- It is tragedy of immense proportion when people in America,
technically the most advanced country on earth choose ignorance over enlightenment
in order to hide behind their fears of self-criticism. They choose not
to look in the mirror of their conscience for fearing to see their cowardice
existence. They are happy to enjoy their daily melancholy that all is well,
and ëfreedom ringsí. The truth is, all is not well, millions
of people worldwide from Afghanistan to the Middle East face death and
destruction from America simply for choosing to be different, the very
ideal that is supposedly cherished by the proclamations of the constitution
of this country.
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- The simplicity, arrogance and ignorance of the people
of this country is so profound and became evident in the recent debate
of rename French Fries, ëFreedom Friesí, because the French
chose to stand for International Law than murder. Every country is an ally
and every individual is ìfreedom loverî as long as they agree
with Americans and submit to their desires. Otherwise, they are less important,
and better yet, irrelevant.
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- The majority of the people in this country have been
conditioned to believe whatever their government tells them. That is why,
the most one hears from an American in times of crisis is ìI am
raising the flag to give support to the cause.î What cause? The cause
of murdering others, the cause of having a Zionist fascist state of Israel
and its cronies control the media and the decision making hierarchy in
this country! I feel sorry for the people of this country. Pavlov would
be ecstatic to know that an entire nation has adopted conditioning as a
mode of existence, a phenomenon he mastered on a dog.
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- Tragically, when a terrorist attack of some sort occurs,
the same people cry out loud, ìwe are civilians we had nothing to
do with foreign policy of the United States,î I beg to differ. When
more than 70% of the people in this country grant approval for crazy hawks
to turn the entire Middle East into flames in order to please domestic
and foreign Zionists, they become complicit in the crimes of their own
government.
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- When Brett Hume and others in the media disregard civilian
casualties in Afghanistan as ëno newsí, considering it to be
the cost of war, they should not make a big deal of their losses on 911,
after all that was proclaimed by the media to be a war as well. Hence,
the people, who lost their lives, formed collateral damage, as did those
from Afghanistan. Unfortunately, when it comes to the losses on September
11th, Americans cry loud, ìthey were Americans,î thus more
humans than the 11000 Afghan civilians. Interestingly, they consider 911,
the benchmark for any undertaking as if this was the only tragedy that
struck humanity. Well, I have news for you arrogant bunch; we get 911 every
two years or so. In fact, your government is in the process of committing
911 a hundred folds in Iraq.
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- In Kabul alone, in the early 1990s, we lost 65,000 civilians
with the direct aid of CIA encouraging infighting. In the US night bombing
alone, we lost more than 11,000 civilians all over Afghanistan, and are
still dying and will be dying for centuries to come from uranium based
weapons.
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- To add insult to injuries to the Afghans, the US heroes
were dropping food rations together with massive JDAMs and cluster bombs.
Thus, based on the flawed logic of the people here, bragging about their
government dropping food rations over Afghanistan, the events of 911 would
be more acceptable if the terrorists who flew those airplanes also dropped
packs of sausage and salami on the people below before they were killed.
That is exactly, what the US government did. It insulted the people there
when US-UK airforces dropped cluster bombs followed by food rations on
the poor people of Afghanistan.
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- Incidentally, the war hawks talk about rebuilding Iraq
after they destroy it. They want to rebuild Iraq the same way they rebuilt
Afghanistan by turning it into a uranium wasteland. In fact, the Zionists
and other hawks want the United Nations to shoulder the cost of humanitarian
disaster. The US government has not shame they expect this from the same
organization that they disregarded and considered it irrelevant. Off course,
the government of the United States has no shame it is simply an adjective
for those that enjoy living from the blood of others.
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- The selective ignorance of the people of this country
is so profound that according to poll release by CNN, more than 70% of
Americans think that if Iraq is attacked the threat of terrorism would
be less than if it were not. Wake up America, use your common sense, the
more you hit someone, the angrier he becomes and more prone to take revenge.
Off course, you will not see columns of people organizing in public to
volunteer for terrorism, instead an internal dynamics would accelerate
and the world would be facing countless Bin Ladens.
