Deception game

Deception game

Dr. Jassim Taqui

The political parties and various power centers pursue a classic deception game in the ongoing power struggle witnessed by the political scene. The objective is obvious. Each party aims  at propagating beliefs in things that are not true or not the whole truth in a bid to distract others from its real agenda. Thus, it becomes increasingly difficult to take the pronouncements of  power centers seriously.

In modern times, the Americans used a classic deception to make the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussain invade Kuwait in August, 1990 to disseminate his army and cripple his economy being the victor in 8 8 years long Iran-Iraq war.

The then US Ambassador to Iraq Ms. April Glaspie informed Saddam Hussain that the United States did not have any defence treaties with Kuwait and never intervened in internal Arab disputes when Hussain deployed his forces on the border with Kuwait to invade it.

Hussain took that statement as an American green signal to invade Kuwait. Subsequently, he gave the signal to  his troops to invade Kuwait and was about to advance towards the adjacent Saudi Arabia when the US disseminated his troops and liberated Kuwait.

Only recently, the former British  Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted that he concocted intelligence reports with the help of the Bush administration showing that Iraq possessed mass destruction weapons. The result was the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

In Pakistan AQ Khan used a classic method to steal top secret blueprints to make the nuclear weapons as deterrent to Indian nuclear program. However, Khan used sophisticated deception to establish a black market nuclear network; deceiving all national security agencies.

The examples are many. However, the lesson  that must be learnt is that : don’t believe all what you read or hear. Power centers are determined to deceive  you!