<< 1.And please do not tell me that the US intention are to free the Iraqis from Saddam. >>
1. To cut it short, I believe that US intentions are/were to free Iraq from a bloodthirsty tyrant who spilled more blood than any of the contemporary leaders post Hitler/ Mao era.
<< 2. Saddam was install by the west to rule Iraq.>>
2. Saddam was not installed by the west but by the Iraqi Baathists, he came to power after sidelining Hasan alBakr, he eliminated nearly the entire senior leadership of the party even his own relations, Adnan Khairullah was killed in a helicopter incident so did others who ever rose to offer any leadership threat. Most of the tyrants are result of total lack of respect for pluralism and freedom within nations of Islam. Assad or for that matter Mubarak or Gaddafi are all products of west because whenever any western leader wants to remove any of this blood thirsty tyrant the entire Islamic world makes sure to back the tyrant, in case of Reagan taking on Ghaddafi he overnight became the hero of Islam so did Saddam, irrespective of the millions of Islamic people that he killed during the Iraq Iran war and the iron clad measures that he adopted to curb dissidence. Taking responsibility of their own actions is something that Islamic nations collectively lack; every sin of their own has always been the responsibility of others. The shortest cut to escapism from political realism in ME is that all our ills are western responsibilities, like after Saddam ill planned invasion of Kuwait that was driven by his lust to steal 100 billion dollars of Kuwait future generation fund, every simpleton around town still believes that it was April Gillespie who encouraged Saddam the little kid to invade Kuwait. Listen man life is not that simple neither Mr. Saddam was a kid who will listen to US ambassador rather he should have been careful not to invite the wrath of others on his ill conceived take over of Kuwait.
<< 3.Democracy and freedom in ME will go against US interest. Example, if SA hold an election, Muslim extremist like OBL will be ruling SA not the pro yes sir Al Saud royals. It is all about OIL and the mighty DOLLAR. >>
3. Freedom is as integral a desire of Middle Eastern as of any western man. Freedom initially is very chaotic I agree, dictatorships look to run a tight ship, you could see that in Hitler’s Reich, Tito’s Yugoslavia, Stalin’s Russia or Mao’s China but the simmering undercurrents were ready to blow the lid off, the implosion that have recently happened in most of the aforementioned countries are signs of great changes that we all are witnessing, this is century of change and we seeing accelerated version of events as never before, all ex-dictatorships are moving towards right of expression and freedom from totalitarianisms. May be Iraq will chaotic as freedom takes hold but free society leads to a prosperous society and progressive society, I am very hopeful that Saudi Arabia should take example of Kuwait, it is the most freest of the littoral states in the Gulf but very stable as it as a constitutional monarchy although absolutist but infringed with limitations of a parliament. Qatar has shown the way how to let free media flourish, so I don’t believe that freedom and democracy in Arab societies will throw up OBL’s of the world, rather OBL has expedited his own demise by following the most radical strain of Islam. A democratic Saudi Arabia will be more like Kuwait and I can rest assure you that freedom in Saudi will lead to a far more stable society where muttawas will not be able to reign free and woman shall be given the right to drive. OBL will take over a medieval Saudi but a free Saudi will reject OBL like Kuwait’s have rejected OBL so does recent Iraqi election showed you what happened to the blank threats of Zarqawi.
If it was all about oil and dollar than why did Americans restored sovereign rule of Al-Sabah’s after they won Kuwait from crutches of Saddam, Kuwait has nearly 22 percent of known OPEC oil reserves has no army and the rulers had escaped the country when Saddam tanks rolled in, Americans could have declared it lost and found property and hold on to the oil, rather the sovereignty of Kuwait was restored in a day and every drop of oil after liberation was paid for by the US forces. Please come to real world and the real world is more honest and less conspiracy prone, it is for this that CC calls my straight rejoinders as thesis. ggg, |
