War Map Up to the Gulf Region and the Middle East - Case Study Example

WAR IN IRAQ Judaism, Christianity and Islam make up the three Abrahamic religions of the world, which have been at daggers drawn against one another for the last many centuries even they share so many sets of belief and traditions in common as well as the part of the faith of all the three. The tension and stress between the above-described three religions have given birth to countless battles and wars, though the situation has observed severity and intensity from August 1990, when the then US President George Bush Sr. invaded the Middle Eastern state of Iraq in order to capture the oil resources of Iraq on the one hand, and subjugating her freedom on the other by taking the plea of rescuing the small neighboring country of Kuwait at the hands of the notorious Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Though the Gulf war ended in 1992, the second episode of the US-led invasion on Iraq commenced in March 2003, with far more enthusiastic way as well as for far longer period of time in comparison with the first episode of 1990-92. The nefarious designs of both Bush and bin Laden have created millions of problems for the Muslims, and generated gulf between Islam and Christianity. Muslims are suffering painfully due to cruel plans of some extremist ignorant people, who are actually infamous blur on our face, and really have no love or link with Islam, the religion of peace. (Zaidi, 2006: retrieved in allphilosophy.com) By looking into the first statement issued by George Bush soon after 9/11 catastrophe, it becomes evident that he intended to launch a so called holy crusade against the non-Christian states, nations and elements. He categorically held the Al Qaeda responsible for that all. The evidence we have gathered all points, Bush viewed, to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as al Qaeda.  They are the same murderers indicted for bombing American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, and responsible for bombing the USS Cole. (2001: retrieved in the Whitehouse.gov) It is therefore, he entered into conversation with the western and Christian powers within a week from the destruction of World Trade Center, in which he reiterated to launch crusade in order to fight against terrorism everywhere in the world. He developed lobbies for his first attack on the poor country of Afghanistan, and then expanded the canvas of self-designed war map up to Gulf region and the Middle East. Consequently a shameful campaign of blood and iron devastated the very peace and solidarity of the world at large by putting the world into a constant situation of fear and depression. The attacks of September 11, 2001, transformed the landscape of global security, none more than borders and immigration. The topography of citizenship, belonging, and suspicion instantly changed for Arab and Muslim communities in the United States. They drew the sharp attention of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence services, and that continues. (Tirman, 2006: quoted in SSRC.org) Thus, Bush’s lust for power created fear and anxiety within and outside the USA. It is therefore, it has aptly been stated that the coming US presidential elections are being contested on the condition of bringing peace in the remote and diminutive tribal areas of the south Asian state of Pakistan. The Iraqi War was not confined to one single area of the country only. Rather, the Us-led allied forces turned the whole country of Iraq into the drab, dull and dismal condition of turbulence and turmoil. In the beginning, the allied forces were instructed to capture the power and authority from the defamed cruel dictator Saddam Hussein in order to promote democracy in the country, which was absolutely contradictory for the USA, which has patronized the same type of rule in many countries of the world especially Pakistan and Cuba, and the royal type of governments in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and other countries. Hence, the USA had no right to throw away any regime of the world at all in the name of democracy. The war brought misery, woe, pains and sufferings in its wake. It has been estimated that the Bush war mania has cost over one hundred thousands lives of the Iraqi people, while the number of the civilians and forces, who became disabled, injured and wounded is far more than those who lost their lives while struggling for the freedom and independence of their country from the American tyranny. A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists, Brown (2006) submits, estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred. The estimate, produced by interviewing residents during a random sampling of households throughout the country, is far higher than ones produced by other groups, including Iraqs government. (Retrieved in Washington Post.com) Hence, the poor Iraqi nation had to bear irreparable losses in men and material because of the war lust of the western imperialist leaders like George Bush. The Iraqi people not only lost many thousands of precious life, and nationwide destruction, but also the nature of punishment of resistance against the invaders was also too shameful to describe even. The horrible pictures of the Abu Ghuraib Prisons taken by the journalists and human rights activists reveal the awkward face of the invader armies and the severe crimes inflicted upon the poor and helpless Iraqis. The Iraqi prisoners were made thread bare and were attacked by the beasts and wild dogs, which bit their sex organs making their death process the worst possible one. The rape remained very common in the prison, which has been revealed by the letters found from the Abu Ghuraib narrated the pathetic and gloomy picture of the whole situation, as the letter from an innocent young girl brings tears into eyes, who had described the situation in these words. “Our wombs have been filled with the children of fornication by those sons of apes and pigs who raped us. Or I could tell you that they have defaced our bodies, spit in our faces and ……. Is it true that you do not know what is happening to us? We are your sisters. God will be calling you to account [about this] tomorrow.” (Retrieved in http://lanallah.blogspot.com/2005/02/fathima-martryed-in-abu-ghuraib-prison.html) The war in Iraq not only destroyed the Iraqi nation only, but also it badly told upon the economy of the USA. It has been estimated that trillions of dollars had been wasted just to subjugate a weak state of the Middle East in order to soothe George Bush’s passion of ruling over others. There is no such thing as a free lunch, according to Bilmes & Stiglitz (2008), and there is no such thing as a free war. The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far beyond loose mortgage lending. You cant spend $3 trillion -- yes, $3 trillion -- on a failed war abroad and not feel the pain at home. The unemployment has wide opened its doors to the American youth, and the elderly mourn over the untimely deaths of their young children, who have lost their lives during the war in Iraq. The Iraqi war has given birth to the colossal problems for the Americans and terrorism, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, price hike of oil products, globalization, the unabated unemployment and widening gulf between the USA and Iran have become the moot point especially during the present campaign for the presidency of the USA. In the nutshell, it appears crystal clear that the war in Iraq has not only jeopardized the very peace and harmony of the world at large, but also it has badly affected the economic as well as strategic position of the USA. In addition, the whole war scenario has challenged the stability of the US currency on the one hand, and strengthened the Chinese products and currency in international markets on the other. Moreover, the war has divided the world into many fractions, and has dragged the world into a miserable state of isolation. The people living in Iraq, Afghanistan and other Third World regions have started considering the USA as an aggressor, which is always ready to destroy and disturb the very foundations of the weaker states of the globe. REFERENCES: President George Bush’s Address to the Joint Session of Congress (Quoted in http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html) Bilmes, Linda J. & Stiglitz Joseph E. The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More. The Washington Post 03/07/2008 (Retrieved in http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846.html) Brown, David. Study Claims Iraqs Excess Death Toll Has Reached 655,000 The Washington Post. 10/11/ 2006 (Retrieved in http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001442.html) Tirman, John. Immigration and Insecurity: Post-9/11 Fear in the United States. Border battles: The US Immigration Debated. 07/28/2006 (Quoted in http://borderbattles.ssrc.org/Tirman/ Zaidi, Mujtaba H. The Nasty bin Laden. 2006 (Quoted in Allphilosophy.com/topic/1667) Read More