Chapter
6: Genealogy of Islamic terrorism
6-4(47) Axis of evil
Everyone can easily understand the words "Rogue"
and "Axis of evil". US President Bush of Texan pretended as if he was
a sheriff of old Western movies. Considering that he was the strongest leader in
the world, his speech looked like thoughtless. But it was enough for American people.
It is quite the same as President Donald Trump nowadays. Anyway, for the ordinary
US citizens, United States was the sheriff of the world who kept the justice of
God and punished evil.
President Bush's strategy was named Bush Doctrine. The
principle of the doctrine was to confront the "rogue state" that
could spread terrorism and mass destruction weapons. And the doctrine embodied to
do the first-strike for self-defense. He declared that all the countries should
be either on the US side or on the terror’s side.
He adhered the Neo conservatism
prevailing in the modern American society. The advocators of Neoconservatism
(so called Neocon) was a policy group related to the theory of political scientist
Francis Fukuyama who was the author of “The End of History and the Last Man”. In
the Afghan War Neocon joined hands with Islamic power to fight against USSR. During
the Iran-Iraq war US supported even Hussein of Iraqi Sunni regime to defeat Shiites
Iran.
In the Gulf War in
1991, President H.W. Bush (Bush Senior) took military action without hesitation
and repulsed Iraqi troops from Kuwait. But at that time, President H.W. Bush
had to order Allied troops to withdraw from Iraq where they were just around
the corner of Baghdad. It was due to the restriction of the UN resolution that
the military action was permitted only for liberation of Kuwait. President Hussein
scarcely survived. Hussein had kept the domestic power. He empowered military
force and continued the reign of terror. He suppressed the opponents like Shiites
and Kurds.
President George W. Bush, son of H.W. Bush, suspected
Hussein of concealment of weapons of mass destruction and connection with
Al-Qaeda, an international terrorist organization. United States often claimed
military sanctions against Iraq under Bush Doctrine. Not only Russia and China
but also France opposed US proposals at the Security Council of the United
Nations, while Britain joined with the United States. G.W. Bush did not abandon
Neocon’s hard line policy. It was necessary for Bush to overthrow Hussein’s
regime and transform Iraq into a democratic state. It was his father's dream which
could not be realized at the Gulf War.
In March 2003, the
United States formed coalition force with several countries including the UK
and Australia. Coalition force attacked Iraq under the name of "Operation Iraqi
Freedom". US army traditionally had two brave slogans in the battle field.
As in the World War II, US soldiers again repeated two slogans in the war
against Iraq; "Show the Flag!" and "Boots on the ground!".
"Show the flag" means to declare his identity and "Boots on the ground" means to
stand up on the real battlefield. To amalgamate two phrases into one tells that
“Raise up the flag of justice and fight against devils at the front line".
In other words, you should make clear whether you are friend or enemy and to confront
the enemy with courage in the battlefield. President G.W. Bush who was the descendant
of Texas cowboy deemed his role as a cavalry captain who kicked out American Indians
(now referred to as "Native American" as an anti-discriminatory word).
Even if
there were no such inspiring slogans, the Iraqi would be defeated by coalition
forces due to their superior arms and logistics. The battle had finished after
two months. President Bush declared the termination of battle on the nuclear
aircraft carrier "Abraham Lincoln” in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf.
Unfortunately,
the investigation carried out after the war could find no mass destruction
weapons. Coalition forces could find no reason to justify the Iraq war. Even
after arresting Sadam Hussein and putting him on the death penalty, security in
Iraq did not recover at all. In return sectarian and tribal conflicts took
place and security of Iraq became getting worse. In 2011 President Obama finally
declared that the war in Iraq was over. All US troops withdrew from Iraq. But withdrawal
of US army didn’t mean the end of war in Iraq.
IS (Islamic
States) invaded from Syria to the northern part of Iraq just after the
withdrawal of US troops.
(To be continued
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By Areha Kazuya
E-mail: areha_kazuya@jcom.home.ne.jp
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