Saturday, February 03, 2007
dearly beloved
“Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath” (Romans 12:19)
The hatemongers find that the American public is like a big stupid dog you can easily “sic” on whoever you like. Just tell them that a people are evil and that we need to go to war for our protection. Those of us who don't want our country drug into some fools war will be labeled “unpatriotic.” All human beings are the same. All are capable of violence. Dropping bombs on people is murder but only in reference to other nations. When America does these things, they are “liberating.” When Genghis bush decides to rain death on another country nothing can be allowed to stand in his way. Rumsfeld said that civil war would break out if we withdraw from Iraq and then he says that in case of civil war we won't interfere. What use it is to have US soldiers in Iraq if they won't be deployed in a genuine national emergency.
When bush is stumping for his war he tells us that “Democracies are peaceful”, or “Democracies don't attack one another.”
It’s foolishly inaccurate when applied to the US: The US and Britain overthrew a democratically elected government and installed the Shah of Iran in 1953; The US funded the contras as an insurgency against the democratic government of Nicaragua. The list could continue for some length.
The Pentagon’s plan commits us to promoting democracy through preemptive war. There is no peace gained by war. How are we Americans, the most violent nation in the world, qualified to bring peace to another culture we have never understood? We have turned a blind eye to the terror in our own streets, in our own neighborhoods, in our own homes to fly to another culture and add to their terror, in the name of our God. We have spent billions of dollars for this war machine, to benefit a few warmongers. What’s the evidence of our peaceful culture, of our qualification to go teach others, to wage war on mothers in another land? The Iraqi resistance to the destruction and domination of their country is regarded as “terrorism” by the invading American state. The US provides potential adversaries reason to get nukes or be attacked.
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” Abraham Lincoln
The hatemongers find that the American public is like a big stupid dog you can easily “sic” on whoever you like. Just tell them that a people are evil and that we need to go to war for our protection. Those of us who don't want our country drug into some fools war will be labeled “unpatriotic.” All human beings are the same. All are capable of violence. Dropping bombs on people is murder but only in reference to other nations. When America does these things, they are “liberating.” When Genghis bush decides to rain death on another country nothing can be allowed to stand in his way. Rumsfeld said that civil war would break out if we withdraw from Iraq and then he says that in case of civil war we won't interfere. What use it is to have US soldiers in Iraq if they won't be deployed in a genuine national emergency.
When bush is stumping for his war he tells us that “Democracies are peaceful”, or “Democracies don't attack one another.”
It’s foolishly inaccurate when applied to the US: The US and Britain overthrew a democratically elected government and installed the Shah of Iran in 1953; The US funded the contras as an insurgency against the democratic government of Nicaragua. The list could continue for some length.
The Pentagon’s plan commits us to promoting democracy through preemptive war. There is no peace gained by war. How are we Americans, the most violent nation in the world, qualified to bring peace to another culture we have never understood? We have turned a blind eye to the terror in our own streets, in our own neighborhoods, in our own homes to fly to another culture and add to their terror, in the name of our God. We have spent billions of dollars for this war machine, to benefit a few warmongers. What’s the evidence of our peaceful culture, of our qualification to go teach others, to wage war on mothers in another land? The Iraqi resistance to the destruction and domination of their country is regarded as “terrorism” by the invading American state. The US provides potential adversaries reason to get nukes or be attacked.
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” Abraham Lincoln
