Date: September 30th 2005

. Can one win a mortal combat with one hand cuffed? Fighting a mortal combat with one hand tied behind is the situation today with most of the nations that are afflicted with the challenge of Terrorism.

From: newsonterror <newsonterror@yahoo.com.sg>; Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005

Fighting a mortal combat with one hand tied behind is the situation
today with most of the nations that are afflicted with the challenge
of Terrorism. Russia suffered Beslan, blown up airliners, hostage
crises at the Moscow theatre; but it still helps Iran to build
nuclear facilities and threatens to spike Western efforts to refer
Iran to the Security Council for Sanctions. Russia want to continue
having its honeymoon with Syria and also wants a relationship with
the PA (Palestinian Authority) promising to supply it with weaponry
and equipment that could be used against Israel. And where do the
loyalties of the Iranian Mullahs, Syrian Baathists and the
Palestinians
lie?

With the Russians or with the terrorists attacking Russia? The answer
is obvious, except to the foggy vision of the Russian leaders! China
has its own goose to roast with the Iranians. China has valid
economic reasons to build bridges with Iran. China's energy deficit
economy needs oil supplies badly and Iran has surplus of oil. And so
China wants to support the Iranian Mullahs at the UN, despite the
Uighur (Uygur) terrorists fighting to secede from China to form a
separate Eastern Turkestan. Although China keep its happenings under
warps helped by its state controlled media, some events of bomb
blasts and police action against terrorists do seep out.

Despite these problems, China also follows a global policy to winking
at the depredations of terrorists across the globe and tries to be an
uninterested bystander in the war on terror whenever it is not
actively though unintentionally helping out the cause of terrorism by
defending Iran at the UN. India is the third case of a rising economy
that is energy starved and wants to build bridges (pipelines) to let
the oil flow from Yadavaran Refinery in Iran to India. That this
pipeline would be blown up by the Al Qaeda terrorists and Balouch
fighters in Pakistan, escapes India's attention. India has recently
voted in favor of the IAEA resolution on Iran, but India's commitment
remains wavering at best. India faces a bloodied terrorist insurgency
in its northernmost province of Kashmir, but when it comes to Iran
who is a supporter of Islamist terror, India is ambivalent! Why so?

Why is it that even Western nations who are subject to the most
dramatic terror attacks take an ambivalent approach when confronting
terrorism, especially when its rivals are facing the same challenge?
Why does the US administration, at least till recently raise the
bogey of human rights violations in Chechnya to pin down rival
Russia, and also make strange noises when Uzbekistan puts down
Islamist insurgency with a strong hand? Who could be an ally of the
USA, the non-Islamist government of Karimov or the Islamists who want
to replace his government with an Islamist Caliphate?

The US administration has behaved in a ham headed manner on this
issue as on many others too. The US wants Israel to follow the
roadmap toward a two state solution where a Jewish and a Muslim state
co-exist peacefully in the Middle East - as if Muslim have ever
existed peacefully with anyone! The EU also puts similar pressure on
Israel to bend backwards on the Palestinian issue. And with whom do
the loyalties of the Palestinians lie with the US and EU or the
terrorists who bedevil them? The answer was oud and clear on 9/11
when Palestinians went about hooting in joy and distributing candy.

But the US is blind to this reality and keeps pushing the hapless
Sharon to extend concessions to the Palestinian terrorists. The Brits
who suffered on 7/7, followed a holier than thou policy while
granting asylum to terrorists from across the globe, and turned a
Nelson's eye on their depredations in the UK calling for murder of
the infidels (Brits among them). In an ironical way, 7/7 has been the
saving grace (no pun intended on the term saving).

The Brits have now opened their a wee bit, to deport the most rabid
among the terrorists, but reports say that there are thousands of
Muslims who belong to sleeper cells and are waiting for a green
signal to blow themselves up and take as many as they can with them.
An objective observer would be foxed as to why the administrations
from as varied countries as China, UK, Russia, India, USA all follow
double standards when they face terrorism. In Chechnya there is for
the USA a question of human rights violation, when the US itself is
subject to the worst form of terror attacks. For Russia Iran needs to
be given the right to nuclear technology, while Russian school kids
are murdered by Islamists. China would veto the resolution imposing
sanctions on Iran, while the Han Chinese are murdered in Xinjiang.
Why so?

India would grumble about non-alignment and be very reluctant to
oppose Iran's nuclear ambitions when Indians are being murdered in
Kashmir and in the recurrent terrorists attacks in India. Why? The
Brits are magnanimous to extend the tenets of the Magna Carta to
those who consider murdering Brits to be their right and aholy duty!
Why?

The answer is that all the leading governments of the globe have a
narrow view of the global problem of terrorism. When it pinches them,
they scream "Ouch", but when it pinches others, they call for
restraint or dignify terrorism by asking for the elimination of the
causes of terrorism, call for restraint and respect for the human
rights of the terrorists! And what do the terrorists say: They call
for death to all infidels. The terrorists are paranoid and united in
their murderous objective across the globe. It is only the response
to this unitary challenge of terrorism that is disjointed. And as
long as this response is also not as unitary and as determined as the
challenge f terrorism, there is no hope for an early or easy victory
over the challenge of Islamic Terrorism. The hand that is tied with
the threads of narrow nationalistic opportunism and mutual rivalries
has to be released so that we can grapple manfully with Islamic
Terrorism and save human civilization from the mortal challenge of
Islamic Terror.

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