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- Tragically, Americans are not only ignorant but are also
brutal when it comes to their own. The peace activist, Rachel, who was
brutally murdered by the Israeli cowards, bulldozed to death after she
attempted to prevent Israeli bulldozer from destroying the house of a Palestinian
in full view of everyone including the driver of the bulldozer. Still,
the people of this country do not care about their own either, perhaps
because she was not ìinsuring Israeli securityî; hence, it
was all right for her to be crushed under the chains of Israeli bulldozer.
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- Since the people of this country claim that it is a democracy,
then they must act and unseat the criminals that kill people on their name.
If they do not bring these criminals to justice, the terrorists would say,
ìyou are as guilty as the government you are supportingî.
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- Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD
- Afghanistan born intellectual
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- My Response To America
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- By Mohammed Daud Miraki, PhD
- 3-19-3
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- It is interesting to write this response to many of those
that responded to my previous article ìAmerica- a nation of ignorantsî.
Even though I made frequent references in the article as well as in my
communications with many of these characters that contacted me via email,
they chose to remain focused on their limited worldview, namely only considering
themselves and their country as the center of universe. I do not blame
them for viewing their country as the center of universe after all it is
their country. It is natural, therefore, to be on the defensive. However,
it is noteworthy contrary to people I have met all over the world from
Africa to Asia from Australia to Europe and to Latin America, the majority
of Americans, based on the number of respondents to my article, chose not
to admit the wrong doings of their country.
- This sample of people are important because they have
access to the Internet, hence, they have an alternative medium of worldwide
information at their fingertips. Irrespective of this advantage, which
I must assert is quite significant in the age of information and communication,
these people disregarded both the magnitude as well as the extent of evidences
I referred to. This brings us to question and pose some fundamental questions
in regards to human beings and explore our inherent as well as our molded
dispositions.
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- Naturally, every individual has an inherent undeniable
self-partiality whether we are talking about property, country, family
or people from the same country. Within this domain of self-partiality
is a basic human intuitive factor that distinguishes between right and
wrong. Certainly, the self-partiality disposition is reinforced both by
oneís upbringing and the social medium wherein one resides.
- The molded disposition, on the other hand, can be viewed
as an artificial cognition. That is, it is susceptible to change with the
availability of pertinent information to either confirm or refute the molded
behavior or disposition. For example, in the case of the United Statesí
crimes, if an American becomes defensive and refuses to accept my allegations
about USís crimes in Afghanistan, after I provide them with evidence
to support my allegations, then he/she would rethink his/her molded or
established disposition. Consequently, the provision of evidence and information
would have modified their molded or established disposition and would become
better human beings.
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- Unfortunately, based on the overwhelming majority of
contacts and repeated exchange of information between those that contacted
me, I came to the conclusion that it is entirely useless to dwell on my
attempts at their persuasion. Worse yet, those that contacted me had access
to the Internet, an alternative medium of exchange and information. If
they are so narrow-minded what could I expect from those that have no access
to such wealth of information?
- Nonetheless, I am going to make a simple straightforward
argument with those that are not persuaded, mostly in the format of posing
questions where from I would deduce the actual truth.
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- Let me start by saying that you feel offended when I
called you and your country ignorant, how would you feel if my country
and I had turned your country into an uninhabitable uranium wasteland?
- I will answer this for you and perhaps you could use
your limited minds to understand it.
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- To have someoneís country turn into uranium wasteland
is the same as death striking one unexpectedly. A woman is afraid to give
birth or even to marry because she would be afraid to give birth to a deformed
baby resulting from uranium radiation. An expatriate is afraid to return
because living there means two things perpetual death for one self and
oneís family and generations to come. Foods, water, and mere walk
under the shades serve as the elements of life deprivation.
- So what does this mean for me? I can not return to Afghanistan
and can not take my parents to spend their last days in their homeland
because of the deadly dangers inherent in the massive amount of uranium
used in the US-led bombing. My relatives are becoming sick with dreadful
diseases; my countrymen and women are dying from uranium poison and other
dreadful contaminants. So, let me see if I can figure this out, you, Americans
feel offended because I call your country, the country of ignorants. Would
you not mind or would it be all right for someone to poison your neighborhood
but not to call you and your country ignorant?
