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L-I: A VIEW FROM PAKISTAN...(WHAT THE WORLD REALLY THINKS)
A VIEW FROM PAKISTAN...
by Nisar Ahmad (posted 3-10-00)
INTRODUCTION
by Jared Israel
IF YOU ARE OLD, you may recall whether it was the Pogo cartoon strip that
coined the phrase, "We have met the enemy and they are us." Well, much of the
world now feels that way, but about the U.S., and not without cause.
* There was the totally unprovoked US bombing of a critically needed Sudanese
medicine factory in August, 1998, justified by open lies and open arrogance
of power. (see CREDIBLE DECEPTION at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/sudan.html ).
* There are the continuous threats against and bombing of Iraq (amazingly
justified by citing the danger Iraq poses to its neighbors, as if she were
doing the bombing).
* There is the assault on Yugoslavia including sponsorship of terrorist
forces, and all justified by fabricating false stories of genocide ( see
SPANISH EXPERTS SHOOT NATO IN ITS LOGIC at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/sp-comment.htm )
We could go on. The world is thinking: "They lie and then they bomb - and
then they lie again." . Mercifully the US media spares Americans any
knowledge of what the rest of the world is thinking - and saying. Check out
Mr. Ahmad's very angry article below.
A VIEW FROM PAKISTAN...
by Nisar Ahmad (posted 3-10-00)
Reprinted from The Frontier Post (Pakistan) March 04, 2000 SATURDAY ZIQA'AD
26, 1420
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The recently announced Russian nuclear doctrine provides confirmation of the
fact that the US and Russia are, at breakneck speed, headed towards a
collision course. This is so because of US muscles-flexing foreign policies
influenced by untutored zealots in its power structure.
The world faces a nuclear destruction if the US continue listening to these
eccentric elements advocating their crazy hypothesis about shaping of a new
world order exclusively to their advantage in the 21st century. It is
deplorable that US's preference and its readiness for violence against other
nations is based on prevailing assumptions among its strategists that if the
global peace course took hold and progressed, the US might lose the
singularity and distinction it has acquired with its mighty military machine
that has encircled the world.
The strong perception among its policy brokers is imperialistic in nature,
which interprets that military impotence could result in a gradual loss of US
vital global commercial markets. To these strategists, perpetual
international disorder and injustices are fundamental to the survival of
their otherwise unworkable economic and political systems. This sort of
approach is espoused actively by few but influential chauvinists and
warmongers in the US establishment who consider the existence of a viable and
active adversary much the same as the ex-USSR during the Cold War,
indispensable to their malicious schemes of controlling global sources of
wealth.
Russian nuclear doctrine is largely the outcome of attempts by these
dissenting elements in Washington who demand a permanent foreign brutal
threat in order to continue supplying burning fuel to the large war industry
that has over the years grown stronger and provides abundantly for few. Such
callous reliance on world violence and disorder has dashed hope for worldwide
peace and progress that grew so strong with the end of Cold War struggle.
Secretary Madeleine Albright neither felt belittled nor ashamed when last
month, after her prolonged meeting with Russia's acting President Putin in
Moscow, claimed that her country was seeking partnership with Russia, not
dominance. This unfounded claim had many journalists wonder if Albright was
somehow mixed up, mocking or, simply falsifying facts about US misconduct and
miscalculations in its relations with Moscow since the break-up of Soviet
Union a decade ago.
Following the US-led NATO's aggression in Yugoslavia last year, Russia has
been consistently accusing US government of working on a grand scheme towards
achieving its two offensive foreign policy objectives censurable for obvious
decline in its relationship with Russia.
First, the Russians see US determined in its endeavour to corner Russia by
undermining its position in the world.
And second, it perceives a western collusion underway in order to create
conditions where the US, as a lone superpower, retains effectively its
hegemonic dominance in global affairs.
Evaluating cautiously in the backdrop of current events, these charges don't
seem without substance. In recent years, the US has amply provided evidences
of its unending fighting instinct which it, no doubt, intends to sustain with
its new and large arms buildup that is currently in progress.
Evidently in the past decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the
subsequent end of the Cold War, US power brokers have become bewildered with
the mounting potentiality of global peace, a phenomenon that would undermine,
if it prevailed, the very existence of American form of capitalist and
democratic systems.
Our planet's future has now become more obscured under the shady manoeuvres
of these impelling forces that has the US government under siege and the
message for civilised and responsible nations is crystal clear: that they
must stand up and form an alliance to put a stop to the American lawlessness
in the world affairs.
As things stand at the moment, the past era of confrontation seems set to
find a place in world's future and it is not surprising that such a growing
concern in Russian political and military realm has now been translated in
its new nuclear doctrine announced early January. If the new doctrine is
intended to restore a sense of respect and dignity among many Russians and
its armed forces, it certainly brings hope for the rest of the world, which
anxiously awaits the formation of a multi-polar world order. Since the
break-up of the Soviet Union, most Russians despise their leaders' increasing
inclination to act as US henchmen in foreign affairs and perceive the
phenomenon as a chapter of great insult and humiliation that was being added
to their otherwise proud nationalist history.
