, THE LEATHER MISSILES,
Recently American people showed to the whole world that they really uphold the values which they cherish .Democracy if it really does exist for surely dwells there .It could not have been imagined that the people there would elect a person who had migrated and become a citizen only few years back to become the president of the world’s only real superpower .Remember how Mrs. Sonia Gandhi had to pave way for Mr. Manmohan Singh when the issueless yet despotic BJP tried the play the foreigner card . India only makes the claims of being the largest democracy while the America undoubtedly showed their own claims materialize .It proved that for being the best it doesn’t require being the largest. Its voters rose above the archaic caste, creed and particularly the “colour “ politics and voted for Mr.Obama to become the country’s 44th president .undoubtedly the issue that he being Barrack “Hussain” Obama was blown out of proportion .But still the people voted for him . It can’t be said that the memory traces of tragic 9/11 had been erased from their brains, especially in the wake that these things are miraculously uncommon there and undeniable remains the fact that the “culprits” truly or untruly carried Muslim names.
America is undeniably the country that heads the seat of power and calls its shots as and when required. It can boast of its material progress, its economy, the quality of life its citizens have. It respects talent more than anything else keeping aside issues of ethnicity and race at the backburner .This can be guessed from the whopping immigrations that take place to this part of globe ,although it hasn’t been the promenade as it used to be especially after September 11 incident .For a comparison the Arab states never allow any immigrations even to Muslims not to think of people of different religious identity Reasons are best known to them ,although it wont be out of place to mention that in order not to dissolve their pseudo nationalistic identity ,these rules are in place .The world that has turned into a global village seems to be unappealing to them ,rather they remain confined within their narrow domestic walls. If this would not have been the case then a Unified Arab State would have been the reality much before the euro unified Europe.
The picture definitely has other side as well. If it one time it is the immigrates’ paradise at the same time, it ranks as the|” world’s most hated nation” as well. As one tries to delve through the reasons, the Bush family has a major role to play if one considers in context of recent times only. In the era of senior Bush Iraq was prompted to attack Kuwait and that resulted in the fierce gulf war .Immediately the” golden” boy Saddam Hussain was branded as the dangerous villain by the same people who had pampered him earlier . Mr.Rumsfield’s visit to Iraq before the gulf war and meeting with Saddam is not any longer a hidden entity. The junior Bush surpassed his father in not only eliminating Saddam but opening another front in Afghanistan. One sovereign country was attacked and turned to stone age on the pretext of finding weapons of mass destruction, which haven’t been” confiscated “still. And another country already war torn was turned into a testing laboratory for the latest war weaponry including the Daisy cutters and cave busters only on pretext of nabbing a single “fugitive” ..Osama bin laden .Both battles turned into Napoleon’s waterloo for America because the enemy being “invisible “proved invincible as well ,be it in the form of dollars pushed into the wars or the ever rising American causalities or the economic meltdown .It could be also understood in the form popular unrest at the heart of American people itself against the war .The “farewell’ boot that Mr. Bush received courtesy of an earlier less known but today’s famous TV reporter Mr.Muntazer al-Zaidi summed the sentiment of majority of people of world in general and Muslim ,Arab and Iraqi sentiment in particular.Zaidi shouted “this is the goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people,dog”.In the Arab world this is the worst form of insult that can be inflicted on any person .Mr.zaidi held him responsible for all the destruction and devastation that could be seen in Iraq today. He held him responsible for thousands of dead and for millions rendered homeless as a result of 2003 US led invasion .Well president Bush ducked beautifully and showed his athletic ability and his reaction wasn’t one that was livid but as was made to believe by the media coverage of one that was robust and unmoved by the frenzy around . We don’t know what Muntazer’s fate would be ,if charged of an attempted murder which in the most probability, “the leathery missiles “would not have achieved, could leave him in detention for 15 years or the least he could be charged for insulting a visiting head of a state leading to a jail of 2 to 7 years, the worst could be a kangaroo court sentencing him for life . The thing that can stop it is the massive support his action is amassing, both inside and outside Iraq. It could not be love for this man but the deep seated hatred against Bush and his policies .The support base is progressively increasing shifting across the continents, the latest admirer being the Venezuelan president Hugo Rafael Chavez who described his action as “courageous”.
Mr.Obama’s election has brought a new ray of hope to the world at large .He can choose to follow the footsteps of Clinton whose efforts bore fruit in the Bosnia and Kosovo not to forget the referendum and liberation of East Timor. In his regime American economy reached new heights, or he can follow his predecessor to virtual doom .Till then we can only hope his plans to widen the operations in Afghanistan take a back seat .Otherwise its not far when we all may need to reach for our Shoes.
ARIF HUSSAIN SARMAST
EMAIL;arifhsarmast@gmail.com
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