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US policies breed terrorism
munaeem | 18 January, 2007 14:05
A commentary in the London-based daily Asharq Al Awsat said that many Arabs have criticized how US policy has hurt "our causes, such as the Palestinian, and enflamed dangerous sedition, such as in Afghanistan, Iraq, and more recently in Somalia.
"Now, it added, "we want to be served by giving the Americans the advice that their president is leading them and their political, economic, and military interests to exhaustion."
The Saudi-owned paper insisted that President Bush has pulled his armies, government, and his people's resources to a bloody swamp under the slogan of fighting terrorism, stressing that the state under Saddam Hussein was free of Al Qaeda until the American occupation of Iraq without international approval.
And now, it complained, the United States is repeating the same scenario in Somalia with its bombs. It argued that "moderate voices" in Somalia's Islamic courts have become "hoarse," as have the voices of eastern and western advice to America, in repeating that the Taliban model has its own Afghan particularity and that each country has its own situation that cannot implement the Afghan Taliban model on other Islamic groups in Somalia or elsewhere.
"And yet America is chasing the Islamic courts to force them to eventually adopt the ideas of Al Qaeda and jihad," it said, adding that it did not doubt that the American war on Somalia's Islamic courts will lead the latter to, in fact, join Al Qaeda.
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