"The
Americans say they descended on Iraq to liberate it from Saddam's tyranny and
give its people liberation and democracy. Now a world overawed by their projection
of military power and political influence dare not call them out and put them
in the dock for mass murder."
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari fixes a photo of his slaim wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, on the podium before his address to the opening of the 64th session of the U.N. General Assembly, Sept. 25.
Human intellect is a gift
that sets human beings apart from beasts. And although it's constructive, it can also
be very, terribly, destructive. The faculty for rationalization that it lends
human beings can become a lethal tool for blackening things that are the most
spotless, portraying the basest human act as the noblest, and of calling the
most naked aggression a justified war. Such was the case with America's 2003 invasion
and occupation of Iraq - executed along with its "coalition of the willing"
war party.
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The U.N. Security Council, created
to decide global issues of war and peace, specifically rejected this invasion. Yet
America led its war party to invade and occupy Iraq, inflicting in the process
many more Iraqi deaths and injuries than there were in six decades of Saddam
Hussein's tyrannical rule, not to mention the mass exodus of its people.
Subsequent events have
established beyond a shred of doubt that America and its allies waged this war
on patent lies and deceit. Saddam was neither found in possession of weapons of
mass destruction or to have any ties to the 9/11 terrorist attack on America.
It is now a proven fact that
both America and Britain, the two principal protagonists of the Iraqi
invasion, invented lies and doctored intelligence to create a pretext for
war. Yet while Saddam and his cabal have long ago been tried and hanged
for crimes against humanity, the perpetrators of the unlawful and illegal blood-soaked
aggression against Iraq roam free.
More appallingly,
unabashed and with a straight face, the Americans have been calling for the
noose and the necks of whoever they like. Its thanks largely to this lethal
human faculty of rationalization that the Americans can, before the fact, brand
whoever they please as perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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The Americans say they
descended on Iraq to liberate it from Saddam's tyranny and give its people
liberation and democracy. Now a world overawed by their projection of military power
and political influence dare not call them out and put them in the dock for mass
murder in Iraqi. Here at home intellectual jugglery is also in full swing, as
the elite pretend to be something they're not.
Evidently,
there are presently two Pakistan's: one political and one of average people.
The political Pakistan is
affluent, opulent and rich; it is Pakistan of the establishment, of political
elites, of feudal lords and land barons, of captains of industry and business,
of wealthy professionals; of the wealthy clergy, of the corporate media, of dollar-laden
NGOs, of euro-loaded civil society; all of them overflowing with pretence, self-righteousness,
self-aggrandizement and self-advancement.
The folksy Pakistan is of the
poor, the downtrodden, and the denied and deprived, of enslaved peasantry and
caged tenants, of unemployed, of subsistence-earning hands, of the chronically
sick, of the slums, of desolate villages steeped in squalor, want and penury.
The political
Pakistan, though smallish and tiny, has overawed the folksy Pakistan and
dominates it completely, even though common folk are oceanic in number.
Yet we are told by political
Pakistan that we're a democracy. But a government of the people, by the people
and for the people, which makes a democracy of a polity - it is definitely not.
This is a government of the elites, by the elites and for the elites, which is
out-and-out a plutocracy; democracy it is not and cannot be. But we wouldn't
want to be judgmental here. We leave it to you, our esteemed readers, to ponder
if this human prowess of rationalization is a virtue or a curse. Have your own
take.
