Is it our war?

By General Retd Mirza Aslam Beg | Published: October 12, 2008

At the height of his 'power', General Pervez Musharraf decided to join USA, in their War on Afghanistan, in 2001 and invited a cross section of the political leaders, the civil and military bureaucrats, some intellectuals and analysts, the basic objective being to explain the 'logic' of his decision. I was also invited with one such group. After a long monologue spreading over three hours, he solicited my views.  I said: "This is not our war, because it is immoral, unconstitutional, and unethical, as we have no enmity with the people of Afghanistan. They have done no harm to us." I further added: "Taliban would not be defeated. They would withdraw to regroup and re-organise themselves for the final victory till every occupation soldier was ousted from the soil of Afghanistan. I made it very explicit; "that after the occupation of Afghanistan, the war will spill over into our tribal areas, compelling us to fight in our own territory. It will then be our war, with serious consequences. And the worst that could happen in its wake that joining the war, would amount to bartering away the blood of our martyrs - a sin of such magnitude that, Allah will never forgive us." Musharraf was dumb-founded. He said something, which I could not comprehend. This proved to be my last meeting with him. Has this war, really become our war? Let us examine.
During the past 28 years, the global and regional events have left indelible imprints on the freedom struggle of Afghanistan and on the adjoining border regions of Pakistan. The aggression by USA has caused the death of more than five million innocent Muslims in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq alone, in pursuit of American doctrine of global primacy and pre-eminence. As a consequence, there emerged the Islamic Resistance, opposing such aggression and in so doing it has drawn the new contours of global power equation.
The dismantling of the Soviet Empire in 1989 ignited the urge in the USA to preside over the affairs of the world single-handedly. But this dream got shattered, within a short span of 15 years, which is analogous to the grand ambitions of Hitler's concept of Lebensraum - proclaiming 'Germans, the superior race, as the legitimate rulers of the world'. The only difference being that all the powers of the world then united to defeat Hitler's hegemonic ambitions. In the case of USA, it is the Islamic Resistance, the only opposition, the ill-equipped foot soldiers, operating as "shadow armies led by committed believers," which has proved detrimental to USA's imperial ambitions - The Islamic Resistance created with the courtesy of the United States, against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan "were more than sixty thousand mujahideen fighters, drawn from seventy countries of the world."
Another forty thousand came from Pakistan. This Islamic Resistance since has accomplished incredible feat of defeating the American dream of Greater Israel and the design to restructure the Greater Middle East. It broke the myth of invincibility of Israel after a humiliating military debacle in Lebanon. It has humbled the Americans in Iraq, European Union and USA in Afghanistan. All the great aggressors of the world have been contained and defeated. They are freedom fighters, not terrorists, as the West would make us believe, although some terrorist elements have entered into their ranks, who are distinct by their heinous acts of crime and terror.

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