“These are the times that try men’s souls”, noted Thomas Paine in his famous “Common Sense”, the lifeline to American independence.
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja
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In situations of adversity and crises, leaders represent optimism and hope for change, not egoistic agenda and confusion. Peace requires new thinking and new visions that American President and Israeli PM do not have except the war agenda. Would peace and security grow out of nowhere?
Threatening rhetoric of pre-emptive war strikes on Iran's nuclear centers and the nuisance of individualistic political indoctrination do not articulate rational and responsible opportunities for rational and intelligent leaders to engage in peaceful dialogue or conflict resolution.
Obama appeared confused instead of pragmatic and visionary. His face and body language did not seem to correspond to his movements of lips and the air he was breathing at the AIPAC stage. There is no scarcity of proactive Jewish intellectuals and scholars in Israel and America enriched with political imagination and strong sense of interests of the global humanity. There are people who love peace and harmony with the Arabs and Palestinians, and likewise, American thinkers and political visionaries who could do a better job than Netanyahu and Obama’s warrior mindsets.
In a knowledge-driven global culture of enhanced human communications and proactive visions for sustainable futuristic co-existence between Man and the encompassed Universe of divergent civilizations, we. the educators and learners, are to exercise rational capacity of thoughts, universal ideals and continuous intelligent foresight to change and adaptability to the future-making. This requires intelligent commitment to principles of international peace and security for all, non-aggression in the working of global system, protection of life and a balanced ecological culture of co-existence within the encompassed Universe-Man and the Humanity.
As the presidential elections are dominating the 2012 political culture across the United States, the world is nervously watching when and where the insanity would hit next. It is predictably unpredictable curiosity of the unknown impulse; otherwise, the news media and war-profiteering lobbyists would go bankrupt. Today, Obama spoke to the politically influential AIPAC Israeli lobby in Washington. Global peace, humanity and security of the Middle East region are the net causality of Obama’s egomaniac rhetoric. War of words and hasty and conveniently arrived personalized hypothesis of the few sadistic intellects on complex global issues are draining out the time and opportunities for dialogue and positive thinking.
The Iran war hysteria is heightened with immense fear-mongering, as was the case of the false Iraqi WMD hysteria and the continued bogus Wars of Terrorism were planned and launched against Iraq and Afghanistan. What did the present or the former US political leadership achieve out of the insanity of the Wars?
Throughout the decade-long Iraq war, the Pentagon and the European-hired mercenaries refused to count the civilian causalities in Iraq, but impartial observations put the civilian figures killed, tortured to death including Abu Ghraib, Fluodga, Baghdad and across the land of the ancient in the range of three millions lives destroyed. These were nothing short of genocidal acts against people and humanity who had neither threatened nor had the ability to harm the US-European national sovereignty or countries. Would those responsible -- George Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Tony Blair and so many others be brought to justice as was the case at Nuremberg trials and Japan after the WW2?
The Western democracy appears too complacent in its own search for relevance. Huntington (‘the Clash of the Civilizations’) had the sense to speak of the decadent nature of the Western culture and civilization looking for change but standing firm in its self–engineered animosity against Muslims and Islam. And it's the policy bubble and behavioral hysteria that continues to govern the mind and priorities of the Western foreign policy makers. The institutionalized animosity propagated to poison the minds and perceptions of the ordinary Western people as if the Arabs-Muslims were born in the eye of the storm or as readily standing armies –“jihadist” against the Crusaders.
After 9/11, the US, Canada and Western Europeans invested billions and billions in devising the legal precepts -- laws on terrorism, and empowering the intelligence agencies-CIA-FBI, Canadian apparatus, British and others to become Think-Tanks for foreign policy making and systematic surveillance on the public. The undemocratic secretive powers of the security agencies have alarmed the masses across North America and Western Europe leading to opposition and strong rejection of the War on Terrorism and further enslaving of humanity.
