Opinion
Will the War against
Terrorism become Successful?
by TA Ramesh
There is no end to war against terrorism because it has no boundaries in
the world. But without putting an end to terrorism, there is no peace,
stability and progress in the world. International terrorism has become
a big threat to the civilized world. There is a unanimous approval by
all the nations of the world for the fight against terrorism so that the
dream of world union or one world could be achieved. Even in the
international meetings of developed and developing nations it has been
declared that terrorism is standing as an impediment to developmental
activities and so, it is decided to exert international pressure over
adamant nations supporting directly or indirectly terrorism of all kinds
in order to bring a permanent end to terrorism in the world.
Terrorism as a New Form of War
Many extremist groups use terrorism as the instrument of policy to
achieve their objectives in the world. Of them, the Al Qaeda
organization under the leadership of Osama bin Laden, after its
terrorist hijacking of two Air Buses and attacks on the twin towers of
the World Trade Center in New York to rubbles on the 11th Sept. 2001 has
been branded as the most dangerous terrorist outfit in the world; and
the global war on terrorism has been started under the leadership of the
US President, George W. Bush there after. But terrorism was there, is
there and perhaps will be there. For many years terrorism is going on in
Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Africa, Central, West and South
East Asian countries. After the Sept. 11th attack only, the European
Union and the USA came to know what kind of a formidable proportion
terrorism was capable of taking and harming lives and properties in the
world. Then the west realized that terrorism was a new form of war which
had to be dealt with equally in a possibly new form by the participation
of all nations in the world in unanimity.
Unipolar World
After the Cold War, the erstwhile States of the Soviet Union dismantled
and formed themselves into new nations. The only remaining Super Power,
USA is imaging itself to be the hyper power of the unipolar world today,
which is dangerous to itself and the world in the future. The wars USA
is talking about and the plan of execution even without the approval of
the UNO to solve the problems of the world cannot be always justified or
approved by all as correct for everything. This kind of attitude is not
in tune with the interests of France, Germany, Russia, China and India.
Hence there is a bright chance for the formation of Multipolar World in
the future.
Cow Boy way to End Terrorism
The US President’s speeches like “those who are with us are against
terrorism and those are not are supporters of terrorism” are like the
utterances of a cow boy with the gun in hand before fighting to settle
scores with his enemies. But terrorist attacks in Kashmir, Chechnya, Sri
Lanka, East Timor, Spain and other places are also like the Sept. 11
attacks and are countered by the respective nations continuously for
years together without an end because of lack of unified support from
the international community to settle it once and for all. Only after
the US has pulled the trigger, time has come to end permanently
terrorism wherever it is in the world. That is why there is unanimous
support from many nations of the world for the USA’s plan of global war
against terrorism so that the civilized nations can preserve and
safeguard their achievements in many fields for the betterment of the
world today and tomorrow.
History Repeats
Even in the changed world scenario, USA is having friendly ties with the
nations, whether they have dictatorship rule or democratic rule, in
order to maintain (Cold War) Balance of Power in the world just because
they are strategically placed in the advantageous position to it. Even
after getting good experience from the Vietnam War, American approach
against Guerrilla War or terrorist war has not yet changed. As in Iraq,
under the approval of the UN Security Council resolution 1373, USA with
UK and others raided Taliban men in Afghanistan, defeated and over threw
their government but could not locate or capture Osama bin Laden, the
chief of Al Qaeda terrorist organization hiding in some caves there. New
democratic government was also installed in Afghanistan, but the where
about of Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect of Sept. 11 terrorist attack
could not be detected. Terrorists are best at hide and seek game; before
them the use of any sophisticated weapons or modern army meets only with
failure. In this respect history repeats itself many times; yet big
powers fail to understand the lesson and accordingly follow new methods
or techniques to deal with such international crime doers. Therefore
fixed formula of military type of war cannot be a panacea for
psychological or cold or real wars.
Wrong US Approach
The understanding of America about other nations’ problems and the way
to solve them seem to be wrong on many occasions. But, if other nations
follow the same method, USA, UK, EU and others oppose that with one
voice at first and opinions of each one differ later on. The reason is
that the situations and the mindsets of Asian nations, especially, are
not the same as the ones in the west. For example, Vietnam, Iraq and
Afghanistan can be quoted, where US had unsuccessfully waged wars,
because the objectives of wars had not been accomplished there. The
unanimous approval for the counter attacks against terrorists and
squeezing financial supports to them is to bring the perpetrators before
justice for trial and punishment, and thereby render justice and restore
peace and order in the world. The way to achieve this objective should
be proper, fair and justified. That is the expectation of the civilized
nations in the global war against terrorism now.
Axis of Evil
It is clear that the organizations and nations aiding, supporting and
harboring terrorists are against the civilized world and are considered
as the enemies of the world humanity. So, it has been unanimously
decided by all that enemies of humanity have to be dealt with firmly so
that the developments, achievements and progress of civilized nations
can be saved against destruction. But the US President has even prepared
a list under the title, Axis of Evil classifying Iran, Iraq, Libya and
North Korea as rogue nations, because they are capable of manufacturing
Nuclear weapons, even using them in the future wars; and because they
cannot be controlled by their people and by any other nation in the
world. Hence, unless a change is brought about in the leadership of such
nations, they would remain as big threats to peace and stability of the
world. However, how far it was acceptable by other nations, if US went
on saying that the next target of war against terrorism after
Afghanistan was Iraq in order to oust Saddam Hussein, who went on
delivering speeches with provocative slogans to such an extent that
third World War between Muslims and Christians perhaps would come, which
nobody can say for sure now!
