Failed States Flailing
Yemen, so newly identified as another breeding ground for terrorists, has appealed to Western countries to save it from itself. It needs, it says, funding to allow it to successfully battle the twisted version of Islam that is producing violent jihad. Odd, that, for does not the Arab League have a fund from which it regularly dispenses aid to those of its sister countries that are not endowed with oil, and whose prospects for moderation are impaired? Yemen says it must be able to create jobs to offer to its young men to keep them out of the clutches of al-Qaeda.And this is the responsibility of democratic Western states. To be sufficiently concerned over the diabolical plans of fundamentalist Islamists to continue attempting the ruination of Western democracies. To surrender without too many questions to the perceived need to help these failed social, political, ideological-damaged nations. Yemen does not have nuclear technology. Pakistan has both nuclear technology and human explosives, a fatal combination. Pakistan too requires vast sums of Western-sourced treasury.
Afghanistan has little-to-no technology, as a fairly indigent country with an impressively sad history of invasion, subjugation and revolt leading to self-rule of a totalitarian variety. It must be 'saved' from its Pashtun tribal Islamist radicals calling themselves the scholars. There is little differentiation in the far-flung rural provinces of that country between the rural and tribal residents and the Taliban, and the Taliban, well-resourced, pays better salaries than the government.
Haiti's social and governmental infrastructure has just collapsed, thanks to the effects of a massive earthquake that levelled homes and government institutions and successfully left the country poorer by some 200,000 people, if not more, according to the Haitian government's rising estimates of the dead. Fully one million - perhaps more - have been seriously wounded, and left homeless.
Haiti is yet another country, one of the poorest in the world, certainly the basket case of the Western Hemisphere, that relies heavily on the goodwill and wherewithal of the West. It too was a victim of colonialism, a particularly cruel kind which, when it was defeated, left the country without institutional infrastructure and an adaptable network of civic institutions, quite unlike the heritage of British colonial rule.
Haiti's Prime Minister has met with the contributing world's premier governmental elites in an effort to map out that ravaged country's current and future needs. A daunting task if ever there was one, since there is little left to build upon, and everything must be started again from square one. The Haitian government insists that it will lead the way, and contributing governments agree, yet the people of Haiti deplore their government and have no confidence whatever in it.
That's the cheerful news for today.
Oh my, did I forget? Yes, I must have. There's Iran, another country that has managed with great efficiency and Islamist-Republic fanfare to fail the needs of its people, in its rabid attention to bestowing upon itself the Pakistani-generated gift of nuclear capability. Of which success a newly-released report leaves no doubt. U.S. Israeli, German and Austrian government intelligence confirms secret tests and hierarchies of power dedicated to nuclear-munitions development. Success: imminent.
This too is the figment of no state's overheated imagination, fearing for its own security and that of its citizens.
What a deplorable state the world has got itself into... Have I forgotten to mention Burma, North Korea, Cuba, Argentina,Zimbabwe, Kenya, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo? And the lumbering elephant in the Globe? Which needs no assistance from any other country to advantage itself other than by the clever manipulation of its own resources?
Will heaven help us all and come to our rescue? Thought not.
Labels: Human Relations, Political Realities, World Crises
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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