My take on war on terror
M Zahedur Rahman Chowdhury, IMS-CU, Chittagong
I have some comments on the letter titled 'My take on war on terror.' It was not clear what is the identity of S. Khan from the USA who expressed his take on the so-called "war on terror" in The Daily Star.From his views on the most recent event, one can easily understand what is the power of the Western media's propaganda. It can make one blind to his own reasoning. It is ridiculous, how a man treat all the Iraqis engaged in the guerrilla war as terrorists! I am sure that he is unfortunate to watch the happy dancing of Iraqi civilian crowd after every event of American military casualties in recent days. I think the Zionist media is not liberal enough to screen those events. He tried to justify the war on Iraq by the name of War on Terror. But his discontinued writing penned nothing in this regard. Even the desperate efforts made by the White House and Downing Street with 'sexed-up' documents could not convince the international community, let alone me. What is his intention when he judges the war from an American lens? May be he thinks that these kinds of thinking make him a perfect American. This is also wrong indeed. I ask him to storm his brain slightly with following questions: 1. How could you make a change in the leadership of other independent nations under the international law? 2. Is it America's own War on Terror? What is the evidence of linkage between al Qaeda and Saddam? 3. Where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq? 4. How could you justify thousands of deaths by US bombings? 5. What is the resolution of UN regarding wars? After enduring sanctions for more than a decade, militarily weaken Iraq should have been protected by the UN. Is it not the reason behind attacks on UN positions in Iraq? 6. If the war is for oil, is it right or lawful? He also wrote some lines on IsraelPalestinian conflict and proved his inadequate knowledge on the long lasting issue. Finally, he puts his opinion that grabbing of oil in Iraq contributes to global peace, by stabilising oil price. For his kind information, global peace does not depend on oil prices. Global peace depends mainly on fulfilling all basic needs of the world population. The American way of grabbing wealth and power and leaving half of the world's population under the poverty level cannot bring the much anticipated global peace.
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