Redefined NATO gets new life to cover its past failure in dealing with the USSR and to wage unchartered wars in the region of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya with drone attacks, hired private mercenaries from Eastern Europe and Muslim nations. Plus, the CIA's secret 100 or so offshore investigative centers in many former Eastern European-Middle Eastern Arab outlets are the framework of global terrorism planned and executed by the superpowers.
Colin Wilson (A Criminal History of Mankind) offers a rational context to the self-perpetuated decline of the Roman Empire as they were egomaniac leaders and full of the sensation of power, behaved like children and attempted at civilization to collapse into chaos, ruins and dark ages:
Noam Chomsky (“What are Iran’s intentions?” ICH: 03/3/2012) offers a rational context to the US media-led highly charged agenda and forthcoming American presidential election hysterical paradigm:
President Eisenhower in his farewell address (January 17, 1961), to the American people must have sensed the decadent futuristic moral, intellectual and political culture in the US governance to warn his countrymen:
“Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.”
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in global security, peace and conflict resolution, and comparative Western-Islamic cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications in international affairs.
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Activist Post
In situations of adversity and crises, leaders represent optimism and hope for change, not egoistic agenda and confusion. Peace requires new thinking and new visions that American President and Israeli PM do not have except the war agenda. Would peace and security grow out of nowhere?
Threatening rhetoric of pre-emptive war strikes on Iran's nuclear centers and the nuisance of individualistic political indoctrination do not articulate rational and responsible opportunities for rational and intelligent leaders to engage in peaceful dialogue or conflict resolution.
Obama appeared confused instead of pragmatic and visionary. His face and body language did not seem to correspond to his movements of lips and the air he was breathing at the AIPAC stage. There is no scarcity of proactive Jewish intellectuals and scholars in Israel and America enriched with political imagination and strong sense of interests of the global humanity. There are people who love peace and harmony with the Arabs and Palestinians, and likewise, American thinkers and political visionaries who could do a better job than Netanyahu and Obama’s warrior mindsets.
In a knowledge-driven global culture of enhanced human communications and proactive visions for sustainable futuristic co-existence between Man and the encompassed Universe of divergent civilizations, we. the educators and learners, are to exercise rational capacity of thoughts, universal ideals and continuous intelligent foresight to change and adaptability to the future-making. This requires intelligent commitment to principles of international peace and security for all, non-aggression in the working of global system, protection of life and a balanced ecological culture of co-existence within the encompassed Universe-Man and the Humanity.
As the presidential elections are dominating the 2012 political culture across the United States, the world is nervously watching when and where the insanity would hit next. It is predictably unpredictable curiosity of the unknown impulse; otherwise, the news media and war-profiteering lobbyists would go bankrupt. Today, Obama spoke to the politically influential AIPAC Israeli lobby in Washington. Global peace, humanity and security of the Middle East region are the net causality of Obama’s egomaniac rhetoric. War of words and hasty and conveniently arrived personalized hypothesis of the few sadistic intellects on complex global issues are draining out the time and opportunities for dialogue and positive thinking.
The Iran war hysteria is heightened with immense fear-mongering, as was the case of the false Iraqi WMD hysteria and the continued bogus Wars of Terrorism were planned and launched against Iraq and Afghanistan. What did the present or the former US political leadership achieve out of the insanity of the Wars?
Throughout the decade-long Iraq war, the Pentagon and the European-hired mercenaries refused to count the civilian causalities in Iraq, but impartial observations put the civilian figures killed, tortured to death including Abu Ghraib, Fluodga, Baghdad and across the land of the ancient in the range of three millions lives destroyed. These were nothing short of genocidal acts against people and humanity who had neither threatened nor had the ability to harm the US-European national sovereignty or countries. Would those responsible -- George Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Tony Blair and so many others be brought to justice as was the case at Nuremberg trials and Japan after the WW2?
After 9/11, the US, Canada and Western Europeans invested billions and billions in devising the legal precepts -- laws on terrorism, and empowering the intelligence agencies-CIA-FBI, Canadian apparatus, British and others to become Think-Tanks for foreign policy making and systematic surveillance on the public. The undemocratic secretive powers of the security agencies have alarmed the masses across North America and Western Europe leading to opposition and strong rejection of the War on Terrorism and further enslaving of humanity.
