9/11 The Great Game and the Muslim World

Rommel

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9/11 – The Great Game and the Muslim World

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After the 9/11 tragedy, there emerged widespread fear and paranoia in the United States, and the Bush administration exploited it fully to perpetuate its rule. Taking advantage of the paranoia that was essentially created by the propagandist international mass media, President Bush took the decision to invade Iraq – on the pretext that Saddam Hussain was harboring weapons of mass destruction – and Afghanistan, to brow beat the Taliban and capture or kill Osama Bin Laden and the top hierarchy of Al-Qaeda.

However, it is clear that the ‘war on terror’ was not aimed at eliminating terrorism. On the contrary, it gave a boost to the military industrial complex of the US, and is aimed at grabbing the energy resources of the Middle East, Central Asia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Dangerously, the US objectives in the region are stunningly nefarious, though stated otherwise. These unstated objectives include the encirclement and containment of power centres in the region,capturing and controlling strategic trade and energy corridors and, importantly, ‘destruction of the political model of Islam’, by defacing it as a violent philosophy. It may seem like an overstretched idea or a biased analysis of regional geopolitics, but an examination of the abridgement of the American wars in Asia after 9/11 vindicates the US intent to pursue these grand strategy objectives. Using terrorism and war on terror as frontage, the US successfully established its military footprint in the strategic nerve points across Asia.

The Middle East, East Asia, Southeast Asia and Central Asia, along with all land and sea trade as well as the energy corridors, are all areas of interest for the US. All these foreign policy objectives are actually different phases of one larger scheme, of asserting the US control over the whole Eurasian region, (with Africa and Oceania regions acting as peripheries) in its pig-headed obsession of world domination under a new world order (read disorder).

Thus, a ‘Great Game’ has surfaced on a new plane, and the integrity and sovereignty of developing countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran is at stake. Particularly, in this new great game, Pakistan and Afghanistan are in the middle of what many analysts call the “PIPELINEISTAN WARS”.

The US presence in the region and its aggressive designs have led to anger and frustration amongst the vast majority of the people, culminating in anti-US sentiments and the assertion of the fact that the notorious US military onslaught is a war against ‘ISLAM’.

Firstly, Russia and China are the power players in the Asian region. Right now, it is nothing else but ever growing Chinese economic and military might that has frightened the Neo-Cons in the US. During Bush administration, they tried their level best to bash Chinese policies in their recommendations. Four years back, China reacted very forcefully against the moves of ExxonMobil to set a project in the South China Sea with Vietnam. US and other players like India want to curtain Chinese influence inside Asia, as China is becoming more and more active in the Indian Ocean. To keep its double digit economic growth rate in momentum, the only thing China needs more than anything else is Energy.

China has taken all the necessary steps to have sufficient energy resources currently, but in the future, it will need more oil and gas. The procurement of Gawadar Port and an energy pact with Venezuela are consolidating the regional influence of China. The growing interests of the Chinese in the Arabian Gulf are irking the US; therefore, overt and covert operations are being launched to limit Chinese access to the Arabian Sea. This access is very critical for China, as it will not only enable it to fulfill its energy needs, but will also provide it with a strategic military footprint in the Arabian Sea and Gulf, and this has caused complete detestation on the part of the US towards China.


But, interestingly, in the current scenario, it is the US who needs China more than the other way round, as the US is in a deep crisis economically, and Saudi Arabia and China are the only bailout options. But the only way out of the crisis would be if the US stops its military invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is nowhere near and China is more than happy to lend its money to the US to get more and more interest in return, which will come right from the US taxpayers, further deepening the crisis.On the other hand, although the US-Soviet competition for global hegemony eventually led to the decpimation of the later, the tussle continues over the geo-strategic manuvering.

By installing a puppet regime in Georgia through the ‘color revolution’, the US achieved a mammoth target of blocking Russian oil export to Europe by pipelines running through Georgia. Scheunemann then went on to draft a resolution to expand the NATO by giving membership to Georgia, paving the way for bringing the US troops at the gates of Russia. Moreover, the presence of the US bases in Central Asian states, the erection of Missile shields in north Asia, coupled with the heavy presence of the US naval bases in the Mediterranean are increasing the friction.

The relentless opposition to the US war adventurism and the unwavering Russian backing for Iran and Syria is a clear indication that Russian restraint is becoming thinner.The accomplishment of the US foreign policy goals has become a complex undertaking for the US, due to the emergence of strong economies in Asia with divergent interests. The entire US scheme of asserting itself in the whole of Eurasia and the consequent conflicts revolve around the littoral nations of the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea.

Secondly, the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the fragmentation of the Soviet Empire in the 1980s led a number of scholars and advocates of liberal capitalism to proclaim theses such as ‘The end of History’, the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ and the ‘dawn of the new world order, to describe the world situation.

They celebrated the downfall of the Berlin Wall as the end of an era – Socialism and the ushering of a new era of rivalry depicted by an alliance of Confucian-Islam versus the West. Tony blair’s proclamation of the inhumane NATO bombing of Iraq and Afghanistan as the last ‘Crusade’ sums up the evil thought process that has incapacitated the facade of the democratic values of the West. Thus, the immoral invasion of the Muslim world was imminent, given the insane utopia of ‘CRUSADES’ across the leaders of the Western civilisation – the endless Crusade that unites the civilized world against the elusive Old Man of the Mountains. Apparently, the God-less modern civilisation is actually a “NATIONALIST CHRISTIAN” civilisation.

It has declared a ruthless war against the world of Islam, ripping apart its economic, social and moral fabric by coercive tactics. Manipulating and maneuvering the politics of the Muslim world, defying the opinion of the majority, creating havoc in societies and then crying hoarse against the response that manifests itself in the form of militant Islam, which is nothing but a false name given to the political expression of the suppressed people.

And then, consequently, using the pretext of militant Islam, the obnoxious West invades the civilisedworld of Islam to open its franchises of Democracy, human values, liberalism and what not, which in reality are the brothels of oppression run by Mir Jaffars and Mir Sadiqs of the Muslim world. Doctrines like reshaping of the ‘Greater Middle East’ (Greater Israel), in favour of the imposter state of Israel, give an idea of the heretical religious leanings that drive the devilish political and military machine of the West.

Therefore, for the fulfillment of these grand objectives, the US had to occupy the heart of Central Asia, i.e., Afghanistan; by being here, the US is close to China, Russia and the energy rich Central Asian states, thus controlling the phenomenal untapped energy reserves of the region. The replacement of the much-awaited IPI gas pipeline with the TAPI (Turkmen-Afghanistan-Pakistan-Iran) pipeline is an indication of the US interests and influence in the region.Moreover, by being in Afghanistan, the US could control the axis where the political Islam is at its best, whilst intensifying the clandestine operations to denuclearize and destabilize Pakistan and other Muslim countries.

The Muslim nations should raise a voice against this American expansionism and against the use of power for the killing of the innocent people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Mali. Though the United States has been saying that Al-Qaeda was behind the terrorist attacks on the US on September 11, 2001, the investigations are far from complete. In fact, many high officials in the US say that it was an inside job, and there are various evidences available on the internet. A regional strategic consensus among Muslim nations is mandatory to disrupt, dislodge and destroy the US’ great game in the region; otherwise, the region will be pushed into further subjugation and darkness.

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