This article do have something we all should think, how west has used us so far and how stupid we have proved ourselves by falling directly into the ****-hole…it is not only Arabs, but us South Asians who seems to have infinite thirst of each others blood…
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?storyid=1093357893
Haven’t they done enough damage to Middle East?
** Arab News - **
(MENAFN - Arab News) Until the early 20th century, the only interest the West took in the Middle East was either as a religious outpost or as a trade route to be secured by the most economical means.
After Arabs helped the Allies win World War I, however, they were rewarded by Western occupation and the gradual exporting of many Western problems, foremost of which of course has been the setting up of a state for then-destitute Jewish refugees in Palestine.
Today the trail of chaos and destabilization runs from Israel, in the heart of the Middle East, all the way through Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan to Pakistan. To the average eye, it can only look as though the West has purposely become involved in situations across the area for the purpose of destabilizing the region and avoiding the rise of any power capable of challenging Western regional interests. The most obvious signal we see today is Western uproar against potential Iranian nuclear programs, while Israel was quietly and unofficially accepted into the nuclear club years ago.
Of course, President John Kennedy was not too happy when he found out about a secret Israeli nuclear program supported by the French, but America and the Western press rapidly accepted that development after the 1967 War when it became held with some certainty that Israel possessed atomic weapons, or at the least the capability to produce them at very short notice. The mere rumor, however, of an Iraqi bomb �€" unfounded as it turned out �€" led to the loss of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives and thousands of both Americans and European too. And today, rather than work for a WMD-free Middle East, all talk is about potential airstrikes on Iran.
In a region so crucial to world economic and political stability, it would make eminent sense to pursue the policy most likely to pacify the region as a whole and avoid future upheaval. A United Nations resolution calling for a Middle East free of all weapons of mass destruction, with a show of honest political will from the United States, could be enough to give the powers of peace and moderation in the region the moral and strategic edge. Instead, the power of the crazies in Iran is being buttressed by the West, and any attempt to cut Iranian nuclear ambitions down to size are assured of a more or less disastrous outcome.
As long as the West continues to destabilize the region, by playing Palestinian factions against each other, fomenting Shiite-Sunni conflict in an area where it was a nonissue before, pitting “moderate” and “extremist” forces against each other across the board, and likely pushing toward the dismantling not only of Iraq but also of Sudan, one can only conclude that they see it as their continued interest to divide and conquer from afar. So many Iraqi lives, archaeological treasures, and such potential have been laid to waste by Western interference and greed.
Instead of dismantling countries and livelihoods in the Middle East, the United States and the West should consider dismantling threats and weapons of mass destruction instead, beginning with the Israeli atomic arsenal. If South Africa could come to its senses, change its ways and do away with its atomic capability, then why should America not be able to create the framework for Israel to do the same? It is certainly better than rushing to war and risking ever greater destabilization of the situation and of the interests the West holds here.
The West has done enough damage to our region. It is time for them to wake up and reconsider the destructive approach they have taken for almost a century now. The people of the region will certainly not sit in silence at this one-sided Western behavior and the chaos they have already wreaked. The West must prove its good intentions not through boots and missiles, but through transparency and clear signs that the priority for us all is peace and stability.
By Walid Alabyad