Redefined NATO gets new life to cover its past failure in dealing with the USSR and to wage unchartered wars in the region of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya with drone attacks, hired private mercenaries from Eastern Europe and Muslim nations. Plus, the CIA's secret 100 or so offshore investigative centers in many former Eastern European-Middle Eastern Arab outlets are the framework of global terrorism planned and executed by the superpowers.
Colin Wilson (A Criminal History of Mankind) offers a rational context to the self-perpetuated decline of the Roman Empire as they were egomaniac leaders and full of the sensation of power, behaved like children and attempted at civilization to collapse into chaos, ruins and dark ages:
The Romans were slipping into violence by a process of self-justification, and once a nation or an individual has started down this particular slope, it is impossible to apply breaks the Roman people were too unimaginative and short sighted to realize that, once murder has been justified on grounds of expediency, it can become a habit, then a disease.There is a continuing evolution of the war thinking and conflict-making and conflict-keeping against Iran within the aegis of the current Obama presidency, more so now into the re-election agenda of the incumbent President. The international community is entrenched in this sickening dilemma of the few cancerous puppies unable to see the monstrous culpability and fallibility of few sadistic minds.
Noam Chomsky (“What are Iran’s intentions?” ICH: 03/3/2012) offers a rational context to the US media-led highly charged agenda and forthcoming American presidential election hysterical paradigm:
As tensions flare between Iran and the West …………Europeans regard Israel as the greatest threat to world peace. In the Arab world, Iran is disliked but seen as a threat only by a very small minority. Rather, Israel and the U.S. are regarded as the pre-eminent threat………….There is little credible discussion of just what constitutes the Iranian threat, though we do have an authoritative answer, provided by U.S. military and intelligence. Their presentations to Congress make it clear that Iran doesn’t pose a military threat…………… The understanding of serious Israeli and U.S. analysts is expressed clearly by 30-year CIA veteran Bruce Riedel, who said in January, 'If I was an Iranian national security planner, I would want nuclear weapons” as a deterrent.'“These are the times that try men’s souls”, noted Thomas Paine. In situations of great adversity and crises, leaders should represent optimism and hope for change, not egoistical agendas, confusion, and hate.
President Eisenhower in his farewell address (January 17, 1961), to the American people must have sensed the decadent futuristic moral, intellectual and political culture in the US governance to warn his countrymen:
“Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.”
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in global security, peace and conflict resolution, and comparative Western-Islamic cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications in international affairs.
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It always is strange that no one who mentions the coming atomic war never seems to stop an think of Japan where one reactor was damaged and has blanket this country with radiation fall out and nobody, the common sheep or our great leaders, never stop to think what would happen to us if these nut cases running the world was to unleash the big bombs the dumb idiots cannot under stand that there is no winner anywhere if they do.
I is all so to wonder at that non of the writers ever bring up this problem it is as if everyone is still locked in the last wars where the damage was always locolized and no body stops to think of the world wide damage one exchange could do to every one it is an extream case of what goes up is going to come down on your own head
wise words! agree 100%!
Leaders : The (Nazi) socio-psychopaths: absolutely empathy-less serial killer, natural born killers , that were, are and will be our leaders. Just one parasitical system to misuse, abuse and mystify the humanity and the real social live of mankind.
Because they don't like to work, they like to parasite us and to kill us in total impunity, that is the actual way of rules today and the real face of our not necessary to be governments !
If your gonna play, your gonna pay.. And they are all playing with fire. They all have itchy trigger fingers and are so nervous and afraid of one another, that if one pushes a button, then they will all follow. The allies of allies will all join in and we will most definately see our end. Humanity is at its worst. they all need to grow some Balls and set aside their differences and restore the balance of power with real peace! But as we all know, you cant change those who dont want to be changed, out of pride or whatever the hell their BS excuses are. Lifes a bitch! And we are all gonna pay for their mistakes.
