*Global Political Quagmire: Leaders Who Could Not Lead*
*By Mahboob A. Khawaja *
10 June, 2015
*Countercurrents.org*
“We should already know more than enough to be horrified by the state of
our American world. It should disturb us deeply that a government of, by,
and for the war-makers, intelligence operatives, bureaucrats, privatizing
mercenary corporations, surveillers, torturers, and assassins is thriving
in Washington. As for the people -- that’s us -- in these last years, we
largely weren’t there, even as the very idea of a government of, by, and
for us bit the dust, and our leaders felt increasingly unconstrained when
committing acts of shame in our name. So perhaps the last overlooked
anniversary of these years might be the 12th anniversary of American
cowardice. You can choose the exact date yourself; anytime this fall will
do. At that moment, Americans should feel free to celebrate a time when,
for our “safety,” and in a state of anger and paralyzing fear, we gave up
the democratic ghost.”…..“Among the many truths in that still-to-be-written
secret history of our American world would be this: we the people have no
idea just how, in these years, we’ve hurt ourselves.” (Tom Engelhardt, “The
12th Anniversary of American Cowardice What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You.”
TomDispatch.com: 3/28/2013).
*I*n a knowledge-based age of reason and accountability, global politics is
fast becoming a staged drama. Pretension and exploitation are the hallmarks
of the global political leadership. The UNO is already an irrelevant and
dysfunctional organization in world affairs. What led to the failure of the
international institutions and the emergence of World War I and World 2
appears to be inescapable reality not on screen but in the prevalent human
affairs. The liberal democracies have produced typical ‘right man syndrome’
in its worst shape to manage and control the minds of the people.
Stereotyping of electoral victories produce egoistic, inept and incompetent
leaders who are resourceful but misfit to serve the interests and
priorities of the masses. Most use money and media-build image and capacity
to win the elections but miserably fail to live upto the moral and
intellectual norms and genuine expectations of the common folks. Once in
power, the ego transforms into type of a cancer to commit unthinkable
crimes against the very people who voted for them. Elections are
presumptuous gimmick and do not bring any real political change at the
grassroots levels but to recycle the disposable ambitions of the few to
occupy political powerhouses. In an age of rising expectations, hopes are
dashed away for any futuristic developments to imagine a promising future
for the mankind to have peace, con-existence and normalcy across the globe.
Most NATO affiliated leaders are quick to blame President Putin and Russian
intervention in Eastern Ukraine but deny the facts that America and Britain
waged repeated aggressive wars against Iraq and Afghanistan. The decade
long occupation killed millions of innocent people and committed crimes
against humanity. None seem to discuss it in the Western news media. Those
sadistic leaders responsible for the crimes were not held accountable. The
current global politics is a game of political distraction, killings,
destruction of the human environment and continuing displacement and
massacre of innocent people in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and
other parts of the Arab world.
*Wars Negate Peace Except to Incapacitate the Mankind*
Cynicism at its best, war rhetoric is fast becoming number games for
leadership popularity. Most Western leaders view public as ignorant of the
facts of life. The same absurd culture that separated power from wisdom and
led to the cruelty of Two World Wars is overshadowing the prevalent
realities for political change. At the G7 meeting in Germany, President
Obama came out of the blue that he does not have a ‘complete strategy to
defeat ISIL.’ If the strategy was to incapacitate the Arab countries to
consider US-Israel synchronized agenda for the future of Palestine. A
future without resolution of the freedom of Palestine is certainly at work.
Did President Obama learn anything useful to honor his major global
commitments to the humanity? “Yes we can” remained a broken promise for the
large part of his official priorities. Advanced Western nations have not
produced any credible leadership role model for the future generations to
follow.
Unpredictable but paranoid and vengeful political leaders have
incapacitated the in-born faculties of American lifelines to be a morally
and intellectually crippled 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. America became an insane – a victim of
its own obsession with power and fearful of its future. Global mankind has
passion for peace, not wars. Those mindless politicians claiming to have
accomplished the mission in the War on Terrorism did so at the cost of
ruthlessness, killings of millions of fellow mankind in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Sherwood Ross (“US Sponsored Genocide against Iraq 1990-2012
killed 3.3 million including 750,000 children.” Global Research:
12/06/2012), recalls the statement of Professor Francis Boyle (Kuala Lumpur
War Crimes Tribunal) and many other investigative reports clearly blaming
the US led forces to have massacred more than three millions civilians in
Iraq. The US and British are responsible for much of Iraq’s planned
destruction, increased sectarian violence and dismantling of the political
governance. Dreadful are becoming as abnormal frequency of violent
killings, internal insecurity, drug-abuses and political mismanagement,
several thousands Americans killed in global bogus wars and likewise
wounded and crippled for life, 18-25 war veterans daily committing suicide.