The renewed pronouncement of nuclear weapons and their possible use in less
extreme circumstances is to send a clear message that the US would not be
allowed to dominate the world, downgrade Russia as a third-rate country and
play it around as it wishes. The new doctrine negates the one adapted just
two years ago which reflected Russian growing desire to form some sort of
partnership with the West that would have eventually lead to merge both camps
economically and militarily. Such strategy merely proved wishful thinking
when NATO continued its drive of expansion towards regions not considered
under its traditional sphere of influence.
This and the last year's US-led NATO's assault on Yugoslavia created
circumstances that necessitated the rebirth of Cold War mindset among Russian
leaders that US- NATO led countries are not willing to let go their old
mentality of conflict and their belligerent objective of world domination.
More gravely, the UN and the Security Council are being trampled
systematically to make western anarchy prevail. How insignificant US leaders
consider UN rank in world affairs is obvious from the Jan. 21 statement of
chairman of the US Senate's Foreign Relation Committee, Sen. Jesse Helm who
threatened to withdraw from the organisation if it did not facilitate
protection of US global interests. The statement communicates the repulsive
mentality of the top political cadre in US establishment that attach no value
to the economical and political aspirations of the rest of the world.
Clearly the US government wishes to replace UNO with NATO. Russia, China and
France are among many countries of the world that are seeking the
establishment of a multi-polar world order where the US does not assume the
role of a world cop. The new nuclear doctrine underscored the need for a
world that must live under a "multi-sided control of international process"
while blaming the US and its western allies for trying to use "military force
to decide major international issues by evading the international law." The
document directly pointed towards US-led West as the source of military
threat to Russian security and named China and India as Russia's allies and
strategic partners.
The Russians have made it clear that they will use nuclear weapons in their
efforts to repel attacks carried out with nuclear or conventional weapons
against their forces. In the previous such doctrine Russia had limited the
use of its nuclear weapons to contingencies where their national sovereignty
came under threat from foreign forces. With the introduction of the new
doctrine, Russians have in fact responded in tone to the confrontational and
aggressive NATO doctrine in place that emphasises the use of nuclear weapons
in case its forces are overwhelmed by Russian army using conventional
weapons. The rising partnership between Russia and China mirrors their views
about geopolitical compulsions and common security threats and has greater
significance as they both recognise the danger to world peace if the US
continue disdaining the legitimate rights of other nations and supremacy of
the UN. Russia has significantly increased it advanced weapons sale to China
that reflects both countries' increasing anxiety about US global intentions.
In December, leaders of both countries signed a communique, which dispensed a
deep-toned endorsement of each other's views on domestic and international
issues.
US Senate's rejection of CTBT and its plans to develop an antimissile system
to shield Japan, South Korea and Taiwan were denounced as a threat to peace
and stability in the South-East Asia region. The growing understanding
between the two was further invigorated by the Chinese support of Russia's
ongoing Chechnya operation what it called a Russian internal affair and
Russia's full support of Chinese bid to reclaim, forcefully or peacefully,
Taiwan. Both countries are assessing the American threat to the world peace
with grave concern. Just before quitting office, Yeltsin spoke bluntly of his
country's nuclear capability, reminding President Clinton in plain words:
"Clinton should not forget the world he is living in. It has never been the
case and it will never be the case that he could dictate how the whole world
should live, work and play. No and once again no."
With his new doctrine, Putin has delivered an appropriate warning to the
militarist and hotheads in US establishment against their international
lawlessness with threats and use of military power to subjugate and deny
justice to some nations while abetting criminal behaviour of others. Last
month, the whole world witnessed Israeli air force unleashing its brutal
firepower against Lebanese civilian targets, destroying public water and
power supply sources and inflicting indiscriminate human losses.
Clinton and Albright quickly called the attacks a justified response to the
killing of a few Israeli soldiers occupying part of Southern Lebanon. This is
a typical form of American fair play and civility. The peaceful and civilised
nations of the world will have to deal with this madness if the US and its
allies foresee no fear of retaliation by attacking weak nations. The US will
impose its decisions on the rest of the world if not restrained in time.
The Russo-Chinese military alliance could assertively determine the course of
events in the 21st century and frustrate US efforts to colonise the rest of
the world. Strong strategic alliances and outright declarations of using
nuclear weapons in self-defence will restrain the US and its other rowdy
allies from bullying the world. Russia's readiness in the past to use nuclear
weapons saved it from US attacks and its repeated announcements to use
nuclear weapons will provide sound deterrence to attacks against its
territory in the future. We must look at the US recent war-making history
that clearly depicts it as a power that derives gross and nauseating pleasure
>from promoting international violence and targeting small and weak nations.
***
Further Reading...
For a discussion of US strategy toward the former Soviet bloc, see Sean
Gervasi's "Why is NATO in Yugoslavia? at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/gervasi/why.htm
Regarding economic motives behind US military intervention, see Was Europe
the real target in the bombing of Serbia? at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/corridor.htm
For a look at some economic realities of the Brave New World Order in Kosovo,
see Chossudvosky's Opening up Kosovo to foreign Capital at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/opening.htm
The background of the Yugoslav troubles is discussed by T.W. Carr in German
and US Involvement in the Balkans at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/carr/carr.html
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