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China Joins Anti-War Donks
CHINA used the fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks in the United States to criticise Washington's "war on terror," saying the campaign faced a "gloomy future".In a commentary issued by the official Xinhua news agency, China said although the "war on terror" helped President George W. Bush get re-elected, it had not achieved much progress. "At present, the United States is suffering a rising number of casualties and facing more problems in Iraq and Afghanistan," said the editorial. US troops were "increasingly bogged down" in the Iraqi and Afghan "quagmires" and the American people and their allies faced more threats of attacks from Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, Xinhua said. The September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States blamed on Al-Qaeda resulted in Mr Bush launching the "war on terror". In Afghanistan, the overthrown Taliban regime and Al-Qaeda were staging a comeback and recruiting worldwide, thus making it almost impossible to forestall every terrorist attack, Xinhua said. Post-Saddam Iraq was witnessing an worsening security situation, a fierce power struggle among the political parties, and a difficult start to reconstruction of the country, according to Xinhua's assessment. "After 9/11, the US government has gradually pushed ahead with a strategy characterised by unilateralism and pre-emptive strike, which has become both America's national security strategy and guidelines in the fight against terrorism," Xinhua said. "However, the strategy has proved not feasible. Although it easily toppled the Saddam Hussein regime by means of war, the US administration later stumbled in the process of helping build a 'democratic and free Iraq'." Xinhua blamed the problem on the US invading Iraq without strong support from the United Nations and the international community, or the understanding and cooperation of the Iraqi public. "All this proves that in order to win the war against terrorism, it is not enough just to hunt down the terrorists," Xinhua said. "To achieve its goal, the US administration needs to get to the root of terrorism to find the solution. "It is obvious that the war on terror can be won only by relieving poverty, eliminating the political, economic and social conditions under which terrorism and extremism breed and cooperating closely with the rest of the international community under the UN leadership," said Xinhua. Like the donks, they offer no tenable solutions themselves. Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-11 |
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