Robert Fantina in his article “A colony by any other name” states the New York Times report about the new US demands from Iraq. He says that Bush’s vision of democratic Iraq that “the Bush administration will insist that the government in Baghdad give the United States broad authority to conduct combat operations and guarantee civilian contractors specific legal protections from Iraqi law.”
This statement brings forth two alarming concepts that should alarm the United Nations, Halls of Congress and the Arab World. Gaining broader authority to start combat action in Afghanistan and Iraq was easy with the backing of republican controlled congress. Readers must be wandering about the reaction of United Nations. The body has very little impact when America has veto power in the system. There is little which can be done to stop Mr. Bush from imperial destruction of countries in question. Member nations will not give in easily to United State’s new demands but this is achievable through the congress and the military. Invading nations give themselves all the rights to roughshod over the citizens of the invaded nation. The world has witnessed the horrifying scenes of abuse and violations of human rights in past. “Germany invaded Poland, Austria, France and other nations during World War II, it, like the U.S. today, simply gave itself the authority to do so. When Russia invaded Afghanistan it was simply, like the U.S., giving itself the authority to invade a sovereign nation. Even when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, it had simply granted itself the right to do so, although long-standing disputes over borders and oil were the reason for that invasion. The U.S. was less amenable to the idea of such an invasion at that time than it has been more recently.” These violations not only creates disturbance in the invaded countries but also the neighbouring nations suffer equally. As the distress and violations increase in the invaded countries people flee to the safety of neighbouring nations. Unlike U.S. citizens many of Iraq’s neighbouring countries have experience the unrest and burdened economies when Iraqi nationals fled their country to find safety.The second point which makes us ponder is the fact that U.S. contractors in liberated Iraq are to be provided with protection from Iraqi law. Any logical mind will wonder that why should a foreigners be allowed to violate the local laws. Cont…