The Flying Carpet to Baghdad
Author= Hala Jaber
Publisher= Pan Macmillan, London
Year of Publication= 2010
Price= $ 7.99
[courtesy: The Education Today ; Bangalore]
Calamity, destruction, misery and tragedy always follow the War. During and in the aftermath of War, human loss is reduced to mere statistics, usually the mainstream media neglects the human cost of war focusing on other issues. After the Second World War, mankind witnessed numerous wars of varying nature in which millions vanished in thin air without trace, whose life, tragedies, miseries, plight and agony yet remains to be documented. In the tussle for hegemony between the Two Super Powers during Cold War the sufferings of humankind were unaccounted, and after the end of Cold War in 1990s with the breakdown of U.S.S.R, the world turned into a unipolar one, with Uncle Sam reigning supreme, who quite early discovered the New Enemy in Muslims who were in dire need of discipline and democracy, hence the need for undertaking the civilizing mission in the garb of operation democracy was felt, which happened clandestinely before the tragedy of 9/11 and overtly in its aftermath in the form of brutal invasions of Afghanistan and then lately of Iraq.
