Gulf! Gulf! Wolf!

Saddam has been hanged. A person who had lost his share of tid-bits on prime time is back with a bang! Imagine, a person who could barely cross the borders of his own country is now a more (in)famous imperialist than Hitler himself. The baffled Historians of the 20th century must now be digging around the WTC rubble to bury the Roosevelt-Churchill saga. And Hitler must be turning like a turbine in his grave ruing the absence of George Bush (and CNN) during WWII.

A man condemned by all, not even a popular leader, considered an oil-rich military imperialist at the most is suddenly a mascot of Muslim (ok Sunni!) pride throughout the world. However hard the US media may mock at Islam and its followers, the reality is that they exist, in huge numbers and have sufficient power to influence the world politics, even if we ignore the phenomenon of terrorism. And if the Iraq war was a disaster, Saddam's death would anyday be termed as a catastrophe in United States' attempts to make amends for all its tomfoolery in the Gulf. If the present US thinktank thinks that it can wipe out terrorism from the world, I'd say there is no 'tank' amongst the US foreign policy drivers who can 'think'! Had Saddam or Bin Laden been the leaders of terrorism, terror would have been dead by now. I liken these two to the Loch Ness monster and the Dragon respectively - They are ghoulish and powerful but they exist only as fairytale creatures.

Terrorism is an anti-social expression of a clash between huge many things. Two of these are surely the Oil capitalists and imperial suppression of the Islamic free thinking. The former is an external threat while the latter is an internal malaise of the Islamic world. Hence, if the American media paints it as a clash between the West and the Islam, it is fooling nobody except its popcorn chewing audience for whom Saddam's imperialism evokes only as much fear as a power outage during Everybody Loves Raymond.

Yes sir. Before 9/11 terrorism was just pop corn stuff for audiences in US - No more than a bunch of gun toting maniacs who could be subdued by their very own "Die Hard" Bruce Willis. As long as they had Bruce Willis there was no fear. Instead came George Bush, the senior, as the President. Saddam Hussein, for long funded by CIA and the US oil cartel in his adventures against Iran and the other oil/gas rich anti-american dispositions, suddenly discovered that he himself was the golden goose. So, rather than allowing Americans to take the golden eggs one by one, he decided tear open his own belly to take all the golden eggs - He invaded Kuwait. For West, Saddam was a perfect Trojan horse which had kept countries like Iran at bay. Suddenly, the Trojan horse had turned into a Godzilla. Hence, began the world's maximum ad-revenue generating war, the Gulf war. Godzilla was subdued.

Remember, all this while Mr. Saddam was committing all those crimes culpability for which was used to hang him today! Nobody cared to even slap him. Had justice been meted out to him then and there, he would not have died a martyr for anybody.

Anyway, for the next 8 years Mr. Clinton decided to act more sensibly and played sanction-sanction and oil-for-food with Saddam. While the world had got over Iraq and was thinking more about Y2K and the dotcom bubble, it had forgotten that the Texas ranches had more than one bush. In came the new Bush with Gulf 2000. Iraq was back on the menu. Saddam, then, was no more powerful than H.D. Deve Gowda was in Delhi, still, with US attention he got his prime time back. In the meanwhile 9/11 happened and there was something that US needed to do. For one thing, Bin Laden seemed too insignificant an enemy for CNN to keep chanting about all through the day. Bin Laden, for all his wealth and rhetoric would have seemed a stupid enemy to the US audience. US, with all its Pentagon and NASA would seem fighting a man, riding a donkey in Kabul. In Aesops' fables okay, but for Prime time CNN that would have meant hurting US pride. So, Saddam was taken out of the cupboard, dusted, bathed, brushed and made ready for his role as the most popular doll after Barbie. He was shown unsheathing swords, firing guns in the air and moving around in his military gear once again. And then started the mission impossible to locate the Biological weapons that Mr. Barbie was supposed to have stacked in his loins. Let alone biological weapons they could not even locate his loincloth - He was wearing none. So, what came off it?

Out of all this chasing a tortoise in a Ferrari, came nothing.
Note the twist in the tale: The second Gulf war started on the premise of finding and destroying biological weapons. Nothing was found. So, the correct thing would have been to tender an apology and move out. Instead, they play the drama of democratisation of Iraq and the prosecution of Saddam. One thing, no sane democracy can run in a rabid country like Iraq. They need a dictator! Second, this war was only about the "bio" weapons. Why this sudden urge to prosecute Saddam, when all this while during the past two decades, he was committing all these atrocities right under the american noses? If democracy is the real motive why not try China or Pakistan, which have more power at their disposal to harm this world?
During World War II, Roosevelt had written the script to catapult a reclusive America to the position of the world's leader, Bush has undone it all to lose for America the near-legitimacy it had to work as the unambiguous leader of all the nations. Now, even China will have the gumption to call America, a rogue country. Imagine, this is what has been done to undo the American supremacy!

This incident would go down in the history as the stupidest thing America ever did. They gained nothing and instead made a warrior out of a stupid gun-toting warlord!

Hello, my dear Americans? Where have those Harvard, Yale products gone? Is this the best your imagination can produce? Isnt it a shame that the country which has shaped one full century of the present world's fortunes, has not shown even as good an imagination in shaping its foreign policy as a Horse does in looking for grass?