The Law of the Jungle
The Law of the Jungle ain't taking us nowhere, but to disaster. The Lion will kill a monkey, or two, or one hundred, but that will only cause more cries of revenge... Wise up, it's a jungle out there...!
Bush Doctrine: Hegemony Claim or Jungle Law
Professor of politics at La Probe University Robert Anne criticized
Monday the Bush Doctrine as hegemony claims or jungle law.
The professor published on The Sydney Morning Herald an article titled
"Kill first, ask questions later," in which he said the new idea of
the pre-emptive strike in reality is a strategy not of pre-emptive
strike but of preventive war because the Bush doctrine proposes
military action against "rogue states" when no threat to the United
States is imminent.
"For a preventive war to be launched, a state needs only imagine
itself to be under threat. With such an idea, the line between
self-defense and aggression becomes hopelessly blurred," he said.
The professor analyzed, "The danger of this conflation of pre-emptive
strike and preventive war is aggravated precisely by the fact that the
Bush doctrine makes it clear that the United States reserves to itself
the right to strike unilaterally, without mandate from the established
processes of the United Nations. Under the new doctrine, then, the
United States may not only go to war on the basis of an imagined
threat. It also arrogates to itself the right to decide alone when
such a threat exists."
"At the center of the doctrine, a huge conceptual hole appears.Does
the United States, as the world hegemony, alone possess the sovereign
right to act unilaterally against a supposed threat to its security by
prosecuting a preventive war, or does an identical right exist for
other states?" he asked and concluded "If the right does not exist for
others, the Bush doctrine amounts to an almost formal claim to US
world hegemony. If, on the other hand, all states possess the same
right, the Bush doctrine opens the war to the return of the jungle,
where the powerful have the capacity to impose their will."
(Xinhua News Agency September 30, 2002)
Iraqis Warn US Killings Will Breed Terror Recruits
By Saul Hudson
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Twenty bullet holes in the windshield, eight in the roof and at least four more in the blood-soaked driver's seat of the rusty taxi fuel the hatred in 14-year-old Ahmed Muthana's dark brown eyes.
The Iraqi schoolboy with short-cropped hair and an unblinking stare stands erect by the car and clutches a tunic red all over from the dried blood of his uncle, shot dead by U.S. troops at an anti-American demonstration in Falluja.
"I hate Americans," he said. "I want revenge. I will wait, I will join a group, and, one day, I will kill Americans," Muthana said Thursday.
Monday, his father was wounded in the leg as he shepherded his seven children inside their home in front of the demonstration.
Muthana's uncle was trying to reach the house to drive the boy's father to hospital when the bullets raked his orange and white cab.
Muthana said he now wanted to join al Qaeda because he admired Osama bin Laden, the network's leader and alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks on America.
The United States invaded Iraq to eliminate what it called the direct threat of Saddam Hussein but its first pre-emptive war worried many governments around the world that it would stoke anti-American anger in the Middle East.
Many residents of Falluja, a conservative Sunni Muslim city of about 270,000 people, said they would turn their anger into revenge attacks against the U.S. soldiers who have killed at least 15 people at demonstrations this week.
Late Wednesday, seven U.S. soldiers were wounded in a grenade attack at their base in the city which had seen little violence in the three-week war.
BREEDING SUICIDE BOMBERS
Like most residents, Hend Majid, a 29-year-old housewife, said she was glad Saddam was gone after decades of brutal repression. But now the U.S. "occupation" had led to her neighbors' deaths she felt like a Palestinian under Israeli rule.
Sitting in her living room where two bullets had pierced the window and flown above the cot of her 7-day-old niece, she vowed to become a suicide bomber.
"I will strap explosives to my chest to get rid of them," she said.
U.S. automatic rifle and machine-gun fire have left marks on the homes of five other families in the street, where demonstrators demanded the U.S. troops vacate a school they had occupied as part of their takeover of the city.
Thirteen Iraqis were killed Monday. Two days later, two Iraqis were killed when U.S. soldiers opened fire in a similar incident in Falluja, 30 miles west of Baghdad.
The U.S. military said its troops were shot at first in both incidents but Iraqi witnesses said the shootings were unprovoked.
"Everyone here was happy at first that the Americans threw out Saddam," Ibrahim Hamad a retired soldier said. "But these killings will make all our children go off with bin Laden."
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence" -M.L. King
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