One wonders, what went wrong to America? William Boardman (“A Country At
War With An Illusion.” Information Clearing House: 8/19/2013), spells out
how America is at war with itself: “We are waging war on terrorism even as
we embody terrorism. …No wonder we seem sometimes to be at war with
ourselves, and have been for most of the 21st century….No American Under 12
Has Lived In A Country At Peace….America’s Main Enemy Is Nameless,
Shapeless, “Associated Forces”… The American Enemies List Is Decided
Anonymously and Secretly.
*No Comments…No Judgment… But Rationality demands Dialogue and
Reconciliation for Global Peacemaking*
Do politicians having small wisdom and big mouth and no rational knowledge
can determine the future of mankind? How could the mankind be protected
from the sadistic mindset of the few warmongers? The Universe and all it
encompasses are the products of God-given command; and do not operate in
concert with man-made laws, constitutions, foreign policies, judgments,
hopes and desires. Light is One, and darkness are many. Life and the
Universe exist because it is ordained by the Creator of the Worlds. Be it a
reminder or an advice that human life is precious and we are accountable
and we must all try to pursue peace and harmony, not wickedness and
extermination of life and habitats from Earth. If history is relevant and
is seen as a source of learning and warning, undeniably all those
superpowers well equipped with weapons and animosity to destroy others or
all have met the same fate of self annihilation. It is beyond doubts that
when they challenged the sanctity of the Laws of God governing the Earth
and the living Universe, and invaded small and poor nations in farfetched
lands, they ultimately met their own end by natural causes such as
earthquakes, flooding, tornados, exploding lavas, sound blasts, lightning
and lot more. Are there any thinking people to take heed from the prevalent
facts of human history?
War is racketeering. Since the renewed sectarian warfare in Arab world,
leading American weapon manufacturers have increased 19% prices for weapon
sales. None of the combatant forces offer any plan for stopping the bloody
sectarian vindictiveness. If the coalition of the willing had working
intelligence, they should engage ISIL in a political dialogue to explore
peace and a durable future. Obviously, ISIL’s cold-blooded killings of few
foreign prisoners cannot be accepted as precepts of the Islamic behavior
and values of the Muslim world, but the group is gaining ground and after
Ramadi attracting large number of recruits across the Arab countries.
President Obama claimed diplomacy to deal with other nations. But nothing
is initiated out of the fixed strategy against ISIL or to deal with Russia
for a negotiated settlement of problems.. “It is Perfectly Reasonable to
Negotiate with Villains like ISIS So, Why Don’t We Do It to Save Some
Lives” The Independent: 9/28/2014), asks reputable international journalist
Robert Fisk. Obama says, No at the UN and adds, we do not negotiate with
Evil. The same message is echoed by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
The UN and its leadership are in desperate need of a navigational change to
pursue dialogue and reconciliation for peacemaking with all the belligerent
parties. To any impartial observer evil is not one-sided. Political
temptations and compulsion can enforce evil’s supremacy but it can never
acquire victory as a permanent factor. No wonder, why America is using the
logic of power and not the power of logic to respond to a critical global
humanitarian crisis.
The informed global community wishes to see dialogue, reconciliation and
opportunities for peaceful settlement of conflicts. Have the Two World Wars
resolved any problems facing the humanity? What is the cure to raging
indifference and cruelty to the interests of 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. Is the 21st century political genius more
redundant, backward and unable to speak against the political drudgery and
wickedness of the few warlords to destroy the humanity? Perhaps, Robert
Burns - the poet (“Man’s inhumanity to Man”, from his poem Man was made to
Mourn: A Dirge, 1785), knew better and had unraveling and passionate moral
and intellectual understanding of the human nature and interests of the
global mankind to clarify:
'Many and sharp the num'rous ills
Inwoven with our frame!
More pointed still we make ourselves
Regret, remorse, and shame!
And Man, whose heav'n-erected face
The smiles of love adorn, -
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
*(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, Germany, May 2012)*
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Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja
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