To me, it just seems like more interference by the U.S in foreign affairs. It comes at the cost of lives , property, freedom and security of the people living in the U.S. Should we be concerned about events in our own little sphere instead of what is going on in Afghanistan? We already have some people taken prisoner in Iran, they are being called Spies. The government of Iran is beginning to prosecute them, but that news was preempted by "events"in the Middle East. Freedom and democracy breaking out supposedly in the Middle East, but is it really that? Or is it more meddling by the U.S in foreign governments? Were those people arrested in Iran really meddlers has Iran is trying to assert? Can Iran make that case? will it be covered in our media, now that's news.
One could make a good case for the U.S and our President,here in the United States by trying to get rid of the leaders of foreign governments who are hostile to America. After all, this country is significantly weaker because of the financial woes we've been through, and if we are in a decline, then maybe it might sense to take out any hostiles out there that would only cause more suffering in our last days as America.
One might ask though ,who are the "real" enemies of America,and American Democracy? Is it Qaddafi, leader of Libya? was it Mubarak ,former President of Egypt,is it the Leader of Iran? maybe the problem is with Fundamental Islam?
Maybe the problem lies in the leaders of this Country. We can pat ourselves on the back that other Countries are fighting to be like U.S, but I'm kinda reminded by the U.S actions abroad that today's freedom fighters around the world are often tomorrows "terrorists" to the U.s government. We supported the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union, now we are leading a major insurgency against the former Mujaheddin into Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan to fight the people we supported in the first place.
Its really too bad that Americans can't move with the vehemence of the Egyptians and Libyans, and rouse some of there So-called leaders in America today out of there office. Its really too bad in America that people don't rally up all these people who have lost there homes, all these people who have lost their jobs, Disenfranchised youth, who can't afford to go to school to get an education, and cannot find a job, or elderly people who have to work but cannot, People who've worked most of there lives but lost pensions , or the new up-and-comers would won't get a Pension. etc,etc.
Too bad someone can't rally all these people in America, and have them camp out in front of the White house , and the seat of government in Washington D.C and Media...Until the leaders there make some meaningful reform.
Now that would be News.
Meantime I wanted to post some famous words said by Martin Luther King Jr. Concerning events that happened many years ago. It came at a time when King was trying to promote Human rights, and the civil rights of people of color. The leaders of America then sought to lead of into a War, in Vietnam....times that resemble the present.
"King offered the most severe moral indictment of imperialism of his generation. He boldly condemned America's Vietnam War as an unjustified,cynical and hopeless slaughter of poor people of color.
He critiqued the origins and effects of the war, in which a million Vietnamese had already died, but he went further,saying, "The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit."
He spoke of corporate investments abroad and American support for military dictatorships, and greed.
"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profits motives and property rights are consider more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
"King attacked the war as damaging to the Vietnamese but also to Americans, and particularly African-Americans. The Nations conduct abroad taught people at home to accept violence while it consumed society's resources like a "Demonic suctioning tube."
"President Johnson's War on poverty, he said ,had been shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam, while the "flamethrowers in Vietnam fan the flames in our cities." King did not just say the war was wrong; he indicted the system that brought it about. He called for "a true revolution of values," a reordering of priorities to "develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole," to join the world revolution on behalf of the poor, the colonized, and the oppressed.
"Everyone must protest the war," he said, "for silence is betrayal." He feared "there is such a thing as being too late....If we do not act we shall surely be dragged down the long,dark shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strenght without sight."
From "Going Down Jericho Road" by Michael K.Honey.Published by W.W. Norton& Company. New York. 2007 Pg 94.
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