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- Some accused me of ëbad-mouthing America? However,
I like to ask you, is it more dreadful for someone to ëbad-mouthí
you and your country or be the cause of oral tumor in your childís
mouth? I say the latter is more dreadful. That is exactly, what your great
country has done to my country and Iraq where children are born with huge
tumors protruding out of their mouths. I do not know if you could eat food
and think without reference to your molded disposition and suppressed humanity.
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- Some of you accused me of blowing things out of proportion
and were quite angry. Let me reason this out, would you prefer to be angry
or have a mass slaughter in your country? I prefer the former. I wish we
in Afghanistan had the luxury of being angry, we would take that any time
over the mass slaughter you Americans have imposed on us. Yes, you Americans,
it is you who are guilty because you have kept a criminal government in
power. Based on the responses I received from large number of you, I do
not only blame your government for atrocities and crimes against humanity,
my people and I blame you Americans as much as your government.
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- Incidentally, some questioned our humanity compared to
that of the America and its people. I like to answer your doubt by posing
a handful of questions:
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- 1. Who killed more than 3 million Vietnamese? America
- 2. Who ënukedí inhabitants of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki into extinction? America
- 3. Who has killed over 1 million Iraqi babies from food
and medicine deprivation? America
- 4. Which countryís foreign secretary considers
the death of 500,000 babies an acceptable price? Americaís. Lesley
Stahl asked former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright during her interview
on í60 Minutesí in 1996, the following:
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- "We have heard that a half million children have
died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And -- and you
know, is the price worth it?"
- Albright responded: "I think this is a very hard
choice, but the price -- we think the price is worth it."
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- 5. Which country has turned Afghanistan into uranium
wasteland and thus, uninhabitable? America
- 6. Which country has also turned areas of Iraq, Kosovo,
Serbia and Bosnia uninhabitable? America
- 7. Which country conspired to facilitate the invasion
of Afghanistan by the former Soviet Union? America did.
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- The following is a quote from Brzezinski in his interview
with Le Nouvel Observateur (France), in which he admitted that their actions
induced the Soviets to invade Afghanistan:
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- ìit was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed
the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet
regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in
which I [Brzezinski] explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going
to induce a Soviet military intervention.î
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- Then, the reporter asked the following question:
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- Question: ìDespite this risk, you were an advocate
of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry
into war and looked to provoke it?î
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- Brzezinski: ìIt isn't quite that. We didn't push
the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that
they would.î
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- Consequently, 1.5 million of Afghan civilians lost their
lives from the Russian bombardments. The country is littered with 20 million
mines that has already maimed over one million people. Despite of us being
United States allies, we were abandoned. We kept dying and maiming from
littered mines.
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- So, who has better value system, Afghanistan or the US?
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- 8. Which country has murdered more than 30,000 Afghan
civilians from bombing and displacement? America
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- Let me conclude:
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- Every civilization/nation has a saturation period. Every
hyperbola has a peck as well as decline. Every demand has a diminishing
return. And, yes, every empire faces its decline from arrogance and ignorance;
USSR was an example. No doubt, the US has started its decline by invading
Afghanistan.
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- I have news for you good Americans; you have marked your
decline with your irresponsible entrance into the 21st century. Instead
of advocating humanity and equity, you brought death and perpetual death
upon Afghanistan and Iraq and among upcoming other massacres.
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- Indeed, the Project for the New American Century got
a good start dominating and killing innocents in Afghanistan, Iraq and
all over. Do not misunderstand me there are many criminal governments in
the world, the Russians for example. However, at this point in history,
United States is the one committing mass murder! This nation will decline
and collapse, unless its people accepts their collective responsibility
for the crimes committed on their names, hence, share collective guilt.
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- I do not need to apologize to any of you. It is you who
must apologize to my people and me. After all, I may have only offended
you, but you on the other hand, killed thousands of us and have turned
my country to an uninhabitable uranium wasteland, thus, deriving us for
generation of the very fundamental god giving right, the right to live.
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- Wake Up Americans!
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- Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD
- Mdmiraki@ameritech.net
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