An Appeal to Silent Academics

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Leading experts both in the East and the West are requested to give the following facts some serious thought before continuing support of the illegal war and occupation of Afghanistan with their words or with their continued silence.

It is always the academic circles, which pave the way and provide final legitimacy to acts of aggression on the part of politicians and military leaders or pave the road for peace. In the present day world, most of the academic experts in international relations and political science are either silent or have put Afghanistan on the back-burner in the sense that they have accepted its occupation perfectly legitimate.

This act of granting legitimacy to occupation of Afghanistan is the root of all subsequent problems. Leading experts both in the East and the West are requested to give the following facts some serious thought before continuing support of the illegal war and occupation of Afghanistan with their words or with their continued silence.

What is illegal, irrational and illegitimate will remain so, regardless of the political rhetoric and support of the military power behind it. Might never makes a wrong right. In the end, the silent and vocal supporters of the illegitimate occupation of Afghanistan will be condemned in the pages of history as accomplices of modern day fascists.

It is not just the matter of present. The so-considered leading lights in the academia will be tested on the basis of the consequences their directly or indirectly supporting a war of aggression and occupation of Afghanistan.
There is unimaginable amount of evidence available to prove that the United States could not possibly decide on and launch a war of aggression against Afghanistan in a matter of 25 days. Planning and implementing an invasion of this scale takes resources, human effort and, most importantly, time.

The easy-to-reach conclusion, even for those who do not believe in the official story of 9/11, is that the United States administration was motivated by the desire to procure and protect natural resources in Afghanistan. They, however, ignore the fact that Afghanistan has existed for a long time and that the United States could access natural resources in Afghanistan and elsewhere through other means. There was no shortage of ways to go about the oil and gas pipeline projects that Unocal and Halliburton sought to build across Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The question is: “Why did the United States administration wage a war of aggression against Afghanistan?” More importantly, why was this pipeline so important as to deliver a serious ultimatum through a United States Official, Tom Simons, telling the Afghan government (via the Pakistani delegation acting as their interlocutors): “Either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs”?[587]

Lee Coldren, a member of the United States delegation, confirmed the broader outline of the American position at the meeting in which this ultimatum was made: “I think there was some discussion of the fact that the United States was so disgusted with the Taliban that they might be considering some military action.”[588] One must not forget that these discussion and threats were made months before 9/11.

Niaz Naik, a former foreign secretary of Pakistan and a member of the Pakistani delegation in the July 2001 talks in Berlin, recalls that he was told that Washington would launch its operation from bases in Tajikistan, where American advisors were already in place. He was told that Uzbekistan would also take part and 17,000 Russian troops were also on standby.[589] In the face of all these facts, we must be fooling ourselves if we continue to believe that the United States had all these war plans in place and were threatening the Taliban with “carpet bombing” just because of oil and pipelines, or that Afghanistan is invaded and occupied as a consequence of 9/11. What if there was no 9/11? What would have been a convincing justification of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan without the 9/11?

When the argument that the United States invaded Afghanistan because of oil and energy needs turns on its head, others resort to concluding that it was the horror of 9/11 that forced the United States into launching a “defensive” war on Afghanistan. The aforementioned facts show that the Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11, and that getting Osama was not a good-enough justification for invading and occupying Afghanistan for an indefinite period. The invasion was planned before 9/11 and 9/11 was too sophisticated an operation for people living in caves in Afghanistan to put together and successfully implement to the last detail.

Everyone who loves peace on this earth earnestly wishes that this was a war for natural resources or it was in retaliation for 9/11. But, unfortunately, this is not the case. The emerging reports show that the motive was to not allow Muslims to get united as an Ummah and live by Islam.

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