Moment of truth for US
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Less than a month is left to the anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the WTO Twin Towers in New York – the day when fear took over the world and people from all over the world were saddened over the deaths of 3,000 innocent American citizens who fell victim to terrorists who had previously been supported by the CIA.
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9/11 was a storm which the CIA had created its winds in the 1980s and Americans experienced its devastation in the 2000s. While 9/11 was a terrible tragedy, it created the will to fight terrorism across the globe.
All world leaders, thinkers, intellectuals and journalists began talking about fighting terrorism and terrorists. From the ashes of the twin towers, the hope for a global anti-terrorism movement sprang up because this time it was the Americans who had fallen victim to terrorism and the US government could for once become a forerunner in this anti-violence movement.
This ray of hope was lost forever when in a hasty, violent and unilateral move, the US and its allies, spearheaded by Britain, militarily attacked Afghanistan and then Iraq.
The US politicians proved that even a tragic incident such as 9/11 cannot awaken their conscience to fight terrorism across the globe with honesty. Just as skin, color, nationality and political orientation must not play a role in safeguarding human rights these factors should not affect the fight against terrorism.
The US behavior since 2001 has shown that its interpretation of human rights is one-sided, revolves around America and is West-oriented just like its counterterrorism efforts.
The US has divided the world into two categories; those allied with Washington and the non-allied. The US considers safeguarding human rights necessary for its allies. To prove this point, one only needs to look at what is happening in Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
After a period of relative calm, these countries have been witnessing an increasing number of bombings, the killing of women and children and mutilation of civilians in the past few weeks.
While the problem is clear and it is evident who is funding these terrorists, Western governments particularly the US continue their unilateral policy of sponsoring these major threats to humanity.
As an example one can point to The Guardian report in which former US Ambassador to Iraq Christopher R. Hill in a 24 September 2009 fax informed the US State Department of Riyadh’s role in assassinations in Iraq.
Such reports have not caused Washington to change its policies and the reason for this irresponsible US behavior is that Riyadh is an ally in the Middle East and Persian Gulf, and therefore, it has a mission from the US to become the center of exporting terror, violence and hatred.
The representatives of the Saudi government have permission to burn humans alive in Syria and eat the hearts of Syrian soldiers. They are allowed to cut off the noses and ears of schoolgirls in Pakistan and Afghanistan and to carry out bombings in Iraq in the guise of Salafi and Takfiri groups.
The US government does nothing about this because it is more worried about the billions of dollars of Saudi capital in US banks.
Today, the US should be pursuing the fight against terrorism and terrorists instead of framing countries like Iran and imposing inhumane sanctions against Iranians.
If oil money is not deposited into the bank accounts of terrorist for one day they will not be able to carry out their vicious acts.
A look at history shows that hope and awareness are what help nations pass through dark times in the hopes that one day the US will join peace-seeking and anti-terrorism countries in the fight against terrorists so that the people of the Middle East would no longer have to witness the deaths and injury of innocents in the region with bombs, made in Western factories and funded by the oil money of certain Persian Gulf littoral states.
