American threat to human race
Masud Akhtar Shaikh
The writer is a retired Colonel and freelance columnist
masudshaikh@hotmail.com
Beginning with the last stages of the Second World War, American leaders have been following a policy directed towards winning the United States the unique distinction of becoming the world's only country with the maximum number of human killings to its credit. This is why for decades they have been ruthlessly spending billions of dollars from the taxpayers' hard-earned money on the development of various weapons of mass destruction. Simultaneously, they remain in search of countries that could serve as the testing grounds for the weapons so developed.
The first deadliest weapon developed by America in the last century was the atom bomb which it dropped in 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two unfortunate cities of Japan that were literally obliterated from the face of this earth, along with millions of their inhabitants. Those who were killed were all innocent persons - men, women, and children, young and old alike. Every year when the people of the world hold solemn memorial services to commemorate the unprecedented mass annihilation of their fellow human beings as a result of American action, the hatred they have been secretly nourishing in their hearts against the American leaders gets rekindled. Mankind shall never forget, nor forgive, the perpetrators of that calamity.
Although that single catastrophe was good enough for America to win the distinction that its leaders have been in pursuit of, their thirst for human blood remained unquenched. They continued employing their scientists to develop weapons of mass destruction that were far deadlier than the bomb that played havoc with the lives of the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the list of deadlier weapons developed by America kept growing, the leaders had to explore new killing grounds where these weapons could be put to test so as to determine their practical capability to kill. Every time they chose a country for this purpose, the American leaders did their utmost to invent some seemingly convincing excuse so as to throw dust into the eyes of the world, as well as the American people, thereby concealing the real aim of their venture. For the next few decades, the bogey of communism and the threat the Soviet Union and communist China posed to the so-called free world became a handy excuse for picking up new grounds for the American weapons.
This is how Korea and Vietnam were selected as targets for satiating the American leaders' thirst for human blood. Over a period of many long years, thousands upon thousands of human beings were killed in these two wars. The casualties included a long list of young American soldiers as well. These poor souls were also sacrificed blatantly at the altar of American leaders' nefarious ambitions. The wars in Korea and Vietnam further deepened the roots of anti-American hatred, particularly in the Third World countries. Even within the United States, a sizeable population became bitterly critical of the leaders who had been responsible for the killing of a large number of American soldiers in wars fought without a worthwhile cause, in countries located at the other end of the globe.
The demise of the Soviet Union and a pronounced shift in China from the rigid Maoist philosophy to a free economy deprived the US leaders of their pet excuse for waging war against small countries. In spite of that, they continued spending huge amounts on the development of new weapons of mass destruction. In the meantime, all the US intelligence agencies and official think tanks were assigned the task of concocting a new, reasonably convincing excuse that could be used by the rulers to continue targeting weak nations to satisfy the demands of the pernicious mania of American rulers. Come 9/11, and therein the US intelligence agencies found a God-sent opportunity that could be used to equip their masters with a convincing pretext for this purpose.
Connecting the tragedy of 9/11 with terrorism sponsored by the Islamic fundamentalists and making full use of the emotional hype of the American public in the aftermath of the events of that inauspicious day, George Bush and his bloodthirsty team decided to launch a worldwide war against terror. This time around, they were wise enough to pick up countries whose subjugation could simultaneously serve the national interests of the United States. The selected countries were designated in advance as the Axis of Evil and included Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Using the familiar carrot and stick policy, the US president managed to rope in a number of other countries also to support his planned international war against terrorism. Thenceforth, America felt free to march in and conquer any of the selected countries whenever some actual or stage-managed incident of terror took place in any of the designated target countries. In the process they could kill any number of combatants or innocent civilians without any qualms of conscience.
The first country that invited the ire of George Bush and his garrulous team was Afghanistan. The Taliban government of that country was accused of providing a safe haven to Osama bin Laden and his terrorist setup that the US government had conveniently linked with the happenings of 9/11. Using uninterrupted, concentrated barrages from highly sophisticated military arsenal, the US armed forces in conjunction with the British troops destroyed almost the whole of Afghanistan in a matter of days. In the process, they mercilessly killed thousands of ill-equipped Taliban fighters in addition to innumerable unarmed Afghan civilians. The trigger-happy American soldiers particularly enjoyed peripheral killings, a term officially used by official American sources to cover up "erroneous firing" on civilian habitations, marriage parties, and funeral processions. By the time the US military operations in Afghanistan came to an end, the cumulative killing score of American rulers had had a tremendous boost. But so had the anti-American hatred in the world. While gloating over their quick military success in Afghanistan, the American rulers paid no heed to the steep rise in anti-American feelings, particularly in most of the Islamic countries.
Iraq was the next country on the American agenda. It was initially accused of accumulating huge stocks of unauthorised weapons of mass destruction that could allegedly be launched against America at a very short notice. However, when this accusation could not be substantiated, George Bush posed himself as the liberator of the Iraqi people whom he vowed to free from the clutches of Saddam Hussein, the latter having been labelled a ruthlessly cruel dictator. The Saddam government was also accused of having links with the events of 9/11. Like Afghanistan, Iraq was also destroyed within a few days, thanks to the sophisticated American weaponry. For their so-called liberation, the Iraqis had to pay a huge price in terms of human casualties.
By now, the pile of human heads that the Americans have been collecting as a proud trophy of unending wars in different areas of the world has grown into a massive mountain. Alas, the homicide mania of the US leaders still remains uncured, as can be judged from their eyes that now stand fixed on Iran and North Korea.
In the meantime, the hatred against America has been mounting with every passing day. The unprecedented rise in the number and intensity of terrorist strikes against American interests all over the world bears adequate testimony to this. The number of American soldiers being killed every day in Afghanistan and Iraq, months after the end of hostilities in both countries, also shows the extent of hatred in which Americans are held in countries they claim to have liberated. Unfortunately, the homicide mania of the American leaders has put such thick blinkers on their eyes that they cannot read the writing on the wall. There is a fear that the sanguinary
policy, to which the American leadership stands wedded, is bound to lead one day to a nuclear conflict resulting in unprecedented physical destruction and millions of human casualties.
These leaders must pay serious heed to the North Korean warning about the use of nuclear weapons in case it is attacked by America. The only way to prevent the annihilation of mankind at the hands of the American rulers is to awaken the American people and make them aware of the dangers inherent in the policies their government seems determined to pursue. Let the American people assert themselves and save humanity by removing the present rulers of their country at the earliest available opportunity. They should not allow any future government to trample the sovereignty of free nations, big or small, on flimsy grounds.