[Reader-list] Wikileaks and the End of America!

[TaraPrakash]

I thought we all knew about American excesses and human right violation 
cases. What current leaks by Wiki leaks has drawn attention to is the Iraqis 
maltreating and torturing other Iraqis. There were some other leaks that 
showed how some Pakistani troops tortured prisoners. US has stopped funding 
those platoons found involved in torture.
It's easy to blame it all on America but Taliban, insurgents in Pakistan, 
insurgents in Iraq are also have to share blame in decimation. What do you 
say of the conditions with in those countries that America could exploit. 
What do you say of the people with in those countries, Afghanistan and Iraq, 
who feel more comfortable because of US's presence and do not want the one 
involved in genocide to pull out yet?
Simplifying is easier, why not try a more challenging, problematizing 
approach?





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pheeta Ram" <pheeta.ram at gmail.com>
To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 6:15 PM
Subject: [Reader-list] Wikileaks and the End of America!


> Dear all
>
> Wikileaks has brought before us another batch of facts about America's
> sinful truth: Its calculated genocide of Iraqi civilians. In an article by
> Eric Schmitt in the New York Times, he quotes from the blog of a guy named
> Steven Aftergood, head of the project on government secrecy at the
> Federation of American Scientists, who wrote: “WikiLeaks must be counted
> among the enemies of open society because it does not respect the rule of
> law nor does it honor the rights of individuals,” he wrote.
>
> Obviously, the "open society" here is America and the "the rights of
> individuals" are the Rights of Americans.
> America, an "open society", MY FOOT!
> And, whatever happened to the rights of the people of the rest of the
> world?
>
> You illegally occupy a country, kill unarmed civilians ( children and 
> women
> included) and are now shit scared when the brothers, husbands and sons of
> these very people are after your lives. Remember, you can fight an enemy 
> who
> is afraid of getting hurt, of dying, but you can't win against an enemy 
> who
> wants to die with you because you have decimated everything he could have
> hoped to live for.
>
> I remember watching a documentary a few years back. This guy is 
> interviewing
> an orphan ( around 8-9 years of age) whose entire family and the village 
> was
> wiped out when the Americans dropped a bomb on a marriage procession
> somewhere in Afganistan. The interviewer asks him:" Who killed your
> parents?" "AMRIKAA!" "Who is America?" Of course, this little boy doesn't
> know who or where America is but the look on his face is revelation enough
> of his anguish and his resolve that the mission of his life is "THE END OF
> AMERICA".
>
> Now, boy, who will save America?
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