Wars are seldom fought over humanatarian principles, they are fought over business interest. World war 111 is the last card that the bankers have left to play. With limited capital and resourse, the planet earth can not support over 7 billion people. The agenda of the elitist is population reduction and control of the resourses.
My analysis: Obama is trying to pacify the American rightwing hawks, the Israeli hawks, and the Iranian hawks, as well as the Chinese and Russian and Pakistani hawks.
Such a daunting task would lead to awkward body language, which is the evidence presented in the article that he is "muddled."
HOw to do this:
Assure American right that he will leave military strikes on the table
Assure Israeli hawks that we are in "lockstep."
Assure Iranian leaders that while talking tough, the administration is trying to delay military reponse to give diplomacy a chance.
Assure Russian, Chinese, and Pakistani (all nuclear) leaders (who are pressured by their hawks to be ready to defend Iran if attacked) that while talking tough to pacify Western hawks, he is creating a window of opportunity for diplomacy and compromise to work.
This is like tight rope walking while being sniped at from several sides. In this case, while criticizing Obama for Libya and other mistakes, we need to support his effort to give peace a chance. Cynicism will only enable the hawks. We should critize Obama when he is wrong but support him when he is right: in this case, he is the only hope of preventing a war.
HIs rhetoric has to be seen in this complex context of reassuring those who want to bomb Iran while using this reassurance to create space to find peaceful solutions.
Lumping Obama with the usual hawks only weakens his ability to stall their trigger-happy impulses.
Ultimately, it is up to the Iranians (whose hawks are calling for a military build up) to
take this opportunity to take advantage of the space Obama is trying to create to find a solution short of war.
I am not defending Obama but trying to understand and explain his rhetoric in terms of
dealing with the rush to war. He's out there on that tight rope (which leads to a peaceful resolution) and if anti-war forces snipe at him, it just makes his efforts less possible.
It's easy to claim he is being hypocritical, but like it or not, he is our only hope to avoid a new war. If McCain had won, we would already be at war in Iran as well as Syria (with Sara in the wings). Let's support the peace initiative Obama is trying to propose in order to keep the hawks from winning the argument.
I disagree. The more population, the more poor people, the more wages drop and profits soar. The rich live behind gates in their own bubble, and if the rest of us are stacked on top of each other, that just ensures that we can be hired for less and less.
The agenda of the elites is a vast pool of unemployed to drag down wages and increase their profits. They can manage this from Jackson Hole or Davos or some other distant paradise, avoiding the hordes of underpaid workers and unemployed. War is waged not to reduce populations (the poorer the people, the MORE children they have) but to control resources and stimulate the economy with military Keynesian policies (Bush told Lula: "War is good for the economy.")
The mankind as a whole is increasingly worried and dismayed not to find some pause in the continued madness of wars, killings and global devasatations of the human habitats. We should try to look out of the box, what is wrong with our thinking and priroities. One point hits hard that global institutions such as the UNO-Security Council have failed to play any effective role to ensure peace and security of the mankind. After all, wherever there is a natural tragedy or man-made catastrophies , it is the collective mankind that suffers and victimized, not the few ruling elite, or the Presidents or Prime Ministers. Perhaps, we should develop a new global organization - a different UNO managed by the competent -honest people of the world and accountable to the people of the international community.
An excellent article and truthful reflection on the current crisis. Surely, the scenario to foresee a new world organization makes good sense and the international political scholars and experts in international law should see its feasibility to safeguard the humanity from the
"scourge of wars."
Everyone, especially our leaders, need to watch the film "On the Beach" about a dozen times. Made in the 60's it was the first movie with no "happy ending" The results of a post nuclear war situation in Australia. The rest of the planet is dead, and we watch the last days as the people there begin to get sick and realize it is all over. Was a chilling look at the reality of nuclear war, that everyone seems to have forgotten. Where the bombs fall, where the explosions flatten buildings and incinerate people is only the beginning, it is the slow death afterwards for everyone else as the radiation kills us all that our leaders seem to want to ignore. Wake up folks, there is no going back once we push the button!
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