Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Academic Politics and Political Academics

Claim: Political science is not compatible with real world and research carried out in universities and colleges and other educational institutions is mostly about modeling events happened in past.

Arguments:
  • There is a huge gape between theory and practice of political science. Scholars of political science have very little influence in everyday politics and on political parties.
  • Political science departments of universities of a country provide very small input or influence on the everyday politics of the country.
  • No matter how older and mature the political science departments of universities are, the country politics get nothing from this.
  • There is no such thing as political maturity or political advancement, like we say scientific and technological advancement. 
  • New generation politics in real world show very little maturity when compared to older generations politics.
  • Sometimes, the politics of newer generations are immature and stupid than the older generations politics.
For a case study, I can provide the example of USA politics, specially when it comes to wars and foreign policies. 
From the above points, it can be concluded that political science is just an intellectual luxury and brain-itching for some old professors which has very little to do with real world.
Most of the time, the theory of political science is rarely applied even in the office politics among the academic staff of the political science departments.
Isn't this strange or stupid?

Sunday, March 22, 2015

War of Drugs in Afghanistan

Taliban had completely stopped opium cultivation and product in their time, but when USA and NATO arrived, the opium cultivation and production started again, and now Afghanistan is the biggest opium producer. USA and NATO couldn't stop even the opium production, while Taliban were successful in stopping the ugly drug production. Some people say that it was USA which restarted opium production to handle the re-rising Russia by infecting its population. And it is not a big secret that the biggest victim of Afghan opium is Russian population.

So, a few questions arise:
  • Why couldn't USA successfully stop opium production?
  • USA spends hundreds of billions of dollars each year on fighting Taliban, but couldn't' provide economic incentive and alternatives to Afghan population to not cultivate opium. Why?
  • Taliban were successful in stopping opium production, but USA arrival restarted it. Was this happening with USA consent? 
  • The biggest victim of Afghan opium is Russian population. Isn't it provide a strong argument that it was USA to stop Russia from rising by infecting its population with drugs?
  • Why westerns media thinks that USA is an angel and can't be the drugs producer?
  • Even if the USA is not the drug producer in Afghanistan, can it be completely cleared from the blame?

Pakistani Double Game with USA

USA had threatened Pakistan to send it to stone age if it didn't comply with specific demands from USA at start of the so called War on Terror in 2001. To USA amazement, Pakistan agreed to every demand. A few years later, USA started complaining about double game from Pakistan by helping some Taliban groups in secret.
Some questions arise:
  • Was Pakistan really playing a double game?
  • Pakistan was forced in the war it didn't want. Wasn't a double game expected from Pakistan?
  • Pakistan was held at gun point, why would USA not expect a double game, or stab-in-back from Pakistan?
  • Why USA didn't do anything major to stop Pakistan from the double game?

The double game costed USA the whole mulit-trillion dollar war in Afghanistan. The Taliban, who were fighting with primitive weapons, could not be properly defeated in more than 13 years of war. USA and NATO forces fought in Afghanistan for more than 13 years, and spent trillions of tax-payers dollars, but didn't got much.
USA and NATO couldn't even stop the opium production in Afghanistan which had restarted after their arrival.
So, the whole war on terror in Afghanistan was a complete failure. And apparently, USA didn't tried to save the war at all.

Selective Nuclear Proliferation 2

There a big debate about proliferation of nuclear technology by Pakistan with different countries. I am not saying that this is incorrect. Pakistan may have shared nuclear technology with other countries.
But why only Pakistan?
Have not other countries also shared nuclear technology and materials with other countries?
Have not USA and European countries transferred nuclear know-how to Israel
From where did India got its nuclear technology?
Why USA signed a civilian nuclear deal with India which has a very poor safety record in nuclear reactors?
Why don't the major nuclear powers significantly reduce nuclear arsenals at the same time?
Why is nuclear bombs safe in hands of Israeli religious extremists while even nuclear reactors in Iranians are not safe or secure?
Why even NPT can't provide proper benefits for Iranians to have benefits of peaceful nuclear power production?
USA can't trust Iranians in any way, but was it trusting USSR during cold war?

Selective Nuclear Proliferation

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19770429&id=m8syAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8O0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1046,4645732&hl=enI was reading an old news paper on Google-news about Israeli nuclear arsenal. I took a snapshot and I am sharing it above.
This is a bit strange. American politicians are too much worried about safety of Pakistani and Chinese nuclear materials, while whole ships full of uranium go disappeared from Europe.
Isn't this a little extra-ordinary or selective?