The time is of essence but sounds of the crumbling of the palaces of this regime are quite audible.
<I expect that this will take weeks to months to sort itself out and perhaps years before the dust settles. >
Just remember that no one is talking about media negativity after 21 days of Afghan campaign just few days before Mazar Sharif fell. The same very pundits were calling Afghan intervention as a quagmire. Now days that quagmire is sleeping like a baby. Northern Alliance and Warlords and Karzai have helped build some sort of order in Kabul and Afghanistan.60% of Afghan refuges population living in Islamabad refugees has left since freedom of Afghanistan.
The problem with Arab and to some extent Islamic street at large is that their leadership and populace love their brethren but to the extent of lip service only, most of them want their cake and eat it too. If the pedigree of these demonstrators is ascertained you would find many of them tech professionals their livelihood one way or the other dependent upon an obscure US connection. Every crisis has seen expression of universal solidarity but absolute lack of action on part of the governments and populace. From Bosnia to Afghan crisis the real aid came from ‘infidels’ as Muslim streets cried hoarse but rarely ever acted. On the streets of Arab lands the most radicals of the anti-imperialists are those who have benefited from US the most. It is rage of impotence and it is rage of under achievement. I take a view that we as nations have to correct within, we need to fix our systems of governance, we need some pluralism and we need some reformation and open ended discussions to move forward. The reasons we are invaded is our failures to condemn the wrong ones amidst us. Perpetual struggle is warrant to death; the Arab leadership has made the Arab world an escape goat. The terror infested regimes sit on top of a pyramid that encourages mass movement only when for their own survival is at stake.
Good governance is reflected through betterment of the quality of life, on that count millions can be sacrificed for the sake of vain glory and vain pride by any regime in hte Arab land. Where were these demonstrators when Saddam was killing thousands through mustard gas in Halbja? Or where were these demonstrators when Iran children hospital was hit by an Scud in Shiraz killing 600 children, a Muslim can play havoc with a Muslim life without impunity, this is the logic. No one should dare stop the dance of death is the call of these disgraceful demonstrators. It shocks me to see that collective conscience of an entire nation can be lifeless like this. For me tyrants have no reason to live, holocausts in Muslim lands by the Muslim tyrants is as detestable as an invasion by a foreign power, if that invasion after a delay of 25 years free my people from tyranny than let me be the biggest traitor, I wil rather accept mutilation than to compromise on not being able to say these things.. This is the best self honor in my opinion, to make an opinion that is not popular!!
I have my fears that many of the civilian casualties in souks are state orchestrated; the life of a civilian in Iraq has no meaning it is for this that for demonstrators Saddam matters whereas every Iraqi is a disposable item, a legitimate collateral damage. I will come back to that concept of strong man embedded in the minds of the Arab Street, someone who deifies without any regard of the welfare of its own people. Even, if every person on Arab Street condones inhuman treatment and misery of Iraqis as internal matter of Iraq. International law governing human dignity and respect demands that such display of human indifference should be ignored and replied with equivalent force.
The Arab street would never ever solicit the reasons why Iraqi innocent children should have no shoes or are in tatters, the misery of Basra is eye popping, the more I see it the more my believe that this tyrant should go. However, Arab Street is ready to overlook the deepest of human right crimes carried out by their own brother against their own next of kin as far as the brother is seeing fighting with what is erroneously known as enemies of Islam, the biggest enemy of Islam is the enemy within in shape of draconian rulers like Saddam. Iraqis have 53 billion $’s frozen in food for oil programme, they should not be living in such a wretched conditions at the first place; they should not be in a state of war for 25 years. I can see what is happening under the surface within populace of Basra, they are being held hostage against their will, a humane war has its limitations and with hands tied in the back as civilian casualties is the deriving factor in this campaign, the desert rats wait for the fall of Basra, few thousand hard core militia hold 1.2 m hostage. Instead of condemning the militia Al Jazeera plays to the galleries it sings praises of the militia as people representing hope, serpents are presented as angles.
The anger of people under shackles cannot be under estimated, this will implode, it is nice to demonstrate for brethren without sharing their pain but people on receiving ends do not really share this view of the Arab street at large, it was due to this Kabul was deserted by Talebin and even Kandhar had fallen without that door to door fight that many expected. I see similar kind of developments, the TV pundits are ignoring the fact that abilities of the regime are being reduced every day, Median divisions has been cut to size by 40%, in these circumstances Basra and Nasrieh will definitely fall, it is matter of time, in hostage situations where millions are being held by thousands we cannot break the china. The time is on the side of Allied forces, the implosion will happens military leader who is corrupt to the core and heads a monstrous regime has ever displayed gallantry, the bunch of thugs that we all are convinced are freedom fighter will turn out to be the hardest core members of the Saddam regime, Iraq has already fallen without those disasters that everyone was predicting, remember 500,000 deaths, oil wells nearly 1750 of them burning all across Rumailah, Israel being attacked by Scuds and was new Middle east conflict in offing, today we sit outside Baghdad waiting for the enemies of man to fall, they will fall have no doubt about it and critics will be proven wrong like they have been in case of Belgrade and Kabul. The time is of essence but sounds of the crumbling of the palaces of this regime are quite audible. Good night ... bye |
