A TRAITOR IN BAGHDAD, A TRAITOR IN KABUL

October 19, 2008 at 13:45 (Associate Post, Corrupt Politics)

A traitor in Baghdad, a traitor in Kabul

By Khalid Amayreh

Traitors, irrespective of time and place, are enemies of their own peoples and motherlands. They are also enemies of the most fundamental human morality.

One, of course, should not worship his country. A morally enlightened citizen should refrain from supporting his own country, or more correctly his government if it chooses to do wrong and adopt policies that are manifestly immoral.

The notorious Israeli oppression of the Palestinians and the genocidal American imperialism in Iraq and Afghanistan are two classical examples of criminal policies that good men and women of conscience ought to strongly reject and resist.

Indeed, opposing such policies is the ultimate expression of true patriotism, whereas supporting one’s country -right or wrong- reflects mindless jingoism and moral bankruptcy. This factor ultimately draws the line of distinction between civility and savagery and between enlightenment and primitiveness.

However, moral depravity occurs when citizens of a given country collaborates with foreign invaders to effect goals that are decidedly criminal and evil. Such is the case of the Iraqi government.

Nuri al Maliki, the Prime Minister of Iraq, might think that he is serving the interests of his country by allowing American imperialism to gain a permanent foothold in Iraq.

He might be tempted to argue that many countries around the world are hosting American military bases without having their respective national sovereignty compromised.

He is wrong.

First of all, Iraq is not Japan or even South Korea. The American military presence in Iraq is not designed to help the Iraqis achieve true independence, stability and prosperity.

The American occupation forces are in Iraq in order to destroy Iraq, which they have done to a large extent, torment Iraqis, and transform the land of Harun al Rashid into a virtual Zionist colony serving “ global Jewish-Zionist interests.”

Moreover, the Americans seem hell-bent on arrogating Iraqi oil by turning Iraq into a banana republic, a mere cheap market for American products.

Another important reason behind the American occupation of Iraq is to forestall the potential of Iraq becoming a threat to Zionist military supremacy once again. Otherwise, why would Mossad agents scour Iraq from north to south and from east to west to assassinate top Iraqi scientists, probably in collusion with American, Kurdish and (Iraqi) intelligence services.

In short, the United States wants to destroy or neutralize Iraq on Israel’s behalf. Wasn’t that the main factor behind the American invasion, occupation and virtual destruction of the ancient land of Mesopotamia ?

In truth, the current Iraqi leadership seems to have lost any sense of national honor and dignity. This is obvious from the shocking complacency displayed toward the very country that murdered or caused the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis…all “ because if it is good for America it is worth it,” as the evil-minded Madeline Albright put it several years ago.

Today, the traitor of Baghdad, the Ibn al-Alqami of our time ( Ibn Al-‘Alqami was the vizier of the last Abbasid caliph in Baghdad, Al- Musta’sim, who is accused of opening the gates of Baghdad to the armies of Hulago) is effectively allowing the US to maintain a number of military and air-bases on Iraqi soil which would be used against fellow Arab and Muslim countries, or at least to maintain America’s hegemony over oil fields in the region.

Equally obscene is the Iraqi leader’s initial consent to granting American soldiers who murder and rape Iraqis a virtual immunity from prosecution by Iraqi courts.

What happened to the honor of Iraq and the Iraqi people? Is it being trampled upon, not only by the Zionist-American invaders, but also by Iraq’s own quisling government and its so-called prime minister who doesn’t stop claiming to be serving the national interests of his country and people?

Would any honorable Iraqi, Sunni or Shiite, Arab or non-Arab, Christian or Muslim, accept such humiliating “agreements” that would grant the rapists of our daughters and murderers of our children immunity from prosecution by Iraqi judges?

Are Americans a special breed of people to whom the laws of man and God don’t apply? Would the American Congress and government ever agree to grant a foreigner living in the U.S. immunity from prosecution by American courts in the event he or she committed a felony, or even a misdemeanor, on American soil?

Or is Iraq becoming just another “Palestinian Authority” whereby Nazi-like Israeli soldiers are given a caret blanch to violate Palestinian population centers around-the-clock while thousands of American-trained Palestinian “soldiers” and “officers “are confined to their coops…because the agreements say so!!

And now the traitor of Kabul, Hamid Karzi, the so-called “President of Afghanistan” who represents even a cheaper and more pornographic type of quislings than the traitor of Baghdad.

What else can one speak of a man who probably enjoys watching American and NATO pilots rain death and wreak havoc on innocent Afghani men, women and children sleeping in their mud huts in the Afghan countryside?

Persons, let alone leaders, who behave as such are really scum, vermin and dirty animals that ought to be eradicated.

Well, this is the age of American democracy in the Muslim world. Salam, Shalom, Peace…and the American way!!!