There was a photograph in an issue of Time magazine. Barack Obama was walking alone on the Great Wall of China. After he took charge, specialists’ view was Afghanistan presented him with a greater challenge than Iraq. I can understand that viewpoint in a simple way. In Afghanistan, you can not win a war. Probably,USA can not win in Iraq also but Afghanistan is different. My father told me something when Mr. Bush Jr. decided to operate military operations in Afghanistan. I was told that no power could ever come from outside and dominated Afghanistan. The geographical structure of the country is such. But US has to pull out of that place for different reasons altogether.
- They went to Afghanistan in search of Osama Bin Laden who is dead now.
- They are still staying there supposedly because they want to contribute to the democratically re formation of the country and had they pulled out earlier, the reformation would come under serious threat from the Taliban, according to USA.
- But a foreign troop can not stay forever in an alien land and contribute to a nation’s democracy specially if there is radical pressure on its government of proving the reasonable ways of the war at the first place.
Now this is a strange world we live in. Half of the world claim that Bush sent his troops to Iraq for the fact Iraq has the big oil reserve. And no, the other half also does not say that Saddam possessed weapon of mass destruction when the attacks were led. But if I say these in clear words, that maybe a crime in this world. Maybe, our website will get some off-air time as well.
Our problem is that we live in a practical world and we try to be impractical. Recently, Obama’s not speaking for a free Palestine caught much criticism round the globe. Cartoonists had a field day and used all their wit in a day flat out. But did anybody think that could Obama do that? Was it in his powers?
I have no clue what the UN forces are doing in Libya and do not have any idea if the Gaddafi loyalists are freedom fighters or not. But one thing I am sure of. We defy practical world in the words used in world politics. We often talk and act like this planet was born yesterday and there has been no norm on which politics and diplomacy work here.
Some of our impossibly possible wishes:
Suddenly, one day, USA leaves out the policies of being the no.1 super power in the world.
Suddenly all Muslims will agree on how to practice their religion in the contradictions among them about violence and non violence.
Many countries will nurture, improve, and protect their nuclear weapons and will never use them.
There will be no hunger in Africa from tomorrow.
There will never be any natural disaster in this planet again (this line is seriously fun intended).
Yeah, maybe we all are impractically practical.
Faiyaz Rahman is the chief editor at specialtake.com, speciallysports.com, and moviepromo.net
