The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 152
Eighth Friday Sennon Jan 11, 1991 will be rendered paupers, and our bank-balances would have been frittered away by then. So they are in a state of great consternation. The prospect of being impoverished during wartime is gnawing at them. So they are pressing the U. S. for preemptive action, and the U. S. cannot let the world know about who is putting the pressure from behind the scene. President Bush is taken to task in his own country. Congress is as king him about his sudden change of mood, whereas he had laid out a one-year plan for the sanctions to work against Iraq and bring it down on its knees; how is it that now there seems to be nothing on your mind but imminent war? How can President Bush say that he is acting as a mercenary, and the one who has hired his services, and is the financier of this war, is pressurizing him to hurry up because he cannot pay up beyond a certain amount. So this is the reality of the current situation. When I say that the ball is in the court of Muslim countries, it was general speaking. The fact of the matter is that this decision rests with Saudi Arabia whose mounting bills in the financing of this war are forcing it to ask for a speedy end of this conflagration so that it can go back to square-one. But this is a great folly on its part to think that it can go back to square-one, for no such starting point would remain. If Iraq is undermined then along with it the entire heritage of the past would be annihilated. The Arab psyche would have undergone a change; their ways of thinking would have become quite different. New set of circumstances would spawn new era. Those who are indulging in their silly dreams that once the issue is quickly put an end to, they would be able to go back to where they were - they must know that they will never be able to take a leap backward to their original state. Rather historical forces would coercively drag them into future where there are gruesome circumstances that the futurity has in store for them, and they will not be able to escape their lot. They are riding the deep-running waves of rapids that are spewing foam in their fury of motion and even a strong and big vessel is no more than an ordinary straw on their turbulent surface. When such rapids assume the form of a waterfall and come down from mountains they can smash even the strongest resistance into smithereens. So, they are riding the strong tidal waves of time and are irrevocably involved in a situation from which they cannot retreat. 152