100 Shekaru na Yin Amfani da War don Kokarin Ƙare Dukan War

By David Swanson

Wannan 4 ga Afrilu zai kasance shekaru 100 tun lokacin da Majalisar Dattijan Amurka ta zabi yin shelar yaƙi da Jamus da 50 tun lokacin da Martin Luther King Jr. yayi magana game da yaƙin Vietnam (49 tun lokacin da aka kashe shi a bikin farko na jawabin). Abubuwan da ke faruwa suna kasancewa shirya don taimaka mana muyi ƙoƙari mu koyi wasu darussa, don motsawa, ba kawai Vietnam ba, amma yaki.

Wannan faɗar yaki a kan Jamus ba don yaki da ke haifar da batun da aka fi sani da Amurka da nishaɗi ba. Ya kasance yaƙin da ya zo gaban wannan. Wannan shi ne babban yakin, yakin da zai kawo karshen yakin yaƙin, yakin da ba a yada yanayin yaki ba.

Kazalika ya sake faɗi a cikin Michael Kazin's Yakin da yaƙin yaki: Amurkan Amurka don Nuna 1914-1918, wata babbar} ungiyar zaman lafiyar, ta taimaka wa} asar Amirka. A lokacin da yakin ya ƙare (bayan da Amurka ta kasance a cikinta a game da 5% tsawon yakin da aka kai a Afganistan har yanzu) kawai game da kowa ya yi baƙin ciki. Rashin hasara a rayuwa, bangarori, sanyaya, dukiya, 'yancin jama'a, dimokuradiyya, da kuma kiwon lafiya sun kasance masu ban mamaki. Mutuwa, lalacewa, annoba ta mura, haramtacciyar soja, da kuma haraji don tafiya tare da shi, da tsinkaya na yakin duniya na biyu: wadannan sune sakamakon, kuma mutane da dama sun tuna cewa an riga an gargadi su, da kuma cewa An yi alkawalin kawo ƙarshen yaki.

Masu sa ido na zaman lafiya sun gargadi gwamnatin Amurka da ta dakatar da yaki (ba daga dangantakar kasashen waje ba, kawai daga cikin kisan kai da kisan kai). Kuma sun kasance daidai. Baqin ciki ya kasance mai tsanani da kuma wanzuwa. Ya ci gaba har ya zuwa mummunar yakin yakin duniya na zo tare da yakin yakin duniya na biyu. A wannan lokacin, an maye gurbin da manta. Yaƙin Duniya na an cire shi daga tarihin mashahuran, da kuma yaro a kan steroids an yi bikin ba tare da yin makoki ba, kuma an yi bikin tare da girmamawa tun daga lokacin.

Babban yunkurin zaman lafiya wanda yaki da yaki a 1928, ya kasance tartsatsi, na al'ada, da kuma tashin hankali kafin 1917 kuma. Membobin Majalisar Antiwar Congress sun shiga cikin Rikodin Majalisar wakilai samfurin ambaliyar wasiƙu da buƙatun da suka karɓa suna roƙon Amurka ta fita daga yaƙi. Kungiyoyin zaman lafiya sun gudanar da zanga-zanga da zanga-zanga, sun aika wakilai zuwa Turai, sun gana da shugaban, kuma sun matsa lamba don neman kuri'un jama'a kafin fara wani yaki, suna masu yakinin cewa jama'a za su zabi yakin. Ba za mu taba sani ba, saboda ba a taba jefa kuri'a ba. Madadin haka, Amurka ta tsallake cikin yaƙin, ta haka ta hana sasantawa da ƙirƙirar cikakken nasara biyo bayan mummunan azaba na ɓangaren da aka rasa - ainihin mai na Nazism, da na fasikancin Italiya, da mulkin mallaka na Japan, da Sykes-Picot sassaƙa Gabas ta Tsakiya ƙaunataccen mazaunan yankin har zuwa yau.

Wani baje kolin antiwar wanda ya zagaya Amurka a cikin 1916 ya haɗa da samfurin stegosaurus mai girman rai wanda ke wakiltar mummunan sakamakon samun kayan yaƙi amma ba kwakwalwa. Tunanin shirya don yaki domin a samu zaman lafiya, wanda a yau abu ne mai sauki, an samu yaduwar abin a matsayin babban abin dariya, kamar yadda Washington ta bi diddigin “shiri” cikin raini. Morris Hillquit, masanin kishin gurguzu - wani abu na Bernie Sanders ba tare da ƙarni na 21 ba - ya tambayi dalilin da ya sa ƙasashen Turai, da ke da cikakken makamai don kauce wa yaƙi, ba su guje shi ba. "Inshorar su ta antiwar ta zama mummunan yanayi na inshora sosai," in ji shi. Kun shirya don yaƙi, kuma kuna samun yaƙi - sosai isa.

