Syed Mazhar Ali Shah
Washington is notorious for its double standards. Reference to only one instance would suffice to substantiate this statement. The Americans consider themselves as above the law. They want unlimited freedom to develop latest nuclear weaponry but want other countries of the world to cap their nuclear projects. They follow one set of principles while dealing with Israel on this subject while adopt an entirely different one in their approach on this issue to the rest of the world. Can they bare their teeth to Tel Aviv in the same manner in which they had bared to North Korea and Iran to wrap up their nuclear proliferation programmes ?
It goes without saying that the US is a weapon making country and earns a lot of money by its world-wide sale. Didn’t it dislodge the governments of Iraq and Libya in the recent past on the flimsy plea that they had weapons of mass destruction in their military arsenal which are a threat to world peace, whereas, the fact of the matter is that the American forces could not find any trace of WMD when they occupied these countries? Was there any justification for military action against these countries when they had agreed to abide by Washington’s terms on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons?
The American cannot have cake and eat it too. They cannot have both ways. At the moment Trump is having it out with Tehran over the nuclearisation issue and he is going the whole hog to impose economic sanctions against it forcing it to shut down its nuclear projects. His allies in Europe, however, don’t see eye to eye with him on many aspects of the issue which wax eloquent of the bankrupt foreign policy of the American administration which wants to get things done through brute force instead of negotiations. Such Hitlerian ways of doing things are fraught with danger of unrest in the entire world . The sane element within the US must rise up and ensure that madcap Trump does not succeed in embarking on a foreign policy which can only bring discredit to Washington, besides, risking Third World War.
