To win 'war on terror,' U.S. should mind its business

Editor,

On April 27, the international press reported that the president of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, told the U.S. and the U.K. to leave the Taliban alone.

A few hours later, the U.S. media reported that the Taliban and al-Qaida had attempted to assassinate Karzai.

Here in the U.S. homeland, there was a complete news blackout on the first part of the story. According to the Bush administration, al-Qaida in Pakistan has reconstituted its pre Sept. 11 operational capabilities in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

On the evening of Sept. 11, President George Bush said, "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them."

If al-Qaida has a safe haven in Pakistan, what happened to the Bush doctrine? What a farce.

CIA head Michael Hayden says the U.S. considers itself a nation at war in pursuit of terrorists wherever they are.

Of course, he wasn't talking about terrorists in Pakistan, but terrorists in Iran. If Iran is meddling in Iraq, then what do you call what the U.S. is doing?

U.S. forces are giving weapons and financial aid to the Sunni Sons of Liberty in Iraq. Most stupid is the fact that Americans have no idea Iran signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, giving them the right to enrich uranium. Or that in 1953, the U.S. assassinated the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mosaddeq, because he nationalized the oil industry.

Mosaddeq was replaced with a tyrant. After the regime change in 1979, the U.S. threw its support behind Saddam Hussein.

For months, we have been hearing that violence in Iraq is down. U.S. troop deaths in Iraq has hit seven a month, not to mention the invisible deaths of Iraqi civilians.

It has been five years since Bush declared "mission accomplished." When Bush attacked Iraq, the price of a barrel of oil was $20; it's now near $120.

The war on terror isn't about oil, weapons of mass destruction or democracy. It is about the Zionist regime in Israel.

According to the three presidential candidates, it is outrageous and offensive to suggest that the Sept. 11 attacks were blowback.

The best way to stop the blowback of terrorist tactics would be to stop screwing around with other nations, their elected leaders and their natural resources.

Brian Fejer

UNM alumnus