Woodrow Wilson ya ci zaɓe a wani dandalin antiwar, kuma ba zai iya cin nasara ba in ba haka ba. Bayan ya zabi yaƙi, bai sami ikon tara runduna don yaƙinsa ba tare da wani daftarin aiki ba. Kuma bai iya ɗaukar daftarin ba tare da ɗaure mutanen da suka yi magana game da shi ba. Ya ga cewa an azabtar da waɗanda suka ƙi yarda da imaninsu (ko, kamar yadda za mu ce a yau, an yi musu tambayoyi). Duk da haka mutane sun ƙi, rabu da su, sun ɓace, kuma sun yi yaƙi da dubbai masu duban ma'aikata. Hikimar yin watsi da yaƙi ba a rasa ba. Ba kawai waɗanda ke cikin iko suka bi shi ba.

Ganin cewa yakin ya kamata ya ƙare, wanda ya kai kusan a cikin 1920s da 1930s, ya ga wani abu na dawowa a lokacin abin da Vietnamanci ke kira yakin Amurka. Martin Luther King bai bada shawara da wani yaki dabam ba ko kuma mafi kyau yaki, amma barin bayan dukan yakin basasa. Wannan fahimtar ya karu ne kamar yadda cutar ta Vietnam ta ɓace kuma an yi ta yaki. A halin yanzu, tunanin Amurka yana da rikice-rikice.

a cikin wata zabe a kwanan nan, 66% na mutane a Amurka suna damuwa cewa Amurka zata tsunduma cikin babban yaƙi a cikin shekaru huɗu masu zuwa. Koyaya, Amurka tana cikin yaƙe-yaƙe da dama a yanzu wanda dole ne ya zama babban mahimmanci ga mutanen da ke rayuwa ta hanyar su, yaƙe-yaƙe waɗanda suka haifar da mafi girman rikicin yan gudun hijira har zuwa yanzu a duniya kuma suka yi barazanar karya irin wannan bayanan don yunwa. Bugu da kari, 80% na jama'ar Amurka a cikin wannan zaben sun ce suna goyon bayan NATO. Akwai raba 50/50 akan ko za'a iya kara yawan nukiliya. Mafi rinjaye sun fi son hana 'yan gudun hijirar da ke gujewa yaƙe-yaƙe. Kuma a kan kashi uku na Democrat sunyi imani, don nuna rashin amincewarsu maimakon dalilai masu karfi, cewa Rasha bata da abokin gaba ko abokin gaba. Duk da gargadi na masu hikima na fiye da karni, mutane suna tunanin cewa zasu iya yin amfani da shirye-shirye na yaki don kauce wa yaki.

Abu daya da zai iya taimaka mana don hana mu yawan yaƙe-yaƙe shine fuskar Trump da aka sanya yanzu akan yaƙe-yaƙe. Mutanen da za su ƙi Rasha saboda sun ƙi ƙuri'a wani lokaci za su iya adawa da yaƙe-yaƙe saboda suna ƙin Trump. Kuma wa) anda ke yin aiki don tallafa wa 'yan gudun hijirar na iya son taimakawa wajen kawo karshen laifukan da suka haifar da' yan gudun hijirar.

A halin yanzu, tankunan Jamus suna sake mirgina zuwa iyakar Rasha, kuma maimakon neman yanke hukunci daga kungiyoyi irin su Anne Frank Center, kamar yadda aka yi kwanan nan don yaƙi da ƙiyayya da Donald Trump, masu sassaucin ra'ayi na Amurka gaba ɗaya suna yabawa ko guje wa duk wani wayewar kai.

Abu daya ya tabbata: ba za mu tsira a cikin shekaru 100 ba. Tun kafin wannan lokacin, za mu gwada wani abu dabam. Dole ne mu motsawa bayan yaki don warware rikice-rikicen rikice-rikice, taimako, diflomasiyya, kwance, hadin kai, da kuma bin doka.

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