Status of Communist Countries

Of the Utopian dreams, the dream of converting the world into a socialistic society with the economic development based on communism by the dictatorship regimes has become a big farce as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed. Even then some nations are still ruled by communist dictators only upon military might. Now the focus of the world is on two communist countries such as China and North Korea as China has become a defunct Socialist State after the Soviet Union split into many liberated nations like Yugoslavia became later in Europe. 

China

Only after more than half a century, Russia came to realize the betrayal, the true lies of the communist manifesto and changed over itself to a new politico-administrative system of governance and democratized its State. But China, which has a biggest population in the world, is unable to make immediate change because it may lose control over its people. However, without economic development, all kinds of other developments cannot be achieved by any nation in the world. So, experimentations based on reforms, liberalization and globalization are very essential for all nations in the 21st century.

Perhaps realizing this truth, at last China has normalized and is normalizing its relationships with the neighbors and outside world. Therefore, it looks that China, which wanted to become an Asian giant by nuclear or military means, wants to become an economic leader by opposing international terrorism accepting world peace because it is necessary for its developments and coming forward for participating in the world trade market and cooperating with the international community for its economic development, after making necessary internal reforms for the governance of its State.

North Korea

On observation it looks that the only nation that dogmatically sticking to communist manifesto with sophisticated weapons is North Korea. Even though communism has failed and nuclear proliferation is against world peace and its existence, North Korea still believes to keep itself strong in the conventional stand of strategy in South Asia, which is standing as a great impediment in its normalization process towards other nations. That is why unification of North and South Koreas still remains to be a dream. Recently North Korea has sent out the international monitoring agents of its nuclear energy enriching plant there. America reacted that sanctions should be imposed on North Korea For that North Korea has withdrawn its Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signed by it earlier. Then it has said that if a sanction is imposed on North Korea, it is a declaration of war on it by USA. So, America is trying to pacify it and diplomatically taking efforts to resolve North Korean problem in a peaceful way.

Status of Terrorist Nations

Maintaining national defense is the sovereign right of each country. But unnecessary building up of defense potentiality is a threat to the neighbors. Above all, building up military potentialities combined with terrorism is a potential danger to the whole world. The nations that are prominent in this regard today are Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Libya, Sudan and Yemen of which some need to be critically analyzed. Neither economic nor socialistic but only religiously dogmatic, the terrorists don’t care for capitalists and communists. But both the communists and the terrorists betray even their friends for the sake of their respective rigid dogmatisms. However, by a rare coincidence today both the capitalists and the communists are against international terrorism and even jointly want to fight against it to the last.

Afghanistan

Religious militants don’t care for friendship, humanity, culture and civilization but their dogmatism only and in that way they torture and control their won people by imposing some taboos to be followed by them. Such a thing world has witnessed in Afghanistan. Religious bigots are neither faithful to nor fail to betray those who have helped them. After having helped such religious dogmatists, Super Powers are paying heavy prices to put an end to terrorist menaces in the world today. Afghanistan is one such instance in the world history today.

In the cold war period, after the Vietnam War, the show of strength between the Super Powers took place only in Afghanistan. In the balance of power game, to have strategic access to the Southern Seas, Russia took hold of Afghanistan for about eight years. To win in the cold war America did all possible things by equipping the Afghan rebels with sophisticated weapons through Pakistan. So, the extremist rebels easily grew from strength to strength to a formidable level. But due to perestroika [reform or restructuring] had to be really made in a glasnost [transparent] manner, Russia sincerely came forward to put an end to cold war and as a result it withdrew its troops and left Afghanistan once and for all.

So, within a decade or so the all in all extremist rebels, the terrorist Talibans invaded the whole of Afghanistan from the South. Besides, Osama bin Laden, the leader of the Al Qaeda Terrorist Organization, after his extradition from Saudi Arabia, stayed in Yemen for sometime and then permanently took asylum in Afghanistan fully supporting the Talibans. Osama’s religious and financial support was a great shot in the arm for the Talibans. In that way Afghanistan became the Centre of International Terrorism in the world. First the terrorists attacked the American embassies in Africa and then destroyed the World Trade Center twin towers in New York, a biggest economic blow to USA on 11th September 2001. So, under the unanimous approval of UNO USA, UK, France and Italy waged war against Talibans to the last and established a new government in Afghanistan under their supervision in 2002. Now normalization of civilian rule is going on there.

Iraq

The desire for land aggression led to the defeat of Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War. Sometime or other, the wounded tiger takes revenge on the wounder. However strong or weak the opponent may be, it never fails to attack it, whenever chances come. It was true in the case of Iraq. Having a modernized army with sophisticated weapons, Iraq was a real terror and threat to the peace of that region as well as the world. So, how to solve or in what way to settle the case of Iraq was a vital problem to the international community then. It seemed, if the Iraq problem was resolved peacefully or politically, another world war could be avoided for the good of the world.

After throwing away the Shaw of modernized Iran, the Islamic fundamentalist leader Ayatollah Khomeini took throne and ruled the people with old religious principles. War broke out between Iran and Iraq on the sharing of river water lasting for about eight years. In that cold war time Iran was supported by the Eastern Super Power and Iraq was supported by the Western Super Power with the supply of latest and sophisticated weapons. Having modernized its army, to have a few more share of Oil Well, Iraq ventured upon invading Kuwait. But Iraqi soldiers were thorn out from Kuwait by the multinational force under the leadership of USA in accordance with the UN resolution in the 1991 Gulf War.

