The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 246
1hirtee111h Friday Sen11011 Feb 15, 1991 scrag all your squirrels at Fallodon" Mr Gray would then immediately append his signatures on the document! They have lost the sense of balance of their values, and this bas been going on for a long time. They are willing to mortify human beings in favour of dogs. They are un-willing to sacrifice their petty self-interest for the welfare of humanity. So they are completely and fully involved in the criminal responsibility of this war. If they would not be held accountable today, then definitely tomorrow would hold them to account. According to some intelligent commentators one of the reasons why the U. S. jumped into this war is the so called "Vietnam complex" whicb haunts President Bush and the U. S. The situation in Vietnam had some parallels with the current situation. In Vietnam, the Americans had inflicted such heavy bombardment, that prior to the onslaught on Iraq, such horrifying bombardment had never rained on any other country. American bombardment obliterated towns after towns and disrupted life so much and destroyed the economy to such an extent that such unilateral tyranny is seldom seen in human history. The scale of this destruction was spread over a wide expanse of the country, but despite all that they could not break the spirit of the Vietnamese nation. They could not bring them to their knees. The nation continued to offer sacrifices of their lives and continued to fight, but simply refused to prostrate before the hegemony of the United States. The result was that eventually, the U. S. had to swallow their pride. Their stubbornness was softened and they had lo make a hasty retreat from Vietnam without achieving their objective. When we hear about the anti-Vietnam war movement in the United States some people mistakenly believe that the American public opinion was against the Vietnam war because of their human compassion. The fact is that even if a million Vietnamese had died in the war, the American public opinion would not be bothered at all, it would not have bothered even to the extent to which it was concerned to see a few wild ducks die in the oil slick. But the prospect of American casualties and the challenge to American pride has become such a torment for them and such a bitter pill which they cannot swallow. 246