Colombo, Aug. 2 -- It has been almost 19 years since the USA, joined by its western allies (esp. the UK, Canada and Australia), launched the so-called global war on terror (GWOT) invading first Afghanistan, soon after 9/11 for Taliban government's sheltering of Al-Qa'ida and its leader OBL, and then Iraq (in 2003) under the false pretext of destroying the weapons of mass destruction, which did not exist there.

Under an orgy of unfathomed bigotry and heavy bombardment, never to be seen before, both the regimes were toppled and friendly regimes put by the invaders.

The Afghan invasion was code-named by the US as Operation Enduring Freedom (2001-14). The Iraqi invasion was codenamed "Operation Iraqi Freedom." These were rather odd code nam...