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24-09-04, 22:17
Bush Ambush
By Ghulam Muhammed
Al-Jazeerah, September 24, 2004
The recent slapping of the wrist of President Bush by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Pakistani President Parvez Musharraf cannot impress the world, as both have been known collaborators of the US President.
Observers have no difficulty in making out the contours of a new Bush policy to allow his known collaborators, to work up their own separate
credibility restoration at the expense of the discredited US policies, with the more sinister objective of using both for further manipulations of the world events as per American agenda.
The two most sensitive spots that are the epicenter of world disasters, namely Israel and Iraq, need fresh initiatives as the Bush and Neo-con policies have come to a dead-end.
However, the cast of characters, chosen by Bush to do his proxy biddings, has themselves feet of clay and will not be able to deliver, unless Bush himself gathers sufficient courage to publicly accept his mistakes and declares his intention to change course.
The most surprising element is the timing of this new phenomenal change of strategy in view of the coming Nov. 2 US Presidential elections. It seems the pressures mounting on Bush are so daunting, that he needs outside support of the contrived kind, to attempt so drastic change of policy, as not to wait out the outcome of the Presidential elections.
The world will definitely welcome any overt or covert US move to abide by the strong positions enunciated by both Kofi Annan and President Musharraf, provided the whole hoopla is not just media exercise to win brownie points from targeted quarters.
By Ghulam Muhammed
Al-Jazeerah, September 24, 2004
The recent slapping of the wrist of President Bush by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Pakistani President Parvez Musharraf cannot impress the world, as both have been known collaborators of the US President.
Observers have no difficulty in making out the contours of a new Bush policy to allow his known collaborators, to work up their own separate
credibility restoration at the expense of the discredited US policies, with the more sinister objective of using both for further manipulations of the world events as per American agenda.
The two most sensitive spots that are the epicenter of world disasters, namely Israel and Iraq, need fresh initiatives as the Bush and Neo-con policies have come to a dead-end.
However, the cast of characters, chosen by Bush to do his proxy biddings, has themselves feet of clay and will not be able to deliver, unless Bush himself gathers sufficient courage to publicly accept his mistakes and declares his intention to change course.
The most surprising element is the timing of this new phenomenal change of strategy in view of the coming Nov. 2 US Presidential elections. It seems the pressures mounting on Bush are so daunting, that he needs outside support of the contrived kind, to attempt so drastic change of policy, as not to wait out the outcome of the Presidential elections.
The world will definitely welcome any overt or covert US move to abide by the strong positions enunciated by both Kofi Annan and President Musharraf, provided the whole hoopla is not just media exercise to win brownie points from targeted quarters.