Second, China should invade Taiwan, its renegade state that they claim to be part of their province. Hong Kong should thank their stars for being peacefully integrated with Mainland China otherwise, they would have been forcefully integrated into the fold of communist controlled government which would have resulted in the loss of personal freedom, liberty and property ownership. After all, in a communist state, means of production and other properties are owned by the state and that explains why Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets pays the Chinese government some percentage of his multi-million dollar salary for playing in the capitalist NBA.

Third, India should use its size and strength to settle the Kashmir issue once and for all. They should send more than 20 million soldiers (approximately 3 percent of its population) across the Indian – Pakistani boarder to flush out the Islamic extremists that have tormented them over the years. They can use the services of its untouchables, their downtrodden citizens that have no power in the nation by offering their families monetary incentives for anyone that perished during the take over of Kashmir. Or they should grant, unconditionally, full citizenship with all its privileges to any untouchable that volunteer to serve in such war. By the way, India may or may not need a UN Security Council backing for this venture.

Remember that while the US, which is the last surviving super power is busy mopping and cleansing Iraq of remnants of Saddam Hussein and its prior engagement in Afghanistan, the rest of the world should mop and clean up all impediments to their well being or threat to their ways of life or economic interest. In this regard, Nigeria should not be left out of the equation. Nigeria, having lost its territorial case against Cameroon at the International court in The Hague, and assuming that Cameroon votes in the security country to authorize war against Iraqi people, Nigeria must act to protect and recoup its territory from Cameroon.

First, Nigeria should invade and annex southern Cameroon, which used to be part of British protectorate governed by Nigeria until the illegitimate and unauthorized deal that resulted in the loss of Nigerian land to Cameroon. Nigeria must do this with or without UN backing based on Bush doctrine of New World Order.

Furthermore, on another front, there seems to be unethical separation of people with shared culture and ancestry at play. During the colonial era, the colonizers had no sympathy to the natives’ interest as they drew geographic boundaries arbitrarily as long as it suits their interests. We have such arbitrary division in Nigeria between Nigeria and Cameron on one hand, and Nigeria and republic of Benin on the other. On the late, there are thousands of Yoruba speaking Nigerians who undoubtedly would like to be permanently reunited with their kindred in Nigeria.

On the economic front, Nigeria should attempt to retain and exploit the vast oil discovery off the Nigerian shore. If the new Iraqi war boarders on economic premise, the control of oil, then Nigeria has the right to wage its own oil war against Cameroon after all, the rule of the game is - the bigger fish must swallow the smaller fish, or should we use the Darwin principle of the survival of the fittest which is the corner stone of capitalism.

There are countless of other nations that could benefit from the current re-inventing and re-interpretation of the New World Order. Because of limited space, one would mention few: Ghana taking back the Ewes and their territory; Senegal takes over Gambia, South Africa takes over Lesotho and Swaziland, etc.

As one can see, everything would work out and no one can claim or raise moral issues at the UN or International World Court because no nation is fit to claim moral purity. We have to accept the fact that the fall of Soviet Union has ushered a New World Order. A lot of people thought that with the fall of communist USSR that the world would live in peace and harmony. Little do they know that the demise of USSR is a beginning of another era, dominated by the powerful at the demise of the less powerful.

With cold war in place, the major powers were mindful of war. None of the powers invaded each other’s territory for fear of retaliation. Today, it is a different ball game. Again, one can argue that Iraq did not develop its weapons of mass destruction alone. There are nations that supplied all the ingredients that were assembled into weapons of mass destruction and those nations that contributed to such program must equally be held accountable for arming hellhound Saddam Hussein.

Finally, war must not be the only option for a civilized settlement of scores. There are other viable options out there. War as an instrument of dispute resolution is what we witness daily among the developing nations and that is one of the reasons why they cannot progress beyond their current stagnant position dating from the time of their artificial creation by foreign elements. In war, the innocents suffer the most, the powerless; those that have no say whatsoever in the causes or the issues that precipitated the altercation in the first place. When bombing becomes unbearable, those leaders who are the centerpiece of the conflict always find exit plan by eloping into exile, perhaps untouched with millions of their countries wealth on tow – Mobutu Sese Seko, Ferdinand Marcos, "Papa Doc" Devalier and "Baby Doc" Devulier of Haiti, Mengisto of Ethiopia, Idi Amin of Uganda and the list goes on.

The current Iraq war is a gold mine for the powerful, a symbol of New World Order, and a paragon for twenty-first century dispute resolution when a nation feel harmed or purported to sense future harm from another nation. This is not just oil politics; it’s deeper than the eye could see.

March 2003