Happy Tenth Anniversary: Do you really understand ?
Today
is the tenth anniversary of the events on 9/11. We can clearly see that the American led so-called ‘war on terrorism’ has been a miserable failure. Whichever way we assess it the war has been lost by the US and those allied with them around the world. Instead of decreasing the risk of another 9/11, the chances of another 9/11 is today more likely than it has ever been. Rather than securing Iraq and Afghanistan, those regions together with a whole host of others in the Muslim world are today vying with each other to implement the Shari’ah, engage in Jihad and to end the hegemony of the capitalist camp. In fact 10 years on from 9/11 one could almost claim total victory for the Mujahideen fighting against their sworn enemies.
Many factors have contributed to this scenario not least the fact that George Bush started the campaign with the notorious words ‘You are either with us or with the terrorists’ and that he would be engaged in ‘this crusade’. The attempt to win the hearts and minds of Muslims has failed not to mention those of the non-Muslims who have witnessed for themselves the torture, murder and oppression by those who were supposed to be the bastions of freedom, democracy and liberty.
The lies from Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Blair over Iraq meant that the only weapons of mass destruction discovered there were the ones the US and UK themselves dropped on the innocent civilian population. Freedom from torture, innocence until proven guilty and a fair trial have ten years on been replaced with euphemisms such as the interests of security, non-combatants and extraordinary rendition. Far from protecting innocent civilians from the brutal dictators such as Saddam Husain, who used to clumsily murder, abuse and humiliate his own citizens, today the US led alliance have happily taken over the role of oppressor themselves manifest in Guantanamo Bay, Bagram air base and Abu Guraib where such injustices are meted out much more openly and meticulously.
With the forced total withdrawal of all US led forces from Muslim land on the horizon Obama’s attempt to save face by making a big deal over the death of Sheikh Osama Bin Laden has also backfired by further fuelling those fighting the crusader camp who have promised at least 100 operations as revenge and by sending back a tormenting message that another 100 Bin Laden are queuing up to take over the role of America’s enemy number one.
Add to all this the ravenous way in which the war has destroyed the US economy, the many anti-war groups and bodies creating public opinion against the war, the unprecedented rates of soldier suicides, the global contempt for the US and the UK caused by the war, the spread of Al-Qaeda’s ideology among the Muslim youth like a tsunami and one can conclude that the humiliating defeat is effectively complete.
Ironically in the last ten years the biggest factor in radicalizing the youth, inciting Muslims to carry out more suicide bombings against the US and its allies and pushing Muslims towards a much more fundamental and uncompromising understanding of Islam has been the actions of those who had meant to bring these to an end. History will record that the beginning of the end of the American empire and the seeds for the re-establishment of an Islamic State among Muslims began on the 11th of September 2001.
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