The Evildoers!!!

11 September Five years since 911 It has been five years to the day when the world was shocked by the 911 WTC and the Pentagon acts of terror, the 'War on Terror' would then ensue. So what have we learnt from the lessons of Holy Jihadi terrorism? I have considered the nightmare of the world trade centre and the Pentagon bombings as anything but a Holy religious war against the Western Judeo-christian faith but something very politically and economically significant. The impact upon the global interpretation upon a certain semitic race of Middle Eastern peoples has left an indelible xenophobic aftertaste that has shrouded the globe. Riots in Sydney between Lebanese (Arabs) versus Anglo-Celtic surfies has been primarily motivated by externalised events. In London, localised resentful 'Pakis', as the local Bobbies disparaging refer to the Leeds Students turn suicide bombers, would be inspired by the martyred myopic tenacity of their religious kin, within the militant global networks, now generally referred to as 'Al Qaeda', have now become home grown terrorists. Religion almost has very little to justify the power struggles between a cultural elements of the seemingly oppressed subcultural groups within many western democracies throughout the globe. The dichotomy along a Marxian paradigm would make more rational sense to explicate the seemingly oppressed nature of the Islamic Jihadi condition, but, perhaps the anarchists would consider the primordial motivation of religious self interest, in a bellicose affirmation, as a best fit in asserting resoluteness from the paroxysm of Judeo-christianity tyranny. But, to simplify matters to the laity would simply view the global context from a child's perspective and in truth there is very little complicated jargon associated with the dichotomous mindset of political and military leaders from that of a child being bullyed at school by bigger and more dominant groups of people within the school playground. To get back at them the child being bullyed would resort to more devious schemings so as to 'get square'. It is to get back at the true purveyors of power; the exploiter of oil resources; the thieves of natural resources; the corruptor of cultural values, and belief systems; the usurper of true equitable justice and fairness; and, generally, in some way it is to assert some schoolboy 'respect' in the school yard. To gain this respect through the true inventor of 'Shock and Awe', the terrorists themselves, was to proffer a unsavoury 'respect', for the 'unknown quantity', the enigmatic nature of the Islamic Jihadi has gained the fear and resentment that they 'craved for'. They wanted the attention and have gained it in the most devastating effective way, through global media attention. However, what are the lessons being taught to us? Well, the war on Terror has revealed one valuable lesson about the human condition, it is the complete fallibilty of our reasoning processes so as to justify why we do harm to others; to commit so much power resources on destruction, and anarchic entropy throughout the world; and, then, wonder why the disparity between the haves and the have nots continue to increase. But, to take the high moral ground is merely idealistic fantasy entertained by mainly level one hundred university undergraduates studying in some 'bleeding hearts' liberal Arts degree. In the 'realpolitickal' world, where realism completely annihilates idealism, the imperfection of the human condition would reveal the humaness within us all, we get upset when something is not right in this world, when the predictable is no longer predictable, when expected functionalities are seemingly dysfunctional and so we react to the changes. The dynamism of global political behaviour reveals the newer paths never before considered by present day political leaders, moreover, 'historicists', and 'universality' political scientists, may then conjure up various epistemological deductive, and inductive, theories to explicate human nature based upon some historical tautological predictability. We then realise that despite the historical 'trends', the roads we pave is truly considered as globally politically signicant. Future political behaviour may be consdered incrementally derivative and truly unprecedented, the 'War on Terror', is such a new precedent in human history, that to resolve this systemic failure amy be analogically irrelevant, therefore, futue analysts just have to 'wing it', in incrementally resolving 'systemic failure', or entropic 'anarchy', on a global context. Needless to say, Lindblomian applications in foreign policy analysis may be considered as relevant as an effective approach to foreign policy analysis, for the Oval office, and the Security Council, to consider. Consequently, perhaps, the most relevant academic who can be considered as the most difficult to falisfy so easily may be Janis Irving, with his truthful consideration of 'Groupthink', explicating the rationale for the 'Weapons of Mass destruction', and for justifying the invasion of Iraq, and, perhaps, the real raison de tre, for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. To 'punish the evildoers', is as simple of a reason for comitting to a five year long war that has 'no fronts', no boundaries of spheres of influence for the enemy is really grown and nurtured from within, within our community, within our neighbours, within our own homes, and within our own minds. Tim Tufuga (B.A. University of Queensland) Crestmead, Logan City, Queensland. September 11