, the UNO or any other global organization is not actively pursuing or leading remedial actions for peacemaking. Diplomacy is ineffective tool and chaos and political disintegration are the preferred choices to maintain the status-quo. Arab leaders live in a conflicting time zone without any rational understanding of time and history.
How to Safeguard the Humanity from the Scourge of Wars?
Inadvertent aerial bombings and sectarian rifts causing daily bloodbaths do not appear to change the warmongers. Unpredictable but paranoid and vengeful political monsters have incapacitated the in-born faculties of American lifelines to be a morally and intellectually crippled and more of a redundant nation in global affairs. This was not accidental but a planned scheme of things although unknown in its short-long terms consequences over its ability to cope with the change phenomenon for a sustainable future.
If
At the on-going US-European current military gatherings, war is a ready made magic pill to the entire ill conceived paradigm. But Ross Caputi (“Unthinkable Thoughts in the Debate About ISIS in Iraq.” Common Dreams: 6/15/2014) is a war veteran of the US Iraqi occupation and produced the documentary film Fear Not the Path of Truth, and an anti war activist, points out that: “entirely absent is the perspective of Iraqis and the issues that are important to them: accountability, independence, and resistance. Moreover, the real complexities of this issue have been lost in a number of the Western media's favorite binaries: terrorism vs. counterterrorism, good vs. evil, and insurgency vs. stability…..It was noted in the New York Times that ISIS had collaborated with several local militias in Mosul,…. that ISIS is just one faction in a larger popular rebellion against the government.” American masses do not favor the bombing of
It's important to understand that the current crisis in
Arab Leaders to Develop Capacity for Unity, Rethinking and Peacemaking
Arab rulers are constantly viewed as the new “yes men” of the 21st century. Their supreme interest rests in protecting the authoritarianism and continued military collaboration with the Master- The
The political need is urgent for reconciliation and rethinking of the Arab role and responsibilities in making a negotiated peaceful conflict resolution. Unless the Arab leaders focus on rebuilding their inward moral and intellectual capacity for political change and to embrace the new educated and intelligent generation to assume political leadership, the Arab world is heading towards ultimate annihilation. The active agenda should be to change the confrontational direction and facilitate societal peace, and stop the wars and street bloodbaths. The Islamic scholars, Muslim academia in peace and conflict management and the Arab political activists should be encouraged to envisage change and to provide comprehensive new ideas for crisis management and conflict resolution. Arab leaders are operating from a position of extreme weakness, their strength lies in receiving the collective inputs and advisory from the educated classes. This priority must be felt, instinctively recognized and intellectually realized to stop the daily political bloodsheds outpouring across the Arab Middle East. People are fast becoming statistic of the causalities, but palaces are protected by foreign mercenaries. The real issues are subsided and superficial are rekindled to deceive the masses.
Do the American or the Arab leaders know what is the end-game? Aftermath of the American-led bombing campaign, what kind of political landscape and geography be in-waiting for the Arab Middle East? Time is critical for self-reflection to both the US and the Arab coalition to find peaceful negotiated means of conflict management. The US leaders and the neo-colonial Arab monarchs defy logic and reason. The Arab coalition leaders breathe oxygen in a complete disconnect to the interests of the Arab masses. The bombing campaign could strengthen ISIL and other Iranian sponsored militia groups in their reactionary pursuits to gain public legitimacy. They are fighting against themselves and against all. What is the cure to raging indifference and cruelty to the interests of the people of Iraq , United States , Syria and Europe and for that matter to the whole of the mankind? The 21st century new-age complex political, economic, social and strategic challenges and the encompassing opportunities warrant new thinking, new leaders and new visions for change, conflict management and participatory peaceful future-making. But change and conflict resolution and new visions will not grow out of the obsolete, redundant and failed authoritarianism of the few insane and egoistic leaders. The contemporary warmongers have no clue of peaceful co-existence in a God-given splendid and living Universe.
One wonders, if there is a cure to a cruel mindset? But absolute political power cannot be justified as simple favorable perversion to torture, kill the innocent mankind and destroy the universal harmony and natural habitats on Earth. Ross Caputi (“Unthinkable Thoughts in the Debate About ISIS in Iraq.” Common Dreams: 6/15/2014) offers a rational foresight to the US-European sponsored belligerency and re-enacting of the bogus wars in the Arab Middle East:
“These fractured communities within
(Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in global security, peace and conflict resolution with keen interests in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications including the latest: Global Peace and Conflict Management: Man and Humanity in Search of New Thinking. Lambert Academic Publishing
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