Bangalore: American President George Bush launched his war in Afghanistan to catch Osama bin Laden “dead or alive”. This announcement was made immediately after the Sept.11, 2001 “terrorist attack on America.
In DV, we wrote three Editorials continuously one after the other:-
DV Edit Nov. 16, 2001: ‘US facing defeat in Afghanistan: anti-terrorist attacks turn into wholesale war on Islam“.
DV Edit Nov. 1, 2001: “DV welcomes war of rich against poor: Spirit of Islam will put US fat on fire“.
DV Edit Oct.16/2001: “Cowardly US reveals its impotence before Spirit of Islam: Right time to kick out Muslim stooges“.
In all our writings on US war, we have been. maintaining that in the long run US will lose. Osama bin Laden has been neither caught nor killed. The mightiest power on earth could not even locate “the world’s most wanted criminal”.
We have now a top American authority to endorse what we have been telling.
Washington: The Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle, says the current phase of anti-terror action in Afghanistan will be considered a failure it Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar were not captured or killed. (Hindu March 4, 2002)
As this is written the US has launched its second phase of attacks in Afghanistan against Osama’s Al-Qaida fighters meeting fierce resistance from Osama’s supporters. That means the first phase of the US war was a failure.
DV proves right.
The first phase of the Afghan war was aerial bombing. No ground troops. But the second phase is mainly ground war, which is the real war. Here the US is suffering.
Third Gulf war: Even the out and out pro-American Economist (March 9, 2002) in its editorial has admitted that the American war on Afghanistan is far from over. The bubble of the boasting Bush bursts in Afghanistan which once proved to be the graveyard of the Soviet empire. The Economist said the March first week’s revived war against Al-Qaeda and Taliban showed that both the Muslim forces were still at large.
Meanwhile, President Bush in his eagerness to complete the unfinished mission of his father, who launched a war to eliminate Saddam Hussain but failed, is getting ready to launch the third Gulf War against Iraq meeting stiff resistance not only from all Arab countries but even from his European allies even Britain, his closest alley.
