By Atul Bhardwaj
June 14, 2012
Last week, Leon Panetta,
Pentagon’s chief hit-man was in Asia, signaling ‘Broken
Arrow, Broken Arrow!’
This bogey was meant to gather gullible Asian leaders, persuading them to come
to the aid of the American empire in grave danger of being overrun by China. ‘Broken Arrow’ was a code
reserved by the American forces in the Vietnam War to signal extreme danger to
their positions. Panetta’s appeal for help has had such an impact that
great strategy pundits from India, Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia
Australia, Japan, South Korea and others have joined Pentagon psalmists’ chorus
- chanting imprecatory prayers - predicting disgrace and shame to the Chinese.
Post 9/11, the world was introduced to a similar imprecatory number against Islam. A little over a decade ago, Bush had stood up to tell the world about the ensuing ‘clash of civilizations’. Now all that war on terror lies buried under the cacophony of Osama’s death pronouncement and the din of ‘Arab Spring’.
The latest American mantra pivots
around the Oceans in Asia Pacific region. Dr John Chipman, Director General and
Chief Executive, IISS says, “one of the most important subjects in the Asia‑Pacific
is the idea of protecting maritime freedoms and the acceptance that this is an
international and global role, not only a regional and particular role.”
Fresh words are being woven and
new alliances are being sewn together; only to pull wool over Asian eyes.
Dangerous needles are being pricked into Asian minds to prove that their
salvation lies in preventing China
from uprooting the treasure tower embedded in the South
China Sea. Scarborough Shoal - a disputed territory between China and Philippines
– is now the chief reason for Asia to be “in a
state of strategic flux.” As Sanjay Baru tells us, America is “seeking to provide an
element of stability to this flux, and inject a measure of certainty to an
uncertain world.”
Today, Panetta talks about
shifting an additional 10% of American forces to Indo-Pacific than what it has
committed in the Atlantic. Towards the fag end
of their empire in Asia, British too had tried to use huge forces at their
disposal to protect “the crescent of land that stretched from Bengal, through Burma, the
Southern island. It was hinterland of the Straits of Malacca, one of the
greatest arteries of oceanic trade that separates the Indian Ocean from South China Sea.” (Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, Forgotten
Wars: The end of Britain’s
Asian Empire, 2008). Bayly and Harper also tell us that during these years
the Americans used to make fun of the British South East Asian Command (SEAC)
under Lord Mountbatten as nothing but an acronym that stood for “Save England
Asian Colonies”.
Today, America finds itself in British shoes. It is paranoid about the longevity of its empire. It’s declining money power and reduced ability to spend on military is making it seek military hardware and manpower from within Asia-Pacific. It is playing the same old game and making sure that Asians are once again buffoon(ed) into fighting against each other.
It is a paradox that in the era
of advancing life expectancy, the collective memory of the human being is on
the decline. It is only sixty years ago, Panetta’s predecessors had entered Asia pacific with an atomic bang, making the Japanese
experience the horrors of weapons of mass destruction and colonization.
Just prior to dropping of the
atomic bomb, the communist cadres in South East Asia
and British Indian army soldiers were used as cannon fodder to defeat the
Japanese colonial designs. And all they got in return for fighting the Japanese
was a fresh tranche of brutal British imperialism.
By 1946 Japan had been mollified and the threat of
communism was the new clarion call on which Asia
was to rotate. How does one forget the US
role in ensuring the division of Korea
and the use of ‘Agent Orange’ in Vietnam? They used Soviet Union in WW II only to make it an enemy. Islam was
used against godless communism and then made into a dreaded monster after 9/11.
They used China in the Cold
War and now China
is the enemy. This is an endless game that can no longer be brushed aside in
terms of, “there are no permanent friends or enemies, but permanent interests
in international relations.”
The people of Asia
must expose this farce and say that there is only one permanent interest - not
to
expose global poor to wars initiated at the behest of the leech-like descendants of Rockefeller and Rothschild. The people must come together to prevent their younger generations from being used once again in frivolous wars. Wars indulged in by these banking monsters representing 1% of the global population. For this tiny minority, war is a necessity. They will create reasons to display their masculinity and keep the global 99% in a perpetual state of shock and awe. Thus, there is no use blaming Americans, now we know the real culprits behind the wars.
expose global poor to wars initiated at the behest of the leech-like descendants of Rockefeller and Rothschild. The people must come together to prevent their younger generations from being used once again in frivolous wars. Wars indulged in by these banking monsters representing 1% of the global population. For this tiny minority, war is a necessity. They will create reasons to display their masculinity and keep the global 99% in a perpetual state of shock and awe. Thus, there is no use blaming Americans, now we know the real culprits behind the wars.
For these global elite, the
multitudes are expendable earthworms and cockroaches. Nations and Gods are all
strategic commodities to be used and thrown away like disposable crockery.
Protection and perpetuation of property rights is all they live for and make us
die for. They will not change; let us at least, not allow ourselves to be used.
The author is a retd. Naval officer; he edits the quarterly magazine Purple Beret
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