Al-Shoura [Archives:2003/627/Press Review]

9 March 2003
Main headlines:
– Intensive consultations on elections coordination, national alignment
– JMP discusses mechanism of implementing elections coordination
– Chairman of Woman Affairs Council foments women against political parties
– October 14 establishment journalists threaten with strike
– Arrest and chasing 14 Islah activists in Aden
Columnist Abdulla al-Sabri says in a front-page article that Iraq's crisis in 2003 is similar to its crisis of 1995. In both crises the world is at a state watching issuance of a veto against the war. Russia's inability of taking that decision had led to laying piles of the new unipolar world order. Nowadays, the big powers are trying, through the UN Security Council to restore balance to the world. Through their rejection of war on Iraq the big powers are trying to establish a multi-polar New World order. In the short-run perspective, it is difficult to suppose emergence of another power matching and facing America. This world incapability could urge the United States to prefer wars for securing its interests, ambitions and individual action as superpower. This could realize the American dream of rendering the 21-century a purely American one, provided that the remainder international forces keep being incompetent and hand-folded. Observers of the crisis can feel a change in the European, Russian and Chinese stands. But to express desires is something and work to carry them out is something else. How mush time does the world need to declare emergence of a new power say No to America? Would the American war on Iraq be the last of wars? Would this war lead to America's isolation with the world? And would this war stands as a tumbling stone against the American scheming towards Iran and North Korea and others? The answers to these questions would be left to the days.

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