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Page 3 of 3 In contrast the US top leadership i.e. President Bush avoided military draft in Vietnam and Vice -President Cheney was too busy with other important matters then the patriotic call to fight in Vietnam, which the two now impress upon American citizens . As Hersh pointed out from the days of President Bill Clinton and perhaps since recent decades, the professional American general has been emasculated and replaced by yes-man. The baits dangled are promotions in site and later employment in military industry complex.  Many major flaws, which have entered and are hollowing the American political structural and economic system and cannot be redressed by half measures. Look how the US Congress behaved and conducted itself, on the report on 911, where it has been reported that Pakistan was able to get a whitewash by bribing them. The lobbying system is too deeply entrenched into the entrails of American political structure .Bribing corrupt politicians can bring about policy decisions favoring vested interests. Sooner or later, something has to give in. After the 1962 debacle on India's border war with China, a number of Indian generals were removed. The man responsible for the mess defense minister Krishna Menon had to resign in spite of his being very close to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Other examples are in neighboring Pakistan. After years of wrong policy and misrule, especially in East Pakistan, when the people of that nation stood up for their rights and took to resistance, after the 1971 war with India and its denouement, the generals presiding over the destiny of Pakistan and responsible for the mess in East Bengal had to leave. The problems facing USA are not new in history. After ruling for a couple of centuries, when the Arab warriors, who fashioned an empire from Morocco to the borders of China, became drowned in the luxuries of the empire's wealth, and gave up the sword. For fighting, they hired Turkish nomad slaves as their sword men. Caliph Al-Mu'tasim, whose mother was Turkish, was an effective soldier and administrator but his reign marks the introduction into Iraq of an alien Turkish military class, which was to dominate the political life of the country for centuries to come. From then Iraqi Arabs were rarely employed in military positions, though they continued to be influential in the civil administration. The Turks assumed the title of sultan (literally, 'the holder of power'), originally a minor office. The Arabs had lost 'Furussiya', which comes from the word 'faras', which means horse, in Arabic. (Like bushido and chivalry from French 'Cheval'- horse) which included military skills and martial arts. The removal of military draft has removed that inbred association with the Armed forces .Like the Abbasid Caliphs, the US elite has become disconnected from strategic realities .Would the decisions have been different if the President and his deputy had gone to Vietnam or the children of top Pentagon decision makers were soldiers. Not many generals reportedly have their sons fighting in Iraq.  The Arabs had lost 'Furussiya', which comes from the word 'faras', which means horse, in Arabic. (Like bushido and chivalry from French 'Cheval'- horse) which included military skills and martial arts. 
In USA, the Blacks and Hispanics who have a higher proportional representation in the Armed Forces, but do not have similar share in the wealth of the country, would sooner or later clamor for a more equitable system. After the Iraq war, Black is refusing recruitment as cannon fodder. The Hispanics are already showing strength by protesting in many hundreds of thousands for immigration rights to stop being exploited. It is not coincidence that many US politicians had to refuse an office when it turned out that they had hired illegal immigrant labor to save on social security and other taxes.
A new strategy is emerging; globalization and privatization of the war effort. Introduction of a new category of highly paid mercenaries, called security consultants to fight for the United States. These private mercenary contingents are a mixed bag, consisting, for instance, ex-Rhodesian commandos, former British SAS , amnestied Colombian paramilitaries, Gurkhas, dismissed personnel who were in the service of Augusto Pinochle's dictatorial regime in Chile, French Foreign Legion-type irregulars , employed by the apartheid regime in South Africa also deployed to annihilate black resistance groups and now engaged from time to time by trans-national corporations to suppress native aspirants of economic freedom in mineral-rich Africa, etc. It is rumored that. Mafia groups from Sicily and other parts of south Italy, desperate to don the mantle of respectability, have also come forward to help the American war effort. It is a motley crowd, with little in common, certainly not patriotism. These trained killers come as a package of subsidies. In some places, they have become a law of into themselves. Some carried out torture interrogations unbound by any law .It is as a result of their activities and reprisals against them that Falluja was invaded the first time .The second invasion was to teach the Falluja a lesson and US created a Guernica . Perhaps these mercenaries could be treated like enemy combatants as defined by US authorities. Few conventions and rules of war are likely to survive under this Administration. The US polity needs a very thorough overhaul. Editors Note: Above article last part of three parts special features by MWC News Society + Culture editor, K Gajendra Singh.  K Gajendra Singh, served as Indian Ambassador to Turkey and Azerbaijan in1992 -96. Prior to that, he served as ambassador to Jordan (during the1990 - 91Gulf war), Romania and Senegal. He is currently chairman of the Foundation for Indo-Turkic Studies. The views expressed here are his own.
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