U.S. actions suspect

Sir, - This refers to Mr. C. Raja Mohan's article `Return of realpolitik' (Sept. 27) wherein he rightly argues that with the terrorist attacks on the U.S., the brief post-Cold War decade of liberal illusions about the nature of international politics seems to have receded into the background. The U.S. has embarked on a new course of aggressive global action against terrorism, thereby bringing a return of familiar messy realpolitik to the forefront of world politics.

Whatever the pretensions on the part of the U.S. or its professed concern for protecting and promoting humanitarian values, it is not very difficult to discern the real motives behind the global campaign against terrorism. It appears that the situation affords it an opportunity to work out its blueprint for the unipolar world order dominated and dictated by it, no matter whether the existing geo-political entities survive in the midst of ethno- religious turbulence or not and whether international institutions of global cooperation such as the U.N. or for that matter international law do continue to be relevant or not.

Thus, while the drive to fight terrorism is fully justified and deserves all-out international cooperation, it should not be allowed to submerge other vital issues of global concern, such as freedom, democracy and human rights, nor should it lead to the dominance of a single power.

Prakhar Sharma,

Jaipur

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