Some years ago, I had written and directed the play 'purush ' which was about a fight of a young schoolteacher who is raped by a politician. When things get tough for her to fight against power and money she turns to her Dalit boyfriend, who is always actively involved in taking up causes for the Dalit downtrodden. When he refuses to help her in her fight because she is a Brahmin, she turns on him like a tigress and says “I now realize, that you are not against injustice, you are only against injustice done to your people".
While watching all the media coverage about how Indian government should now petition America to put pressure on Pakistan to get dawood ibrahim kaskar . or launch a strike against him the way they did to get Osama bin Laden .
and I said how naive can we get. America is not against terrorism or terrorists. it's against acts of terrorism against Americans . They would spend billions of dollars and sanction huge manpower to avenge acts of terrorism against their people and their land. and rightly so. the American government owes its foremost responsibility to the American people and not to the world at large.( unless of course it involves oil, money or other form of materialistic profit. but then that is being overly cynical. )
but the point that emerges from all these actions of the Western superpowers, is, why create these ' bhasmasurs '? any follower of modern history is well aware that these so-called evil creatures are created by them because it suits their purpose at that point of time. idi amin 'dada ' Was regarded by his British superiors as an iconic figure with tremendous leadership qualities that could help uganda ( till one-day he flexed his muscles and thumbed his nose at the white masters. And then he suddenly became this cannibal monster.) Saddam Hussein was promoted, trained, funded by America when it suited them to use him against a belligerent iran of ayatollah khomeini . just weeks before his invasion of kuwait ( which historically was a part of Iraq,till the British decided to hive it off for their own personal reasons) he was seen hobnobbing with the American Secretary of State/ Defence Secretary or somesuch in baghdad. now the ex-Satan incarnate Osama bin laden was promoted, funded, trained and otherwise amply supported by the Americans because he was fighting against the Russians in afganistan , and he was a good weapon to promote underground to do their own dirty work on the ground.
all these guys, and many others only became evil when they continued to do the same thing but now against their previous Masters. same people. same actions. different perspective. as is said' one man's terrorist, is another man's martyr.'
or as Hitler once said “history is always written from the point of view of the Victor'.
it always was like this. and will always will be.
While watching all the media coverage about how Indian government should now petition America to put pressure on Pakistan to get dawood ibrahim kaskar . or launch a strike against him the way they did to get Osama bin Laden .
and I said how naive can we get. America is not against terrorism or terrorists. it's against acts of terrorism against Americans . They would spend billions of dollars and sanction huge manpower to avenge acts of terrorism against their people and their land. and rightly so. the American government owes its foremost responsibility to the American people and not to the world at large.( unless of course it involves oil, money or other form of materialistic profit. but then that is being overly cynical. )
but the point that emerges from all these actions of the Western superpowers, is, why create these ' bhasmasurs '? any follower of modern history is well aware that these so-called evil creatures are created by them because it suits their purpose at that point of time. idi amin 'dada ' Was regarded by his British superiors as an iconic figure with tremendous leadership qualities that could help uganda ( till one-day he flexed his muscles and thumbed his nose at the white masters. And then he suddenly became this cannibal monster.) Saddam Hussein was promoted, trained, funded by America when it suited them to use him against a belligerent iran of ayatollah khomeini . just weeks before his invasion of kuwait ( which historically was a part of Iraq,till the British decided to hive it off for their own personal reasons) he was seen hobnobbing with the American Secretary of State/ Defence Secretary or somesuch in baghdad. now the ex-Satan incarnate Osama bin laden was promoted, funded, trained and otherwise amply supported by the Americans because he was fighting against the Russians in afganistan , and he was a good weapon to promote underground to do their own dirty work on the ground.
all these guys, and many others only became evil when they continued to do the same thing but now against their previous Masters. same people. same actions. different perspective. as is said' one man's terrorist, is another man's martyr.'
or as Hitler once said “history is always written from the point of view of the Victor'.
it always was like this. and will always will be.
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