USA bent on fighting from both sides in af-pak sector war
News&Views Feb 2010
Feb 11 2010
Reasons for Current Spread of Terrorism
USA is bent on fighting from both sides in af-pak sector war
I wrote the following comment in a discussion on hub pages. The initiator, a hubber from Pakistan had wondered why terrorism today is spread from poor and Muslim countries. He was then concluding that terrorism will go away once poverty is removed. I wrote the following comment. Let me put it in the hub also. Looking forward to your views on it. I am modifying my comments slightly to make it more suitable for a hub.
My comment
Poor People are not real cause of terrorism
Your final words are good. Indeed, if some basic needs of life are
satisfied then average persons may not take trouble to do useless things
which do not affect their lives, certainly not violent acts. This is
the model followed in western Europe and USA. They have managed to keep
satisfaction of this type for an average person.
But your initial assessment about reasons for spread of terrorism are in
reverse direction. When you imply terrorism is only because of poor
people, you are looking only at foot soldiers who just now have no
option but to follow their masters.
Real cause of current spread of terrorism
Spread of terrorism today has very little to do with Muslim religion or poor
people. Main cause of spread of terrorism today is that many Muslim
countries are ruled by Army or feudal lords. For example Pakistan has
now democracy but real rulers are mainly army top guys and a few feudal
lords. Saudi Arabia is another example. These rulers have decided that
they can never have technological economic capacity to fight
conventional wars or to stop spread of development in their country,
which may result in erosion in their hold over masses in their country. It seems that then they decided that only way they can have their power in their own
country as well as in other countries is by having proxy wars using
terrorism and instigating religious sentiments among masses to have
support for such wars. For this to happen they do not mind even people
in their own country getting killed.
Extremism in Pakistani society started from upper middle class
Many articles in Pakistani press point out that real extremism in
their society also started from upper middle class and mainly army
officers.
(see links below for three articles from well known Pakistani writers giving an
exceptionally good analysis of current situation in Pakistan on
evolution of extremism in their society and also an interesting hub on the same topic by Perrya)
It is these rulers who are also bent on keeping main population there
uneducated and poor and using them as a tool. Creating Muslim religious
sentiments to find foot soldiers all over world is also being used by
them as a tool to create an international proxy war set up. One can
also see that the difference in the manner in which they fight terrorists and western
people do, reflects this phenomena. While western countries do take a lot
of care to decrease civilian deaths using technological tools, Pakistani
army does not mind even carpet bombing areas in their own country,
resulting in mass casualties and displacements. Many writers from
Pakistan have recorded miseries this has caused.
Incapacity of India or China and quagmires of USA and West European countries
It is unfortunate that large countries of the region like India,
China are now not properly organized or managed. Thus they do not have time being capacity or strategy to fight these rulers
and help economically the actual population in these countries. The
western countries have got involved, specially after 9/11, in fighting
only foot soldiers and are in the name of helping population in these
countries helping and paying bribes to only these top rulers. Even
earlier than 9/11 they were playing the same game.
USA is now bent on fighting in af-pak sector of war from both sides
The strategies of USA and Western European countries now seem to be
lost in corruption in their own set up and a quagmire. They are
fighting the foot soldiers and at the same time helping these top rulers
who are organizing these foot soldiers against them. Thus they seem to
be bent on fighting in af-pak sector war from both sides! Until they
resolve to put their act in a proper perspective, chances are very less
that the problem will get solved.
Links to three articles with exceptionally good analysis on rise of extremism and current situation by Pakistani writers
