December 23, 2006

The U.S. began its third millennium with its Iraq adventure. It thought it would change the face of the Middle East through its illegal invasion of that country and crown itself as the world’s unrivaled superpower for decades.

But it failed drastically in the test it set for itself. The invasion through which it wanted to teach the Middle East a lesson backfired.

The leaders who hoped their invading troops will be welcomed with flowers are now busy ferrying their dead and wounded soldiers and have no idea what to do with tanks and vehicles that are knocked out in anti-U.S. operations.

The flowers have turned into bullets and deadly roadside bombs that are killing and maiming Americans in droves and driving its leaders crazy.

The world’s most powerful empire is about to lose its credibility and declare defeat at the hands of a small but dedicated group of resistance fighters.

Somebody should have told the U.S. that not everyone has the ability to surf the Arabian sands. It may not be too late to deliver the message but the Arabian sands of the Middle East do not yield to invaders. History tells it is the other way round.

But the U.S. still seems adamant to change the Arabian Middle East through brutal force and overwhelming hypocrisy and double standard.

The Arabian sands help their inhabitants to see as far as the horizon and it does not take them long to discover the U.S. has not come to save them but to save itself and its illegitimate daughter Israel.

The U.S., through brutal force, wants the Arabs to detach themselves from their history and forget about the loss of their land and the plight of their refugees.

For the inhabitants of the Arabian sands history matters and if its errors are not corrected the sands will blow in the face of the invaders and turn them blind.

The Arabian Middle East is not there to be changed by the U.S. It is there to bring about changes in other regions and nations. And nearly four years after the invasion, the U.S. is the one which will have to seriously consider changing itself and its policies.

America is no longer in a position to tell others to democratize or respect human rights. Its invasion and Middle East polices demonstrate that those principles do not count in dealing with the region.

And the inhabitants of the Arabian sands have come to understand that America has two tongues, double principles, hypocritical standards and multiple faces in dealing with them.

It is not easy to walk on the Arabian sands with a blazing sun. You will get scorched and shunned if you are dishonest. And no country is as dishonest as America for the people inhabiting the Arabian sands.