By Guest Post • May 29th, 2009 at 16:15 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War
WRITTEN BY ALI BULAC
A rather long period of time has passed since the Obama administration took office. Before US President Barack Obama was elected, he had created many hopes around the world.
In his election campaigns he gave priority to “ideal politics,” but now it seems that he has given in to “real politics.” Everyone agrees that the US will and must play a positive role in the settlement of existing problems. But it does not seem eager to play that role.
Those who expect the US to play this positive role say to themselves that the US is not as it appears now. By saying that the US is what it currently appears to be, they are actually saying that the US should not be how it currently is. The history of madness of the US that occupied Iraq has yet to be ended. Three hundred million people (the US nation) should not be so merciless toward a nation that is dying of hunger and poverty. Even if the US administration continues to strike Iraq despite UN resolutions and the objections of millions of people, we should assume that these developments do not exhaust what the US nation stands for.
Being an experienced politician, former Algerian President Ahmad Ben Bella says that the anti-war discourse, rallies and protests around the world are not particularly effective. For Bin Bella, the sole power that can persuade the existing US administration away from a violent war is the US public. Indeed, at some point the US public ensured that its weight was felt and terminated the tyrannical war in Vietnam.
The number of US citizens who share our concerns for the war in Iraq, the lives of civilians and stopping the world from heading toward a new disaster is not small. As if the situation in Iraq and Palestine were not enough, another hell has emerged in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hundreds of thousands of people had clearly shown that they were against war and organized enormous rallies. But former President George W. Bush and his team did not backpedal.
Yes, this is not the US that created a pool of blood in the region with arguments on oil, arms and religion. It should not be this. The destructive role of the US should be rejected in the first place by US citizens. Being the homeland of conservative families who fled the religious and sectarian wars of Europe, of the Puritans and devout people, and of people who fear God, the US has long served as a model for freedom of religion and conscience.
The US has become the center of attraction for people around from the world as a country of freedom and opportunity. But today it has abolished freedoms and democratic ideals for purposes of security. The descendants of those put Japanese concentration camps during World War II are now treating almost every Muslim as a potential terrorist.
It is generally accepted that the war the US has been waging against Iraq, Afghanistan and now Pakistan does not have a sound or legitimate basis. Bush was determined to rule the world on his own. He paid no heed to any objection or opposition. The damage he did to the general concept of law was irreparable. Bush disrupted legal rules and the rule of law. When he failed to provide material justifications for war, he resorted to a strange method. The Bush administration accused Iraq of having weapons of mass destruction and demanded that Iraq prove it did not have any. Then he said things that were hard to comprehend: "That there is no evidence concerning weapons of mass destruction does not mean there are no weapons of mass destruction." It was like saying to a person who was examined by a physician and found to be perfectly healthy, "The fact that there is no evidence or symptom for illness does not mean that you are not ill."
The US did not win the war in Iraq, and it is again waging another war that it cannot win in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In this way it is doing the greatest damage to the conscience of humankind by inciting its hatred. If this hatred leads to incorrigible racism, then our world will turn into a place dominated not only by hawks, but also by sick people. The faith put in Obama is about to run out. We hope that he will not be too late to compensate for the damage done by Bush.
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