In spite of international economic sanction on Iraq and even after a decade or so the confrontationist attitude of Iraq towards the West, that too especially towards USA, had not changed. Even then it was openly defying America and Israel. Even after the Gulf War, President Saddam Hussein of Iraq did not step down from power. He simply stepped up the production of weapons. In 2002 he conducted referendum, in which 100% votes polled by the people of Iraq favored Saddam Hussein’s stay in power. That verdict was against the wishes of the erstwhile Iraqi Generals and opposition party members in exile, who might be installed in the new government after Saddam Hussein was ousted from power in Iraq with the full support of US government.

So, USA was vigorously working towards the change of government in Iraq and disarmament of weapons of mass destruction there through UN and their coalition partners under UN resolution 1441. But Saddam Hussein was defying the US government and was preparing his army ready for a war, though he had allowed international atomic energy agency inspectors to check for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Discussions were going on in the UN Security Council. Most of the nations were not in favor of war in Iraq, but are interested in disarmament and peaceful resolution there so that world peace and unity could be maintained. Thereafter what has happened and is happening are unpalatable to historians and world peace loving people.

Pakistan

Pakistan’s nationalism is growing on Anti-India policy. Since its independence violence, corruption, drug trafficking, smuggling and terrorist activities are going on unchecked even though many military and democratic governments have come to power there. There were Islamic religious schools called madrassas preparing Mujahideens [warriors] to carry out Jihads [holy wars] wherever necessary in the world. After the fall of Afghanistan, Pakistan has become the Epicenter of Terrorism having terrorist outfits training youths for terrorist activities, which, India and the international community have been asking it to stop once and for all in order to promote world peace, security and brotherhood. Pakistan has made promises to stop terrorist organizations there, but has not fulfilled them so far. So, it is true in the case of Pakistan that if the starting itself is wrong, everything will go wrong.

Just after India got independence, the then King of Kashmir Maharaja Hari Singh understanding the hostile nature of Pakistan preferred his State to remain part of India and accordingly Jammu and Kashmir became integral part of India after the instrument of accession was signed between them. From then on not only Hindus, but also Muslims and Buddhists live in harmony following the unique Kashmiriyat Culture there. But Pakistan thought otherwise. Believing that as Muslims are in majority in Kashmir, they would succumb to its intention, Pakistan tried to invade it by waging war against India in 1949, 1965 and 1971, but only met with failures. Without understanding the unique Kashmiriyat Culture based on secularism, Pakistan somehow tried to wrest it from India on the basis of Islamic religion, which did not successfully work in favor of it with the Kashmir people. So, for the past two decades Pakistan has been using terrorism as the instrument of its State policy by encouraging terrorist infiltrations across the line of control and cross border terrorism, which is only a proxy war against India.

Even today the unity and integrity of India sustain upon the principles of unity in diversity [of languages, religions, castes, cultures, etc.], secularism and democracy supported by the principles of its foreign policy such as nonaggression, non-interference, peace, friendship, cooperation, coordination and coexistence. After the Second World War, the cold war began between USA and USSR and India became a free nation. If one super power was supported another super power had to be opposed. So, India adopted non-alignment as the central aspect of its foreign policy in its relationship with the other nations of the world, which was wrongly understood by the international community in that period. To have good neighborly relationship with its neighboring nations India extended its hand of friendship to them. First, China betrayed India by making naked aggression on Indian territories in Kashmir, Assam and a little mid portion of North in 1962. Then only India realized that without the support of a strong military force, it cannot give life to its policies and so, developed its Indian National Army. Next, even after the partition of the Subcontinent into India and Pakistan, Pakistan tried to grab land from India in the wars of 1965 and 1971 and betrayed India many times.

After four decades, cold war came to an end. India tested atomic bombs two times in 1974 and 1998 out of necessity to defend itself from external enemies nearby and far off and has become one of the nuclear power nations in the world. But Pakistan is even now following the policy of anti-India to run its military government without bothering abut the opinion and the development of its people. So, really Pakistan is a great danger not only to India but also to the world, which, the only Super Power of today, USA should understand before it is too late, as it relies upon Pakistan in its war against international terrorism, which is totally a wrong step it has taken without having proper knowledge of foreign affairs.

It is said that one’s enemy’s enemy is a friend. So, on that basis Pakistan and China became friends and shared the plunders effected by them in India. As a token of this friendship, they built a road link between Pakistan and China on the North of Kashmir. Though India forgets and forgives the blunders, its neighbors aggressively take advantage of that now and then.

Though Mohammad Ali Jinnah, leader of Muslim League proposed Two Nation theory on the basis of religion and formed Pakistan nation, all the Muslims of India did not go and settle there after the partition of the Subcontinent of India. Even today the second largest Muslim population of the world still lives in India and enjoys more freedom and rights than it could anywhere else in the world. This is the strength of India Pakistan is trying to break without success for the past 60 years. The religious madness and stubbornness have made rulers of Pakistan blind to see this reason even after half a century means how incorrigible and hardcore type of men they are! So, this hard nut can be cracked only by the joint ventures of the international community.   

May 12, 2007 

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