Militarism abu ne mai kyau

By Tom H. Hastings

Lokacin da Benjamin Netanyahu ya kai kara kotu, ya karba, kuma ya amsa gayyatar da aka yi masa na yin jawabi ga wani dan takarar jam'iyyar Republican a gaban jama'a, ya nuna kin jinin Shugaba Obama, ya soki Shugabanmu, yana mai cewa yarjejeniyar da aka gabatar don hana Iran samun bam din makaman nukiliya "sharri ne" ma'amala. "

Ina so in yi tashar Bibi. Militar .an Adam mummunan ciniki ne.

Lokacin da kawai kayan aikin da kake da shi ne guduma, duk matsaloli sun fara kama da ƙusoshi. Kayan aiki Amurkawa kawai, a cikin zuciyar Majalisa mai karfi, shine sojan mu. Oh — ka gafarce ni — namu Tsarki soja.

Ta yaya wannan soja yake yin maganin matsalolin kasarmu? Veryaramin kaɗan amma samfurori na wakilai:

•  Kasafin kudin soja yana da yawa, yana jan nauyin sauran kasafin kudi na masu hankali, yana kone ta kusan dala biliyan 1.5 kowace rana da kuma biyan masu harajin Amurka watanni na albashinsu duk shekara.
• Soja da masana'antun kamfanin suna da wuraren da ake dasu a Superfund fiye da kowane sashe. Ruwan karkashin kasa da kewayen sansanin soja daga Camp Lejuene a Arewacin Carolina, zuwa Kirtland AFB a Albuquerque, to Tudun Wada a Oahu, Hawaii, zuwa Pensacola, Florida, to Wright-Patterson AFB kusa da Dayton, Ohio, gurbata daga sansanonin.
• Amfani da kayan aikin soja na Amurka marasa matuki ya mamaye duniya daga Afghanistan zuwa Zango Minden, Louisiana to Makua a Hawaii to Fort Sheridan arewacin Chicago.
• Sharar atisayen soja wanda zai zama mai dafi ga lokacin ƙirar halitta yana shiga ƙasa, ruwa da iska daga New York zuwa South Carolina zuwa Richland, Washington to Madison, Indiana, Amurka. (Idan da Sinanci ko Koriya ta Arewa sun yi mana waɗannan abubuwan da za mu fara da su, babu shakka.)
• Kasafin kudin soja ya haifar da karancin guraben ayyukan yi da dala biliyan daya da aka kashe fiye da yadda majalisar ta ware ga wani bangare - kayayyakin more rayuwa, ilimi, kiwon lafiya, kare muhalli, da sauransu.
• Cutar ƙurar da EPA ta ce ba shi da haɗari mara kyau manyan bindigogi a Oregon- amma National Guard har yanzu suna ba da izinin horo kuma suna ba da damar jama'a suyi amfani da wuraren don abubuwan da suka faru.
• Anthrax mai rai daga ginin jahannama a Fort Detrick, Maryland shine jigilar, ba da gangan, ko'ina cikin Amurka da ƙasashen waje, ba tare da wani takamaiman lissafin inda aka sa ba sannan aka soke shi.
• Saboda ya sabawa dokokin kasa da kasa da na Amurka da yawa, sojan Amurkan yana gudanar da manyan ayyuka bude-rami na ƙonewa na sharar guba a Afghanistan, yana raunana membobin sabis na Amurka da Afghanistan.
• akalla 600 sojojin Amurka sun sha fama da matsalolin rashin lafiya daga fallasa makamai masu guba da Amurka ta kirkira.
• Mazauna yankin sun shawo kan gwamnatin Amurka sanya abin ƙonewa fiye da kadada 700 na abin da EPA ta kira mafi girman mil mil da aka gurbata a Duniya a Rocky Flats, Colorado, inda kamfanoni na Pentagon suka kirkiri tasirin rediyo mai mutuƙar rai zuwa wasu bama-bamai na nukiliya na 70,000.
• Lokacin da sojojin Amurka suka sami nasarar “Ofishin Jakadancin Yankin Ofishin Jakadancin” ya zama mai iya faɗi; Abokan gaba “maƙiyi” sun tashi sama, sun haƙa zurfi, suka dawo da baya da ƙarfi kamar koyaushe. Tun lokacin da mara lafiyar mu ya shawarci yakin Gulf a cikin 1991-bayan haka mun ga halittar al Qaida a matsayin abokin gaba - ga mamayewar Bush na Iraki a 2003 - bayan haka mun ga Khalifanci (!), Tashin hankalinmu ya kasance mai ban sha'awa a cikin sakamako biyu: gajeru cin nasara na lokaci da asarar lokaci mai tsayi cikin tsada da yawa cikin jini da ajiyar kaya.
• Sojojin Amurkan suna cin mai mai yawa, suna taimakawa sosai ga rikice-rikicen yanayi, fiye da sauran abubuwan duniya.

Lokaci don bincika wani wuri don mafita. Idan Majalisa ta kasance mai sha'awar, to akwai dubunnan malamai, masu aikatawa, masu bincike, da kwararru da suka san wannan wasan. Kadan ne suke cikin sojoji. Da yawa suna aiki, a Amurka da a duk duniya, suna magance matsaloli ta dindindin, taimakawa maimakon barazanar, ci gaba maimakon tashin bama-bamai, da kuma yin duka a cikin kankanin, ƙarami na farashin kayan yaƙi mafi tsada a duniya. an taɓa gani. Ko dai majalisa yakamata tayi bincike kuma tayi bincike ko kuma jama'a su zabi wasu Membobin da zasuyi.

Tom H. Hastings shine Shugaban Kamfanin PeaceVoice.