Monday, March 15, 2010

On "nation-building"

We’re “nation-building” in Afghanistan while our own schools are deteriorating, our economy is in shambles, poverty is expanding and people are losing their homes and putting up tent cities. We are the only developed country without universal health care coverage. We are number one in the developed world in murder rate, infant mortality, and number of people we put in prison. We spend more on our military than the rest of the world combined.

Of course, “nation-building” is really just another word for war and occupation. The correct term would be “nation-destroying”

Which what we did to Iraq…. Hundreds of thousands were killed, millions were made refugees and won’t go back to Iraq. Infrastructure has been destroyed and millions of lives were horribly damaged, many never to recover.

And it has not worked out too well for our troops either.

The most evil and hideous thing Obama said on 12/1/09 was that “Thanks to [U.S. troops’] courage, grit and perseverance, we have given Iraqis a chance to shape their future.”

The US troops destroyed Iraq and ended or ruined millions of lives, and that is GIVING THEM A CHANCE TO SHAPE THEIR FUTURE?

Hell, we are hardly giving our own country a chance to shape our future. We most certainly destroyed the future for most Iraqis.

“Like Bush’s America,” John Pilger notes, “Obama’s America is run by some very dangerous people”

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