Playing with double standards in dealing with terrorism!

Today when the whole knows who is behind all the terrorism and nuclear proliferation, why the two great countries are playing double game? Why they are neglecting it? What’s the reason? USA and Britain are playing with double standards in their so called global war against terrorism. They need to reformulate their strategies.

Today, the word "Terrorism" is not at all new to anyone among us. At least, for India, the word "Terrorism" is never new and had never been a phenomenon. India is fighting with terrorism right from the beginning when British broke India into pieces. Cross border terrorism has always tried to break the Indian backbone either by killing innocents or by using the deadly weapon of religion. For nearly fifteen to twenty years India is suffering from terrorism, India has lost more than 65,000 innocent people in the carnage triggered by terrorism. This all has direct connection with Pakistan backing terrorists.

The country on one hand is nourishing terrorism against India, and on the other hand it is showing to be ready for the so-called war against terrorism, this is nothing but the cruelest joke on humanity. This is nothing but an irony, that the country, which is an epicenter of terrorism, is being seen as the greatest ally of USA fighting global terrorism. The terrorist who masterminded the terrorist attack on New York and Washington on September the 9th, and perhaps would have caused more damage than any one can think, is originated from the same country and the same pool of terrorism. Pakistan nurtured the terrorism in the form of Taliban and allowed the enemy of humankind to gather strength. Once stated by Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Osama bin Laden may be hiding somewhere in Pakistan.

All the way, India always had tried to attract the attention of the world towards the bare truth that the terrorists trained in the PoK are being sent in India across the border to indulge in bloodbath. US came to know the brutality of the terrorism only when it faced it in the form of 9/11 attacks, which struck at its heart in the most diabolic manner. The attack was an eye opener for US, but it could never learn that if you are allowing something grow beyond control, it can harm yourself sometime. At one strike only the twin towers were reduced to debris and US then came to know that even if the country is strong militarily, cannot survive this kind of attacks. Once came to know that its fortress is no more impregnable as it always thought, US raised its power to demolish the terrorist kingpin and the people surrounding him, Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. Once bitten and twice shy, US now even looking at anyone who enters it’s shores with the close observation and believes in taking no chance at all. But in this so-called fight against terrorism, US forgot to look for the godfather of the terrorism and terrorist, the nation, which nourished Osama and Al-Qaeda. Instead, US joined hands with Pakistan to fight against its own product of terrorism.

Once stated by one US Ambassador to India that the global terrorism would never come to end until and unless the cross border terrorism, which is suffering India, is crushed and tackled. But President Mr. George W. Bush is living in the ivory tower and gone to the extent of offering the red carpet to the person who is the main architect of the terrorism, all that US is fighting with – by transporting the terrorism to the parts of world, nuclear proliferation and like. I never understood the main aim of US, whatever US is doing right at the position, it is clearly visible that US is having double standards regarding the terrorism, nuclear proliferation, US is formulating its foreign policy which suits its interest most. In one go, it destroyed Iraq, and till the date no trace of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons has been found. On one hand, US had a war of words with North Korea; it suspected Iran and even proved to be right against North Korea and Iran of the nuclear programme of the latter. USA is well aware that Pakistan has played the role in nuclear proliferation, and still has chosen to ignore it. Recently on the foreign tour, Pakistan president Gen. Pervez Musharraf said that Pakistan would be forced to press the nuclear button if it found itself losing in the conventional war against India. USA and UK, even the world has chosen to remain silence in this matter. How could USA expect peace in the South Asia when it openly supports a terrorist state that harbors the largest number of terrorist outfits?

Nurturing the devil can cause the most unwanted catastrophes. And US will have to suffer this; the future historians would give the proof of this. Ignoring India’s plight over the terrorism by rest of the world would mean that the global war against terrorism is nothing but a myth. This is the most dangerous theory India cannot accept. A terrorist attack in Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam, Casablanca, Bali, Riyadh or Istanbul was given undue publicity, but the fact that more than 65,000 citizens – women, children, politicians, members of Armed Forces and their families, minority Hindus – have been killed by well trained terrorists in the course of 15 years is no terrorism! Why should India not feel that the so-called global war against the terrorism is just a fake to suit the interests of few nations? It is a pity that USA and Britain, claiming to be great democracies, are giving all out support to a naked military dictatorship that seeks to destabilize the largest democracy in the world through the lethal weapon of terrorism.

If USA and Britain wants peace in world, then they should leave the double standards they are using, and should try look at the world with one eye without partiality.