Reflections on the "New American" Revolution
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Barracks blast injures 41 US troops: "Forty-one US troops and six Iraqi civilians were wounded in a suicide car bombing outside a barracks near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul today."
Why does this concern me? Because we are stepping up a secret war against the Iraqi resistance, and they are stepping up the war against our troops. We are heading for a sharp escalation of the war. (And it is a war. The Iraqi's planned this resistance before we invaded. This is their battle plan to fight the invasion.)
The Iraqi's won't stop attacking our troops when we fence in their villages with razor wire. They won't stop when we destroy the houses of suspected terrorists. They won't stop when we assassinate suspected resistance people or kidnap their families. (Fellow Americans, this is what we are doing in Iraq under our campaign to "take the fight to the enemy"--in case you don't know what your government is doing in your name.)
Israel has been doing all this for 3 years and it hasn't stopped suicide bombing there. It makes the occupied hate the occupiers more.
Sure, it may stop someone who is planning an attack, but imagine how you would feel if someone who had invaded your country came to your town, cut off all the roads and wrapped the whole place in razor wire, said you couldn't get out unless you got one of their id cards, made you drive through the same road to get out and checked your id coming in and going out? Or how would you feel if they bulldozed the house next door, because one of the people who lived there had attacked them?
Would you feel grateful? Would you experience freedom? Would you feel safer? Would you feel more peaceful? I don't think so. Even if you were in favor of them occupying your country, this would set you against them. Because it is inhuman. And it's illegal collective punishment.
We're going seriously down the wrong path. And we are acting in the depraved manner of terrorists ourselves with plans to assasinate people (extrajudicial killings is the Israeli weasel word for these officially sanctioned murders), kidnap families, destroy homes and make concentration camps out of villages.
If you don't agree with me, perhaps you can honestly tell me: What does any of this have to do with creating democracy? And I mean, honestly. I can tell you the administration spin, and it's totally bogus.
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