OIL IS THICKER THAN BLOOD

The end of Gadaffi shows not merely the fate of yesterday rebel turned dictator but also the present day exporters of democracy who bomb to build democracy. The same people who mouthed the virtue of non-violence in the face of socialist revolutions have been using their military muscle to have governments favourable to them. The stories of Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua , Afghanistan , Iraq and Lybia or Pakistan tell that dictators or fundamentalists have been pampered and tolerated till they danced to the tune of American music. The UNO has become the ratifying body of American foreign policy which believes oil is thicker than blood. The politics of power certainty flows through the barrels of oil. How many civilians have died in the hands of technological Frankenstein ? Human rights are paramount but do they have freedom to evolve without outside intervention? The external intervention by the lone super power reminds the idiom from frying pan into fire. The language of power based on mania for money and resources has to give way to internationalism that respects all national cultures. The sane voice of Tagore says that pilots of destruction are inferior to the tribals of Afghanistan who showed hospitality to them during the first world War. People need clear thinking but not the biased versions of the media and nations who have been practicing imperialism in the guise of democracy.