Supports and Opposition to Dictators
On the one hand, USA tried to oust Saddam Hussein of Iraq because he was
against USA and on the other hand, USA tries to boost Pervez Musharraf
because he is supporting USA. But both of them are military dictators.
Afraid of attacks Pakistan opted for the coalition against terrorism and
escaped its rout in the hunt for terrorists; and in return got the
favors like debt waiver, aid for its economic recovery, etc. from the
USA. General Musharraf after becoming the self made President has
increased all kinds of power to his post for staying in power for five
more years by making amendments in the Constitution of Pakistan to the
extent of removing Prime Minister, other ministers from power and even
dissolving the parliament if he feels necessary. In short, General
Musharraf has almost become the dangerous dictator much more powerful
than other dictators in the world. But how far it is digestible to
America, which has the Vision 21st Century of erasing terrorism from the
world, eradicating world poverty, boosting the economy of poor nations
and establishing democratic governments in non-democratic States
providing freedom and human rights to all the people there, nobody
knows! Merely because Pakistan is adjacent to Afghanistan and also the
erstwhile cold war strategic point advantages to it, America has joined
hands with Pakistan in order to avail itself of the easy access it has
to hunt down the terrorists there without much difficulty for its grand
plan of anti-terrorist operation in the world.
Intelligent Anti-terrorist Operation
The anti-terrorist operation of the world coalition partners does not
end with the Afghan war. It has jobs to do in Palestine, Chechnya,
Kashmir, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and other parts of the world as well. More
than that the biggest danger before the world community is the Nuclear
Weapons unfortunately falling into the hands of the terrorists, who, if
it happens, could certainly use them without any thought of holocaust,
unimaginable by anyone, or in that eventuality, the whole world could go
under the control of the terrorists, which would make the world a hell!
So, the plan of attack against terrorists and execution should be based
on intelligent, accurate facts and that too everything has to be done at
a quicker pace before the terrorists take the upper hand of the affairs.
Also, USA should be careful to avoid controversial steps, but
concentrate only on concrete steps in this global war against terrorism.
International Terrorism
There are various kinds of terrorism.
1. There
are terrorists fighting for freedom.
2. There are terrorists fighting for separate nationhood.
3. There are terrorists fighting for the cause of Jihad (Holy war).
The terrorist activities are a continuing serial story in Kashmir, which
is going on under the first category of terrorism. Under the second
category, the Tamil Tigers calling themselves as LTTE are fighting for
separate Tamil Nation in Sri Lanka. Under the third category, terrorists
are fighting for the cause of Jihad in Central Asia, Chechnya, Xinjiang
province of China, East Timor in Indonesia, etc. Ethnic terrorism and
religious terrorism are causing havoc continuously in some nations of
the world. Islamic terrorism is not confined to one nation, but takes
place in many nations; and so, Islamic terrorism is called as
International Terrorism, causing concern to the smooth functioning of
governments in the civilized nations. That is why, the final stage has
come now to end terrorism so to say after the Sept. 11th attacks. Hence
intelligence information regarding the details of terrorists all over
the world are analyzed by the strategic intellectuals of the powerful
nations of the world and plans are being chalked out in order to execute
them according to a suitable programme with the cooperation and
coordination of all nations in order to put an end to International
Terrorism once and for all in the world.
Terrorist Activities
First, for more than 20 years Liberation Tamil Tigers have been fighting
a terrorist war against Sri Lankan army pressing for their demand of
establishing separate Tamil Nation in the Northern part of Sri Lanka
without success. Realizing the futility of their pursuit so, they have
now opted for peace talks with the Sri Lankan government because of a
heavy loss of properties and lives of innocent civilians so far. But
success depends upon the cooperation of the two parties under the Sri
Lankan Constitution. Second, after the withdrawal of the Russian troops
from Afghanistan and the dismantling of Soviet Union, terrorism spawned
in Central Asia, West Asia, Southern Europe, North Africa, South East
Asia and South America. Recently Chechnyan rebels were crushed by the
strong Russian army. Terrorist troubles are going on now and then in
Spain, East Timor and Colombia. Now separatist movement is going on
increasingly in the Xinjiang province of China, which wants to keep
Tibet and even Taiwan within its hold. So, after the Al Qaeda terrorist
attacks in New York and Washington on the 11th September 2001, American
War on International Terrorism was welcomed by all. But success in this
war against terrorism depends upon the full cooperation of all nations
in the world and how long this will go on also nobody can say for sure
now.
Solution to Terrorism
Many people died in the American war against terrorism in Afghanistan.
The Jihadi terrorists ran to the West and North of Afghanistan. Many
escaped to Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and other
Central Asian countries. War is over in Afghanistan. Those, who have
abandoned terrorism, know nothing but Jihad. They are trained in the
madrassas of Pakistan only for Jihad. So, the Islamic Jihadis working
with the Talibans may have gone to the Central Asian countries, Pakistan
occupied Kashmir or even to Chechnya, Xinjiang and East Timor to do holy
wars for the Islamic causes there. Hence, terrorism cannot be stopped in
the world, unless the Islamic youths are given good education, training
in some jobs and employed in good jobs for their survival. That could be
the only way to minimize terrorist menaces and in the long run contain
terrorism in the world.
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