By Padmini Arhant
In the twenty first century, the war is interestingly waged in Islamic nations around the world.
Beginning with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Palestinian Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem, Yemen, Chechnya, Somalia and Sudan with skirmishes in Central Asia as seen in the recent Kyrgyzstan with Uzbek Muslims largely massacred in ethnic violence –
Terrorism and insurgencies are the by-product of relentless warfare and foreign policies fostering political instability in turn exacerbating economic and social development.
The trend is prevalent to date.
Afghanistan – The former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney started the war in 2001 declaring the terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden will be captured “dead or alive.”
Even the message resonated in the 2008 Presidential campaign with Senator John McCain as the Republican Presidential candidate pledging -
“I will follow Osama Bin Laden to the gates of hell.”
The Democratic Presidential candidate, the then Senator Barack Obama essentially repeated his predecessor’s rhetoric –
“Bush had earlier vowed to catch bin Laden “Dead or Alive,” and … “My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him. …”
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Padmini Arhant
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