AMERICAN JIHAD FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE

The end of the cold war between Russia and the United states saw the emergence of one power and the graduation of one super power to a Hyper Power. That Hyper Power is the USA. A hyperpower, also called an omnipower, is a state that is militarily, economically, and technologically dominant on the world stage and after the defeat of the Soviet Union by the Afghans and its collapse the only world power which qualifies for this title is the United States. According to Mahmood Mamdani a renowed American professor (2004:121), Afghanistan represented the "high point of the Cold War," in that American policy against Soviet occupation simultaneously exhausted the resources of Soviet power, and eventually brought to light "how the unintended consequences of misinformed, cynical, and opportunistic actions can boomerang on their perpetrators." Responding to an erroneous division of Islamist mobilization, between what Mamdani calls "revolutionary" and "elitist" Islamism, the CIA under the Reagan administration and in conjunction with Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) embarked on a mission to develop an internationally organized group of "Islamic guerillas" called the mujahideen. Funded in large part by the Saudi monarchy, the United States, and Pakistan, trained primarily by the CIA and ISI, and ideologically supported by figures such as the Palestinian Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, the Afghan mujahideen included Muslim fighters from the Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States who all assisted in the jihad against the Soviets. This war culminated in the defeat of Russia which in 1988 started withdrawing their troops from Afghanistan. This war also resulted in the disintegration of the Soviet Union into different countries. Because of its reliance on the US for both strategy and infrastructure, Mamdani argues that what actually happened in Afghanistan was less a Muslim jihad for freedom than it was an American jihad for global dominance. In fact the end of the Afghan war was the beginning of the American Jihad for total superemacy of the world and a strategy to plunder the vital resources of the Middle East mainly oil and gas. Against this backdrop a group of power hungry intellectuals including Vice President Cheney, Ex-Secretary of States Donald Rumsfield, Powel Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, John Bolton, and Zalmay Khalilzad also known as neoconservatives or neocons in 1997 created a think tank called The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC. Above all else, PNAC desires and demands one thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of all nations. They chafe at the idea that the United States, the last remaining superpower, does not do more by way of economic and military force to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new socio-economic Pax Americana. So according to them a new approach was needed.

The fundamental essence of PNAC's ideology can be found in a White Paper produced in September of 2000 entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century." In it, PNAC outlines what is required of America to create the global empire they envision. According to PNAC, America must:

Reposition permanently based forces to Southern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East;

Modernize U.S. forces, including enhancing our fighter aircraft, submarine and surface fleet capabilities;

Develop and deploy a global missile defense system, and develop a strategic dominance of space;

Control the "International Commons" of cyberspace;

Increase defense spending to a minimum of 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, up from the 3 percent currently spent.

Most ominously, this PNAC document described four "Core Missions" for the American military. The two central requirements are for American forces to "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars," and to "perform the 'constabulary' duties associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions." Note well that PNAC does not want America to be prepared to fight simultaneous major wars. That is old school. In order to bring this plan to fruition, the military must fight these wars one way or the other to establish American dominance for all to see. These are the modern chartists of American Jihad or to be correct terrorism. It is yet to be seen whether the prophecies of the document or the pseudo intellectuals behind it will materialize its goals. However the US has since then gone on a flurry of wars including Afghanistan and Iraq and other regions will see the repeat of the same. Iran, Syria, Pakistan, countries in the Middle East, Central Asia as well as China should get prepared as the US wants nothing less than a total submission. In the times to come we will see new villains and evil empires created and ultimately attacked by the US. Success in Iraq and Afghanistan will offer templates upon which new wars will be designed and fought culminating in the total surrender of nations to the will of the USA. There are two key objectives of this new strategy:

Firstly the US aims at controlling the energy resources or what it call as vital resources in the Middle East and the Central Asian as well as the South American nations.

Secondly and perhaps most importantly it wants to create a fear among the nations or call it Shock and Awe where no one will dare to defend itself or confront the US when attacked.

The end of the cold war was a sigh of relief for many nations thinking that it will culminate an era of peace and stability. But this euphoria was short lived as the US war mongers and war profiteer chalked a much dangerous and disastrous strategy of global dominance. As a result we saw the launch of war in Afghanistan followed by Iraq. The US call it the war on terrorism, the Muslim calls it the war on Islam but in reality it is an American Jihad for global dominance. American public supporting this war are creating worldwide enemies for themselves, countries supporting this madness are writing their own death certificates and those remaining silent are inviting self destruction. To avert the disasters of these evil enterprises the US public, sovereign nations, and those nation who either out of fear or greed are supporting the American wars must rethink and reflect whether they want to be part of the menace which will destroy the world or create a world of peace and harmony. In particular the sane American public must oppose the will of few who are bent on world destruction. This will also help the US in the long run to save itself from its internal enemies as well as those who will retaliate due to self defeating strategies of the US government.

Dr. Adalat Khan is the president of Mina Resources Sdn Bhd a leading training organization providing various training services who can be reached at e-mail dradalat@gmail.com or visit the website: www.mina.edu.my or see more details on Dr. Khan at http://www.selfgrowth.com/experts/dr_adalat_khan.html