Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan & Syria. What do they all have in common? predominantly they are Muslim countries, all in the Middle East, and they all have natural wealth and resources. However, there is something tragic and unjust that all these countries share, that is that they are in the middle of the power games between The Western Word and Russia and China, two sides of a conflict that has to manufacture discord and disunity in order to maintain the existence of those societies, their values, their economies and their sense of who they are.
In the current time America, that nation which countries in The Western World seems to follow like blind sheep, could have come to an agreement with Russia at the UN to let chemical weapons inspectors into Syria to assess the source of chemical weapons. In like manner, Russia could have agreed to the Americans demands to achieve the same end. But unfortunately the main issue for these nations isn’t the death of innocent people, or the use of chemical weapons, especially when you consider the utter hypocrisy of nations who in their warmongering have slain many thousands of people as “collateral damage” on many occasions, by dropping bombs, even nuclear bombs which killed many more people in an instant. No, their main concern is their own pride, and their pride creates a bridge between them which will never join in the middle, and because of this, they can will never work together on issues like this, and there always will be a stand-off with one side blaming the other. As a result of this the truth will never be known until it is too late, just like Iraq, just like the many other times these when the ineffective diplomats fail in their discussions and the unverified and untested suspicions pushed out by these nations via the media become as good as fact. It will only be after many more innocent people are killed in futile strikes aimed at people who are rarely caught by them, and at chemical or nuclear resources that are often simply rebuilt, after more families are made homeless, and more refugees are created, that we will find that those very same nations that held up the investigations ALL played their parts in supplying and training people in that region to be their puppets in their power games.
On and on it goes, and each time it seems like it’s the first time. “Lessons will be learned”, and they always say, we will put in place measures to see this can never happen again. Yet the damage these nations do every time, destroys people lives, and not only that, shows contempt for life, as we vdebate about whether we allow entry to our nations those very same refugees that we cause to become refugees by our reckless “foreign policy”, greed and warmongering, pampering our self-interest under the guise of world security.
It utterly disgusts me that nations who can put people on the moon, orbit space with amazing technology for communication, create new land and hold back the sea, formulate infinitely complex agreements for making money, and even at the level of the everyday person on the street, achieve so much both individually and collectively; can achieve so little when it comes to creating peace, and seem so powerless when it comes to saving people’s lives, and ensuring justice.
In a world where our leaders have given up – if they even truly cared in the first place – and feel it is easier to see people die meaningless and senseless deaths, than to stand up for their rights, life itself has no worth. If we are entrusting the governance of our societies to people who act with such contempt, perhaps this situation is what we all deserve.