04-08-2004, 04:22 AM
<b>THE USA'S BIGGEST ENEMY </b>
by B.Raman
The USA's biggest enemy today is neither Al Qaeda nor Osama bin Laden and his dregs nor the International Islamic Front (IIF).<b> It is its own intellectual arrogance and its unwillingness and inability to admit its mistakes and to do an introspection on its past policies, which have led it from one disaster to another</b>.
2. Thanks to its vast human and material resources, it has in the past been able to extricate itself out of the disasters of its own creation and emerge none the worse for them. It is doubtful whether it would similarly be able to extricate itself out of the looming disaster, which it has created for itself in Iraq.
3.In the context of the current Shia uprising in Iraq, the readers may like to go through the following article titled "After Saddam: The Mullas and Imams" written by me for the South Asia Analysis Group on April 21, 2003 (Paper reproduced below as an Appendix)
http://www.saag.org/papers10/paper973.html
by B.Raman
The USA's biggest enemy today is neither Al Qaeda nor Osama bin Laden and his dregs nor the International Islamic Front (IIF).<b> It is its own intellectual arrogance and its unwillingness and inability to admit its mistakes and to do an introspection on its past policies, which have led it from one disaster to another</b>.
2. Thanks to its vast human and material resources, it has in the past been able to extricate itself out of the disasters of its own creation and emerge none the worse for them. It is doubtful whether it would similarly be able to extricate itself out of the looming disaster, which it has created for itself in Iraq.
3.In the context of the current Shia uprising in Iraq, the readers may like to go through the following article titled "After Saddam: The Mullas and Imams" written by me for the South Asia Analysis Group on April 21, 2003 (Paper reproduced below as an Appendix)
http://www.saag.org/papers10/paper973.html