WALLS OF SHAME - Lessons learnt from History and the American role in global conflicts ....
This week marks the 17th anniversary of the downfall of the Berlin Wall. Significantly, this very week also marks the regression of the hegemony of the Bush Regime with the landslide victory of the Democrats in the U.S. Congressional elections.
Nevertheless, on the other scale of the balance, this week was marred by the
atrocious killing of civilians in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli forces. This very Army is likewise responsible for having constructed some time ago under the leadership of former Prime Minister Sharon the new Wall of shame that separates the Israelis from the Palestinians.
As if it were not enough humiliation lived with the decades of existence of the Berlin Wall, and the miseries produced by Sharon’s Wall of Shame, the
U.S. President, George W. Bush, approved just before the November 7th Elections another abominable wall – the Wall Against equal Opportunities – that pretends to impede the surge of wetbacks into the so-called bastion of democracy, the United States of America.
It may be worthwhile remembering that ever since the end of World War II, the United States has dominated the world scene and practically imposed at will its foreign policy in all continents. Rare exceptions have been the years of the Cold War between the Western Powers and the soviet bloc that precisely caused the construction of the Berlin Wall.
After Gorbachov applied his Perestroika, the USSR was no more and the wall that divided East and West had no reason to exist. In likewise manner, the ever-growing European Union has assumed a lead role in European foreign policy, to the disdain of most U.S. policymakers. The Western Allies in Europe had long since ceased to deliver carte blanche consent to American foreign policy, frequently questioning both actions and proposals, as when the incumbent U.S. President launched his crusade invasion of Iraq.
The downfall of the Berlin Wall and the defeat of President Bush in the recent elections should stand out as symbols towards a more coherent U.S. Government stand on vital international issues that are mainly in the hands of the Bush Administration.
In the first place, the Middle East conflict rather that calm down has been enkindled with the permanence of U.S. troops in Iraq. Though Saddam’s atrocities can never be justified, neither can a real democrat ever defend the intromission of other states in the government of a sovereign nation as Iraq. The result has been the undeclared civil war amongst different religious & political factions within the borders of what once was a recognized sovereign state. The real issue at the time of the Allied invasion without United Nations support was not the supposed nuclear
potential of Iraq – later proved to be a mere fabrication of U.S. & British Intelligence as an excuse –but the conflictive Middle East situation which endangered the supply of petroleum and natural gas towards the Western World.
In this scenario, Israel has received unquestioned U.S. backing to the point that Sharon was allowed to build his Wall of Shame and carried out all the invasions he desired, actions that continued even under the supposed moderate Olmert. After the Lebanon massacres that were never condemned properly by the Western Powers, now the Israeli Army has again attacked the civilian population with total impunity at Gaza.
This American attitude of ever supporting Israel and the natural tendency of the Bush Administration to preach out doom from the Axis of Evil and enthrone itself as the only true defender of democracy in the Universe no longer is believable, after all the atrocities committed in the name of freedom.
History finally is written out in clear straight strokes that register misdeeds and all misdoings. Far from the marketing images of the Land of Freedom that the U.S.A. is supposed to be and hidden deep down into the roots of its scarcely two centuries of history, the birth of the United States of America has a lot more to reveal than so much alleged patriotism and democracy.
George Bush’s midterm in this second mandate may still prove to be the best
time to set records straight of the flaws of the System, above all to track down all the undemocratic actions and violations of Human Rights exercised by no less than the President of the almighty self-proclaimed bastion of democracy that is the United States of America, George W. Bush, the worst American President ever.
Nevertheless, on the other scale of the balance, this week was marred by the
atrocious killing of civilians in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli forces. This very Army is likewise responsible for having constructed some time ago under the leadership of former Prime Minister Sharon the new Wall of shame that separates the Israelis from the Palestinians.As if it were not enough humiliation lived with the decades of existence of the Berlin Wall, and the miseries produced by Sharon’s Wall of Shame, the
U.S. President, George W. Bush, approved just before the November 7th Elections another abominable wall – the Wall Against equal Opportunities – that pretends to impede the surge of wetbacks into the so-called bastion of democracy, the United States of America.It may be worthwhile remembering that ever since the end of World War II, the United States has dominated the world scene and practically imposed at will its foreign policy in all continents. Rare exceptions have been the years of the Cold War between the Western Powers and the soviet bloc that precisely caused the construction of the Berlin Wall.
After Gorbachov applied his Perestroika, the USSR was no more and the wall that divided East and West had no reason to exist. In likewise manner, the ever-growing European Union has assumed a lead role in European foreign policy, to the disdain of most U.S. policymakers. The Western Allies in Europe had long since ceased to deliver carte blanche consent to American foreign policy, frequently questioning both actions and proposals, as when the incumbent U.S. President launched his crusade invasion of Iraq.
The downfall of the Berlin Wall and the defeat of President Bush in the recent elections should stand out as symbols towards a more coherent U.S. Government stand on vital international issues that are mainly in the hands of the Bush Administration.In the first place, the Middle East conflict rather that calm down has been enkindled with the permanence of U.S. troops in Iraq. Though Saddam’s atrocities can never be justified, neither can a real democrat ever defend the intromission of other states in the government of a sovereign nation as Iraq. The result has been the undeclared civil war amongst different religious & political factions within the borders of what once was a recognized sovereign state. The real issue at the time of the Allied invasion without United Nations support was not the supposed nuclear
potential of Iraq – later proved to be a mere fabrication of U.S. & British Intelligence as an excuse –but the conflictive Middle East situation which endangered the supply of petroleum and natural gas towards the Western World.In this scenario, Israel has received unquestioned U.S. backing to the point that Sharon was allowed to build his Wall of Shame and carried out all the invasions he desired, actions that continued even under the supposed moderate Olmert. After the Lebanon massacres that were never condemned properly by the Western Powers, now the Israeli Army has again attacked the civilian population with total impunity at Gaza.
This American attitude of ever supporting Israel and the natural tendency of the Bush Administration to preach out doom from the Axis of Evil and enthrone itself as the only true defender of democracy in the Universe no longer is believable, after all the atrocities committed in the name of freedom.History finally is written out in clear straight strokes that register misdeeds and all misdoings. Far from the marketing images of the Land of Freedom that the U.S.A. is supposed to be and hidden deep down into the roots of its scarcely two centuries of history, the birth of the United States of America has a lot more to reveal than so much alleged patriotism and democracy.
George Bush’s midterm in this second mandate may still prove to be the best
time to set records straight of the flaws of the System, above all to track down all the undemocratic actions and violations of Human Rights exercised by no less than the President of the almighty self-proclaimed bastion of democracy that is the United States of America, George W. Bush, the worst American President ever.Fernando Fuster-Fabra Fdz.
Expert in International Relations
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