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Ramblings
Next Stop Iran!
by
Usha Kakkar
Unfortunately
it doesn't even make a tough quiz question - what do New York, London,
Karachi, Tel Aviv, Bali, New Delhi... have in common? Now we are truly
living in a global village. Terrorism is no longer limited to certain
'difficult' countries, far away from the comforts of home, which have
had a history of domestic violence and ethnic strife. Hence it should
hardly come as a shock that the blasts in New Delhi's Jama Masjid and
the seven serial explosions in Srinagar immediately followed the blasts
in Karachi.
News of blasts, bombings and suicide attacks aimed at specific
populations and communities are making front page news everyday, simply
the city and casualty numbers change. The editorials denouncing these
inhuman acts of carnage are becoming repetitive and possibly several of
these are written much in advance by enterprising team, barely leaving
blanks for the city and the statistics of those killed and injured.
After all these attacks are precisely like others in the past.
Although I am sure that the cities of Karachi, New Delhi and Srinagar do
not figure on the foreign policy map of the Bush administration, this
should come as a rude wake-up call to the American President's motley
group of advisors. Their prime target Osama Bin Laden is reportedly
alive in Pakistan. The war on the Amasser of WMDs Saddam Hussein hasn't
yielded results - nor yielded any WMDs for that matter. To add to the
long list of Bush's failures, the war on terror doesn't seem to have
diminished the terror activities around the globe.
The Americans need to understand that terrorism hurts everyone anywhere.
It cannot be eradicated by bombing Afghanistan and Iraq. However one can
trust President Bush to rely on trusted solutions. He is yet again
attempting what seems to have worked favorably in the past - divert
public attention to whip up public support in his favor. When 9/11
happened, he went and bombed Afghanistan. When he couldn't find Osama in
the mountains of Baluchistan he went on a mission to find nuclear
weapons and other unmentionable biological warfare in Iraq. As the body
bags being sent back home refuse to halt, the long drawn battle in Iraq
is rapidly threatening to be Bush's bloody presidential legacy to the
United States. To shift attention from Iraq, American Defence Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld & Inc. have started making threatening forecasts about
Iran and its nuclear arsenal. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has
suddenly displaced Saddam and become Enemy no. 1.
Following a Friday prayer meeting in Teheran, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati,
head of Iran's Guardian Council warned the US that Iran was not Iraq or
Afghanistan. "Now we are much more powerful than before," he said. In
retaliation U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has warned that
Iran could face severe charges in the UN on Tuesday.
However for a change, George Bush is in a quandary. Should he thank the
Lord, that contrary to the past, this time he will not be accused of
lying and misleading the Americans into war with an enemy who didn't
possess the promised military hardware. Or should he blame providence
that Iran does possess nuclear weapons and hence cannot be taken to
task.
That's what I call a Presidential Dilemma!
April 16,
2006
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The Week of April 16, 2006
Choice Before China : Dalai Lama Tests Beijing's
Credentials by Rajinder Puri
Oh God, I wish to be Sonia ... by Usha Kakkar
India MUST NOT Lose Nepal to the Maoists by
Dr. Subhash Kapila
Will the US Strike against Iran? by B. Raman
Antulay's Proclamation for Vicious Vivisection of
India by V. Sundaram
Earthquakes Threaten Obelisks of Culture by
VK Joshi
Leaders Must Set the Example so Others will
Follow by William C. Gladish
The Song and Science of Dance by Rajgopal
Nidamboor
Misuse of Myths by Foolish Fundamentalists by
Gaurang Bhatt, MD
Is there an Alternative for the Wars of the
World? by TA Ramesh
Next Stop Iran! by Usha Kakkar
When Bangalore Burnt! by Garima Gupta
Some Vastu Questions by Niranjan Babu Bangalore
A Humble Indian's Grand Vision for India by
Aruni Mukherjee
Global Search for Software Patents by M.
Qaiser & P. Mohan Chandran
VoIP : Technology to Cut
Phone Bills by Ruchi Gupta
Irom Sharmila, a Living Icon of Liberty-Famished
Indians by Marc-Olivier Parlatano
Call for Papers: Development Studies (Volume 2)
edited by Dr. Presenjit Maiti
Film Making as a Career by Pallavi
Bhattacharya
The Strange Case of Homeopathy by Dr. Muneeb
Faraaz
Silicosis – A 'Dusty' Tale in Rajasthan
by Deepak Malik
Meditation and Beauty by Sugandha Indulkar
Parents are People Too! by Garima
Gupta
Damned if I do, damned if I don't by Monisha Sen
Biking to Work by Subra Narayan
Poster Women by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
Chainsaw-Wielding Women by Stephanie Hiller
Mothers Sued, Docs go Free by Sreelatha Menon
The Right Name: Child Rights and You by Smita
Jain
100-Day Schools by Vinita Deshmukh
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