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Re: Re: Guerre en Iraq
Garda GHISTA
Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:08:36 +0200
Dear Jean-Marc Flament,
Just now I have read this email that you wrote on April 28. You have written a wonderful email. On behalf of other Americans, I apologize for what Frank Houck has written. The tragedy here in America is that millions of Americans like Frank are completely brainwashed by the mass media (controlled by the wealthiest capitalists) and hence by watching TV they can hardly get any information about the realities of the war. They never show the people suffering. Americans with a daily dose of violence and completely unrealistic television programs became very desensitized to issues of suffering and death in other countries. Many Americans never left American shores and they think only for themselves - they do not think about the rest of the world. Most Americans today never had to live through war and torture and death. They never had to live under tyranny. Americans have a relatively cushy life. Their self-centeredness causes them to never think about the sufferings of the impoverished people in other countries. And somehow, people who are not white-skinned just don't seem to have much value - since when those lives are destroyed, it does not affect people here. If somebody's cat or dog dies here in America, they will feel tremendously about it. They will shed many tears. But if several thousand people in India or Afghanistan die from earthquake or war, they will not think about it at all. This is life in America.
On the positive side, there are a few persons here though who do care. They understand that what the US government is doing abroad is completely wrong. They are able to see beyond the brainwashing by the media. Those persons are trying their best to fight an unjust government run by a few wealthy capitalists whose every action is devoted to becoming still more wealthy. It is very hard for the simple people in the country to understand these things. It is hard for the ordinary people to have 'vivek' (in sanskrit) or discrimination between right and wrong, good and bad.
I wish I could do far more than I am doing to stop this war by megalomaniacs in the White House. The only thing so far I can do is to write. Couple of days ago I wrote an article which is posted at
http://www.proutworld.org/news/
called "Economic Consequences of Iraq Occupation".
I cannot even call it a 'war' because the Iraqi generals were bribed and whisked out of the country before the war had a chance to begin. And if it really was a war, it would have to be called the most cowardly war in world history - with so-called soldiers dropping bombs from 30,000 feet above down on defenseless civilians - men, women and children. Now I watch on the BBC the angry faces of the Iraqi people who have the courage to walk up to the US soldiers and tell them to leave. And the US soldiers respond by shooting, killing and wounding these unarmed civilians who tell them to leave their country. This is the real American government abroad. This is why America and Americans will be hated for decades to come.
Garda Ghista
Kentucky, USA
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
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