War is not fought unless you have a palpable enemy, which threatens you, or impedes the fulfilment of "national interest", which often is misused by chronic "war mongers" to justify "egoistic" personal ambitions. Interest is what nation defines through a well-deliberated consensus. It is unlike George Bush's impulsive war on terror, which was unleashed on the hapless people of Afghanistan, in less than twelve hours after the 9/11 tragedy and subsequently on Iraq. The result is the humiliation of a "super power", which has a fighting machinery of frightening proportion, proving what Thomas Hardy said, "Mighty to build and blend, but impotent to tend." The failure of any mighty military force, unless backed by strong moral sentiments, is but inevitable. Vietnam War was a lesson for America to refrain from "unjust" war. But history tells us that one does not learn from "history" and consequently it tends to repeat itself. Empires are built on the pillars of injustice contrived sense of righteousness and violence to demonstrate awe and invincibility. Nemesis, however, follows its own course slow and imperceptible, but steered towards a definite outcome. Roman Empire exists only in history books. The British Empire, where sun never set, ironically indeed, it hardly now rises within its territory. "America" according to John McCain, Republican contender for Presidential nomination says, "Since the dawn of our republic, Americans have relieved that our nation was created for a purpose." "We are," as Alexander Hamilton said, "a people of great destinies. From the American Revolution to the Cold War, Americans have understood their duty to serve a cause greater than self-interest and to keep faith with the eternal and universal principles of the Declaration of Independence. By overcoming threats to our nation's survival and to our way of life and by seizing history's great opportunities, Americans have changed the world" (Foreign Affairs Nov-Dec 2007, p 19). The world has changed, no doubt, but it is a chaotic one. Tyranny looms large and human compassion is the worst casualty. Indeed, the great American forebears had fought against the menace of colonialism and George Washington was a hero, acknowledged and appreciated by all freedom loving people of the world. USA's soft power did generate tremendous temptation to seek better quality of life by seeking "Green Card" to settle in the land of great opportunities. It is an utterly wrong assumption by Bush that the so-called "radical Islamists" hate the American way of life, or as McCain contends that there exists threats to our nation's survival and way of life. McCain, if he at all succeeds to be the Republican president, he would prove to be a clone of his predecessor. Americas' image, despite being world's super power and militarily rather impossible to be defeated, but despised nevertheless by a good number of the nations of the world. Michael Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas, and now out of the presidential nomination race of the Republican party, rightly identifies that USA "is more vulnerable to the animosity of other countries," and is critical of the Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality, which has been counter productive at home and abroad (Foreign Affairs Jan-Feb 2008, p 155). Bush degraded the lofty image of America, under the evil influence of the Neocons, who are the inheritors of fascist philosophy, who eulogized Bonaparte's image as Emperor. The philosophical lineage of this cult originates from Feuerbach, Hegel and Nietzsche's writings, which promoted fascist ideologies of the post World War II. The most notable descendent was the Zionist scholar Leo Strauss at Chicago University, who specialised in the philosophy of Hobbes famous for his perverted image of man as "short and brutish" and subservience to absolute power that led to the "Dionysiac terror of twentieth century fascist movements, conforming the view: homunus, homini lupas est (in Latin) i.e., "human is to human society like a wolf." The Neocon cabal, comprising Dick Cheney and the rest, being disciples of Strauss, have contributed to the misfortune of George Bush in waging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which are hardly wars in the true sense of the term. These are acts of wanton killing, gross violation of human rights and colossal crimes against humanity and state terrorism all in the name of "war on terror", when the objective is far different from what is professed. Wars are not fought through concocted lies, deceit and distortion of reality to camouflage the "greed" for oil of the Muslim countries. Is this way of life and the virtues of the western civilisation. Bush is so concerned about to preserve, which according to him, the Radical Islamists, termed "terrorists" are out to destroy. The US citizens have a right to know the truth, and President Bush has to get off his chest as to what propelled him to launch the senseless wars against Iraq, as well as Afghanistan, before he leaves the prestigious White House. Did his people vote for him (even that is controversial) to squander three trillion dollars of the tax payers' money for wars that proved to be total disasters, besides ruining USA's robust economy and incurring heavy debt to fuel his lustful ambitions, causing a very threatening prospect of recession in the country. Why? What for? The citizens must also know why they were manipulated through ubiquitous media to create paranoia like state-of-mind against Bin Laden and men of his ilk, as demons of inconceivable proportions to be destroyed through bunker-busters, high altitude bombings and sophisticated weapons, killing over a million Iraqis and around 4000 American soldiers. According to Timothy Gatho, in his write-up War on Terror is a lie, candidly states, "We have destroyed their infra-structure and pay Halliburton, Cheney's company to put the country back together with no bid contracts. We threaten Iran with attack for having the audacity to build a nuclear power reactor. The Empire, which once overthrew their infant democracy and reinstated the Shah, now tells the people of Iran what they can and cannot do. Meanwhile, the Empire is selling nuclear secrets to India, Turkey and is the foremost owner of nuclear weaponry. How insane is this logic" (Counter currents.org, reproduced, The Nation March 16, 2008). USA is the architect of authoritarian rules in Iran, as well as Pakistan and other Muslim countries. Rannie Amiri in his article US disdain for Mid East Democracy, rightly contends: "The authoritarian rule of the Shah, ruthlessly enforced by his CIA and Mossad-trained Savak Secret Police, ultimately gave rise to the 1979 Islamic Revolution and put an end to the line of those occupying the Peacock Throne" (Counter punch, The Nation April 5, 2008). The story has not ended and the same strategy is still being unfortunately followed to further reinforce the rule of the clergy, even though Iranians might prefer relatively modern policy of the reformists like Rafsanjani. In Pakistan, democracy was murdered by recurrent imposition of martial laws, by General Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan, Ziaul Haq and General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, who all were loyalists of USA and the present incumbent as president has been discarded by the verdict of the people on February 18, 2008, but yet George Bush is adamant to impose him upon the present democratic government, to serve the US interests. The tragic fate of all three who preceded the president is well known to the world. Moreover, Al-Qaeda and Taliban were the "freedom fighters" when they were engaged in the heroic war against the then Soviet Union formidable power and pushing the Red Army from the soil of Afghanistan. Ironically, these are now despised as radical Islamists and Terrorists. USA is no longer "a light unto the world", nor what Americans prided in calling their country "a city upon a hill." There is a general concern, among other countries of the world, that the "vicious determination" to dominate the world, by USA and Israel are the greatest impediments to global peace. If peace is being pursued as a determined state policy it is by China, which has unequivocally conveyed to the world that "50 years of peace" is the imperative of the time. USA, on the other hand is pursuing a reverse of this policy so that through war, it could achieve its well-conceivable nefarious designs of plundering the oil wealth of the Muslim world, by crating a stereotype radical Islam which is being whipped up not only by the Neocon cabal, but even by strategic thinkers like Henry Kissinger, who says, "Today, it is radical Islam that threatens the already brittle state structure via a fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran as the basis of universal political organisation" (Tribune Media Services Inc. Nation April 8, 2008). Radicals in the Islamic world are the creation of the US policy to humiliate and degrade the Palestinians, by Israel a cultivated terrorist state. The Kashmiris, struggling for freedom are dubbed as "terrorists", and US supports it, as India happens to be its strategic partner and a counter-weight against China. There is no mention of Jewish fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists and Hindu fundamentalists. Discriminative perception is what terrorism is. It is no enemy in itself, but only a technique of war truly speaking a weapon of the weak. E-mail: fr786pak@isb.comsats.net.pk