By the Editor In Chief
MIDST
discernible icons of stress—all around—Hans Blix has
eventually stepped onto the soil of Iraq with a tough
squad to hunt the ‘chemical n’ biological weapons’
seemingly being ‘masked’ by Saddam, a man—with verve—in
today’s world. Ever since the adoption of a UN
resolution, pressure has been mounting on Baghdad to
accept the new decree as Arab Foreign Ministers went
into an in-depth dialogue on the Middle East scenario,
with a meticulous focus to the endless US threats of war
vis-à-vis Iraq. The moot in Cairo termed the resolution
as Iraq’s best hope to avoid an impending military
strike by the United States. Not only that Blix deems
his current voyage as ‘the last chance for Iraq’, the
White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card—had
simultaneously—said in clear-cut words that the US
doesn’t require UN permission to act against Iraq, if it
fails to comply with the UN mandated weapons inspection
programme.
Since then, affirmative indications have been
approaching about Iraq’s nod to the Security Council
motion. It is obvious from a statement by the Egyptian
Foreign Minister, Ahmed Maher and Saudi Foreign
Minister, Saud al-Faisal wherein they expressed optimism
that Iraq was ‘ready to accept the resolution’. The UN
resolution—voted unanimously—by the 15-member Security
Council including Syria had warned Baghdad of ‘serious
consequences’ if it fails to comply with its disarmament
terms. Apart from unabated perils of war, posed by the
US leaders, the Arab countries have also ascended force
on Iraq to react to the resolution positively to shun
hazards for the Middle East as a whole. It’s ill-fated
due to the fact that Washington has hardly left any
option for Baghdad to eschew execution of the Security
Council resolution through any strategic gambit. It
ought to be mindful that President George W Bush is
desperate to complete his father, Bush—the senior’s
unfinished agenda to disarm and dislodge Saddam Hussein,
as is evident from the US leaders’ reaction over the
world body’s verdict. . Bush is—virtually—in search of
an excuse--howsoever lofty n’ lame it may be—to take
action against Baghdad. The situation, therefore, calls
for acumen and sagacity on the part of the Iraq to snap
the veracity in its true perceptions to save his land
and the people from a perceptible turmoil—which would
otherwise upshot into nothing except a reign of fatality
and obliteration. The loss of a million Iraqi
children—due to the UN sanctions against Baghdad amply
speaks of international community’s apathy towards
scanty nation’s dilemma. There should be no illusion
that it will again be a silent spectator to the
annihilation of Iraqi nation at the hands of today’s’
solitary Supper Power—the United States in case of a
nauseating reply from Saddam Hussein, who is fully aware
of the contents of the Security Council’s tenacity,
affirmed all the way through a tough US-sponsored
resolution ‘giving Iraq one last chance to disarm or pay
the cost—to the magnitude of ones mind’s eye.’. The
resolution gave President Saddam just a week to
acknowledge the terms—listed therein—for arsenal’
inspections by the UN inspectors who landed in Iraq
yesterday—Monday. Paradoxically, with all the bullying
tones, the new gauge, set by the UN still leaves
Washington free to molest Iraq—in a jiffy—even without a
fresh ‘indispensable resolution’, thus authorizing the
use of optimal might—at the disposal of the dominant
powers—to get onto Iraq, setting aside the fact that it
requires the world body to assess any grave infringement
before an binding military smack. The only
option—thus—left with Saddam is to ‘let Blix & Co’
embark on their atypical mindset. Let the ‘crusade of
inspection’ be conducted—uninterrupted. Let them have
‘an entrée’ even to the dazzling Presidential Palace n’
elsewhere ‘so that the guys get back to New York with a
buoyant n’ candid note—based on truth, if at all they
are blessed with such a facet. It will only make every
feature crystal clear in the best interest of the global
peace in all-purpose and the Middle East in diligent. In
such a fashion Saddam will fetch marvellous adore from
all the pragmatic nations which love peace by holding
amity—deep into their hearts—and snub all types of
brawls.
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Editor-in-Chief: MUMTAZ HAMID RAO
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