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In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, America naively asked in its stunned stupor, "Why do they hate us?" In consoling us, our fearless leaders appealed to our collective sense of superiority and self-righteousness by explaining that the Muslim world (a.k.a. "they") hate us because of what we stand for: freedom, democracy, Mom, baseball, and apple pie. Comforted, we patted ourselves on our collective back for being so gosh-darn wonderful and condemned the savage heathens who wanted nothing less than to destroy all that is right and good in the world — us.
Thanks to a recent confluence of events involving our interaction with the Muslim world, it is clear that "they" do hate us for what we stand for. Unfortunately, what we stand for is not freedom, democracy, nor any other high-minded ideal. Rather, we stand for arrogance, barbarism, and violence.
Sure. We talk a lot about freedom and democracy and bringing such enlightenment to the Muslim world. The thing is, we stop far-short of actually putting those ideals into practice. Instead, we look at the people of the Muslim world as being somehow inferior and not really deserving of the noble gifts so generously bestowed upon them by America the Almighty. But, as pitying nobility, bestow we must.
Take, for instance, our penchant for torturing, degrading, and dehumanizing Muslims whom we routinely round up as part of our never-to-end war on terror. We note how those silly, unenlightened Muslim men are ashamed by nudity, so we stack them naked in human pyramids. We force them to masturbate in front of a crowd of gawking U.S. soldiers, men and women. We smear them with shit, or, better yet, with what they believe to be menstrual blood, fresh from a female soldier’s crotch. We attach wires to their extremities and tell them, oh so teasingly, that if they move... zap!
We force them to dig their own graves, fire shots over their heads, and then laugh hysterically when the stupid sand-niggers realize in a mix of horror and relief that they really haven’t been executed. Then, after the sub-human Muslims finish wetting themselves like untrained dogs, we chuckle a bit more and let them go.
We desecrate their holy text and mock their religion in order to break their spirits during interrogation. We kick the Koran, piss on it, shit on it, cut it up with scissors. With Rumsfeld’s blessing, we confiscate their religious trinkets and forcibly shave their facial hair. But what’s the big deal? After all, ours, the Christian god, is the only true god. Theirs is but a false idol, undeserving of respect, much less of worship and adulation. Indeed, according to legend, our god is the benevolent protector and savior of America, our blessed nation. Theirs is but a blood-thirsty savage, worshiped by other dirty, smelly, blood-thirsty savages.
We march into towns like al-Qaim and Fallujah, ostensibly to rout out "foreign fighters" who for some reason use our occupation of Iraq as an excuse for waging Jihad. In the name of efficiency, however, we bomb entire neighborhoods to kill a handful of insurgents. Non-insurgent townspeople are forced to evacuate and live in ad-hoc refugee camps in the desert, leaving what little they have behind. They struggle to stave off thirst and starvation as they watch plumes of black smoke replace their homes. After we declare victory and withdraw, those whom we claim to be liberating return to towns reduced to rubble, without power, water, or sewer. Even the hospitals are gone. We blew them up to kill the insurgents rumored to be hiding inside.
Who cares that the "liberated" have nothing to return to, no water to drink, no food to eat, no hospital for when they become sick with dysentery or cholera? Not us. We only care that our military was successful and that insurgents died. If the "liberated" dare complain about such collateral matters as dead or wounded loved ones or homes reduced to rubble, we write them off as just a bunch of Muslim ingrates who fail to appreciate how lucky they are to receive American benevolence.
The results of our inherent distaste for the Muslim world are evident. Thousands of ungrateful Shiites took to the streets of Iraq denouncing the U.S. occupation of their country. In an act of contemptuous disrespect for their liberating benefactors, the godless Shiites painted the American flag on the steps of their houses of unholy worship, desecrating it with each passing step. How dare they step on our flag, blessed by our god?
How dare they, indeed.
Maybe next time terrorists attack the United States (and there will be a next time), we won’t be so stupid to ask, "Why do they hate us?"
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21 May 2005, 21:31
For the past 4 years I have been saying more or less the same as you have so eloquently stated. G.W.Bush is a fanatic, narrow-minded, bloodthirsty coward who is part of the True Believer dominionist reconstructionist neoconservative gang of people that want the US to rule the world. I don’t mean that they want to help lead it into democracy and freedom, etc., but into corruption, preemption, and endless wars so that corporations might profit from the killing of people..in this case Muslims, and that idiots like Jerry Falwell can tell you how to live your lives.
They have enormous rhetoric about caring for human life yet are willing, without hesitation to start a war on lies, on building up a sense of terror, on arrogance, on wholesale corruption. The plot to raid social security involves piratizing millions of separate accounts held in trust, turning them over to corporate financiers, and then laughing when they embezzle and betray that trust.
The reason why army recruitment is low is that few people are stupid enough to want to give their lives for oil, for corrupt Millenniums, for bloodthirsty draft-dodgers, and for tyrants who wish to change the constitution to suit their religious beliefs. A soldier must obey his commander in chief even if he is mad, cowardly, or seeking self-glorification. We know what happened to the classic fascists of Europe: Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco. They instituted the same sort of "security precautions" that the Bush administration is foisting upon the American public to the detriment of democracy. Years ago I visited Washington, strolling its streets, museums, galleries, government buildings without hindrance. Today the Bush family has made it a dungeon, and the Republicans have made it a simulacrum of Inquisition days. No one is safe. This is NOT due to Muslims, but to bloodthirsty egomaniacs who wish to rule the world.
Peter Fredsib
22 May 2005, 07:15
Oh how in the dark the most powerful nation on earth is. It is a country whose media is not in service to its citizens but to the agendas of personal profit that are driving the birthplace of modern democracy into a wall of unsustainable, undefined, and uninformed social policy. George Bush is not a man who has learned to apply knowledge to a responsible set of responsible goals that will encourange positive change in terms of the environment, sustainable energy systems, or social interaction and resource management models that will evolve humanity to a life support arrangement on earth that we most desperately need.
GW Bush is a product of the oligarchic structures of money and power, the very structures that have helped us as a species develop the concepts of global conflict through nuclear earth species death, global commerce, and finally global COLLAPSE on both the social and the ecological levels. Yes the supposed great institutions of learning are turning out leaders and visionaries who have not a clue about the realities in which they live except the realitics of the largely worthless ideals of profit, power, and the continued development of the military institualized behaviors which all non scientific, and profitable (money wise) control oriented cultrual development rather than ecological social development which is a social definition of reality of living on earth in peace with both the people and the earth planet.
Isn’t nice to know that a person that can be led to believe that confiict and domination are ok as long as I do not have to support it in the propganda model of presentation, and his children will not particiapte in the conflict for power, destruction of human opposition, and debt and death slavery is IN CONTROL of LAUNCHING NUCLEAR WEAPONS perhaps at other countries he and or his constituency may feel is going to negatively affect his potential profit model. Yes the human and earth destructive power of ultimate death for all and forever is in the hands of a really well informed, well dressed, well spoken, and truely loving human being. I feel safer with his finger on the button, don’t you? Especially now that the US has a stronger and better democracy than ever???? (NOT)
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