Legalization of invasion & destruction
Editors, Asheville Global Report,
President George Bush waited until the first annual
anniversary of the events of Sept. 11 to ask the leaders of
the world, who reject a strike on Iraq, to move and face the
danger that stands in the way of the peace, according to his
claim. In a new attempt to find justifications to invade Iraq,
our president asked Baghdad to implement his impossible conditions.
He chose a school of thinking adopted by his Secretary of Defense
(trend ahead), i.e. to prepare to go on the offensive and take
risks. The start was in Afghanistan.
Since the events of Sept. 11 (which targeted the
US symbols of power), when innocent victims were killed, our
president followed a policy of oppression, tyranny and subjugation
against Arabs and Muslims. Now, he wants to carry the war to
Iraq in order to further the revenge he declared a few hours
after the explosion of the first plane in his famous speech
which referred to a “crusade.” The PR experts and diplomats
have tried to lessen the aggressive accent of our president
towards Arabs and Muslims. They claimed it to be a misspelling
or inexperience of language and vocabulary.
Before the General Assembly came the last speech
of the president, leaving us with no doubt that his rhetoric
was not an accident, but a clear intention to declare a war
against Arabs, Muslims and the Islamic organizations.
The events of Sept. 11 changed the current of
US foreign policy. Every day after these events expresses this
administration’s hatred towards Arabs and Moslems. It practices
all kinds of economic pressures and military threats besides
the psychological, information and political wars. In the name
of freedom, justice, democracy and human rights, Washington
has violated the most basic human rights. It has persecuted
Arabs and Muslims everywhere, launching brutal campaigns against
Islamic countries which were considered some of the biggest
American allies. It accused more than one billion and two hundred
millions Muslims. Contrary to US laws and international norms,
those accused, and even entire nations, have to prove their
innocence because American institutions find it difficult to
prove guilt, especially in the case of Iraq.
(…)This administration is ignoring all evidence,
all logic, and all international standards of conduct to impose
an American hegemony. Since the events of September, the Pentagon
has adopted a central role in defining the concepts, values
and issues of US foreign policy. (…)Amid the crowds gathered
to mark the anniversary of the victims of the World Trade Center,
Bush stood to recite the speech of “sure victory” in Afghanistan.
He avoided admitting that the Afghani dream could be changed
into an American nightmare. He preferred to flee ahead towards
Baghdad. And to avoid another expected setback, the American
generals insist nowadays on declaring the death of “Bin Laden”
and on the safe return of American troops to their families.
We Americans live in an unprecedented situation
of fear and anxiety, thinking that our country is going to be
subject to more strikes from unknown enemies, knowing nothing
about the time or place of attack. But our government has refused
to look at our own policy and history to discuss the reasons
that led to such widespread hatred of the US. It has also neglected
to search for the best ways to protect the security of our airports,
towers, and nuclear weapons, but has instead focused on carrying
the battle to a supposed enemy outside the country.
(…) In the light of Arabic and Islamic responses
to this quest for US empire, and with the increase of international
anger towards a policy of arrogance and revenge that will influence
the destiny and the future of the world, there are assuredly
other setbacks waiting for the US. The world’s resistance to
these empire builders will increase their enemies, not only
in the Arabic and Islamic world, but also in the western world.
Washington is judging non-Americans in the entire world. It
also is blindly biased to the side of the criminal Sharon government.
So, the threat of invading Iraq is an introduction to the clash
of American tyranny with the rest of the world. Vengeance for
the innocent victims of Sept. 11 cannot take place by humiliating
and punishing other innocents, or by carrying friends to the
side of enemies. There were Americans gathered at the site of
the World Trade Center to honor the anniversary of the killing
of thousands of victims. They carried a banner that read “We
will never forget.” But WE want the peoples of the world to
never forget the millions of innocent victims who were killed
by American-Israeli wars in Vietnam, Palestine, Afghanistan,
Iraq and others places. (…)
Badi Ali Greensboro, North Carolina
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