Can a Political Regime Be Exported by Means of Military Might?

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/en/can-a-political-regime-be-exported-by-means-of-military-might/

The withdrawal of NATO troops stationed in Afghanistan has recently come to a stage of termination.

At the same time, voices of justifying the occupation of Afghanistan by NATO troops in the past are raised among the Western politicians saying that NATO has fulfilled its mission satisfactorily and the stationing of NATO troops in Afghanistan has provided new generations of this country with an opportunity to grow up in better environment.

If so, how much has Afghanistan developed for the past 20 years under “more favourable circumstances” bestowed by NATO.

The Western mass media commented that the future of Afghanistan is unstable although the military operation of NATO in Afghanistan is drawing to an end and the West-backed Afghanistan is reduced to the most corrupt country in the world.

A Western left-wing figure called special attention to the moves of NATO which are not only insignificant but also even devoid of moral responsibility by pointing out that “counter-terrorism” waged by NATO is a failure and it is not good for NATO to depart, leaving the dilapidated country behind.

On the other hand, experts raise strong doubts about the necessity of NATO’s existence, considering its deep-seated vice, which conducts military intervention and washes its hands of its catastrophic consequences.

One of the Asian political commentators emphasized in his writing that if NATO-an organization which should have already been dissolved-stretches its tentacles to the Pacific beyond the Atlantic, then it means nothing but agony, pointing out that most of the NATO’s military operations including the bombing raids on former Yugoslavia in 1999 and air raids on Libya in 2011 were obviously illegal in terms of international law and technicality as they were neither actions for self-defense nor actions approved by UN Security Council.

Recently, a well-known Serbian cancer expert published a shocking survey result that Serbia’s annual death toll from cancer is the highest in Europe and 60,000 patients are diagnosed as cancer annually, which is due to NATO’s use of depleted uranium bomb during its air raid on Yugoslavia in 1999-an internationally prohibited conduct.

Historically, NATO has conducted military intervention into other countries one after another under the pretext of “freedom and democracy” or “peace and stability”.

However, social evils i.e. armed conflict, terrorism and refugee issues run rife wherever NATO treads upon, causing rage and indignation among people of the country and region of its residence.

Therefore, even Western mass media comment that NATO is well-advised, on this occasion of its withdrawal from Afghanistan, to extricate itself, even belatedly, from its absurd way of thinking that it can export its political regime to other countries by military means.

This is nothing short of stark dissection of true intention of NATO that has the nerve to talk about its future “international peace activities” even at the place of departure from Afghanistan.

Today, the international society has this to say:

NATO’s withdrawal is an absolute necessity; it shouldn’t have come in the first place, but, as it happened, wouldn’t it be wise to take care that its retreating figure at least would look nice?

 

Pak Hyon Song

Researcher of Society for International Politics Study