Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Barack Obama – The New George Bush

A few issues back, I wrote an editorial on how the revolution was happening in Egypt and how civilisation was changing elsewhere in the Arab world... Ergo, when a few days later, we got this incisive article from my icon Fidel Castro (see the following page), it was a tough decision to run it concurrently with my editorial. One feared people would think that Castro’s perspective was the opposite of what I wrote. Still, we didn't discard Fidel’s column, as we thought we would carry it in the succeeding issue of our sister publication The Sunday Indian (TSI), with a clarifying note... And then the Japanese disaster took place and this article went into the back burner. Personally, I would have wanted the column to be the cover story of TSI’s issue dated 28 March-3 April 2011, but for the fact that Dr. Binayak Sen’s Supreme Court hearing was coming close and, after all, we are more committed to India than to any other part of the world. [The cover story in that issue of TSI was titled, ‘Supreme Court must initiate a change in sedition laws and release Binayak Sen’.] However, what is happening in Libya makes my blood boil. Col. Muammar Gaddafi is that man who, 40 years back, made the OPEC and in one go made the Western world pay the right price for oil and made Arab nations rich. He is that way an icon by himself for the developing world. That one stroke which hit the West so hard is something they haven’t been able to digest yet. And therefore, the moment they got a chance, they have started bombing Libya; and, for a change, India has rightly shown true courage in strongly condemning the attack. Sarkozy, on the other hand, has totally lost it at home and found this a lovely way to divert attention and act smart. But the most disgusting part is the final revelation that Obama, the ludicrous Nobel Peace Prize winner, is no different from Bush. Shame on what the greedy West is doing. The real rogue nations like Pakistan and conspiring nations like Saudi Arabia remain friends of the West, while they ruthlessly bomb the oil-producing nations for their personal benefit. The saddest part, however, is that oil was $40 a barrel before the Iraq war. Following the war, it touched the $100 plus mark. Now, with the pounding of Libya, it will end up touching $150 plus! And the West seems to not have learnt its lessons from Afghanistan. You can't win a war in such lands through air strikes... And in Libya again, they will lose it. I will only end by saying that it’s time for a grand alliance of India, China and Russia to neutralise these imperialistic forces from creating more destruction in this world for greed.


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