by John Pilger, Satumba 22, 2017, Counter Punch .
Daya daga cikin abubuwan da suka shafi "talabijin na Amurka" War ta Vietnam, ya fara akan hanyar sadarwar PBS. Daraktocin su ne Ken Burns da Lynn Novick. Da yake yaba masa game da shirye-shiryensa na yakin basasa, Babban Tashin hankali da tarihin jazz, Burns ya ce game da fina-finansa na Vietnam, "Za su ba wa ƙasarmu kwarin gwiwa don fara magana da tunani game da yaƙin Vietnam ta wata sabuwar hanya".
A cikin al'umma ba sau da yawa na tunawa da tarihin tarihi da kuma farfaganda na "bambance-bambance", ya ƙone "wutsiya" na Vietnam ya zama "farfadowa, aikin tarihi". Kasuwancin talla na tallafawa babbar ƙungiya, Bank of America, wanda ɗalibai a Santa Barbara, California ke ƙone a 1971, a matsayin alama ce ta ƙiyayya a Vietnam.
Burns ya ce yana godiya ga "daukacin iyalan bankin Amurka" wanda "ya dade yana goyon bayan tsoffin sojojin kasarmu". Bankin Amurka ya kasance kamfani ne na mamayewa wanda ya kashe kusan Vietnaman Vietnamese miliyan huɗu kuma ya lalata da guba a wata ƙasa mai falala. Fiye da sojojin Amurka 58,000 aka kashe, kuma kusan adadin wannan an kiyasta sun kashe kansu.
Ina kallon wasan farko a New York. Ya bar ku a cikin shakka game da manufarsa tun daga farko. Marubucin ya ce yakin "ya fara da kyakkyawan bangaskiya daga mutanen kirki daga mummunar rashin fahimta, rashin rinjaye na Amurka da Cold War rashin fahimta".
Ba daidai ba ne wannan maganganun ba gaskiya bane. Hanyoyin da ake yi na "kuskuren ƙarya" wanda ya haifar da mamayewa na Vietnam shi ne batun rikice-rikice - "Gulf of Tonkin" a 1964, wanda Burns yake inganta a matsayin gaskiya, yana daya kawai. Rashin qarya sukan rutsa da yawa daga takardun aikin hukuma, musamman ma Takardun Pentagon, wadda mai girma Daniel Ellsberg ya fito a cikin 1971.
Babu bangaskiya mai kyau. Bangaskiya ta kasance mai banza da m. A gare ni - kamar yadda ya kamata ga mutane da yawa Amurkawa - yana da wuyar duba fina-finai na "fina-finai" mai launi, masu bincike da ba a lakafta su ba, wanda ba a yanke hukunci ba, da kuma magungunan filin wasa ta Maudlin.
A cikin jerin 'labaran da aka fitar a Burtaniya - BBC za ta nuna shi - babu inda aka ambaci' yan Vietnam da suka mutu, Ba'amurke kawai. "Dukkanmu muna neman ma'ana a cikin wannan mummunan bala'in," an ambato Novick yana cewa. Yaya post-zamani.
Duk wannan zai zama sananne ga wadanda suka lura yadda yadda kafofin watsa labarun Amurka da al'adun gargajiya na al'ada suka sake nazari kuma suka aikata mummunan laifi na rabi na biyu na karni na ashirin: daga The Green Berets da kuma Deer Hunter to Rambo kuma, a yin haka, ya halatta yaƙe-yaƙe na tashin hankali na gaba. Bita ba zai taɓa tsayawa ba kuma jinin baya bushewa. Maharan ya tausaya kuma an tsarkake shi daga laifi, yayin da yake “neman wata ma'ana a cikin wannan mummunan bala'in”. Cue Bob Dylan: "Oh, ina ka kasance, ɗana mai launi?"
Na yi tunani game da "rashin adalci" da "kyakkyawan bangaskiya" lokacin da nake tunawa da abubuwan da nake da shi na farko kamar yadda jaridar matasa a Vietnam ke kallo: kamar yadda fatar jiki ta fadi daga 'yan kananan yara kamar yadda tsohuwar takarda, da kuma matuka na bama-bamai da suka bar bishiyoyin da suka tsorata. tare da jikin mutum. Janar William Westmoreland, kwamandan Amurka, ya kira mutane a matsayin '' '' '' '' '' ''.
A farkon 1970s, na tafi lardin Quang Ngai, inda a kauyen My Lai, tsakanin mazauna 347 da 500, mata da jarirai suka kashe wasu dakarun Amurka (Burns prefers "killings"). A wannan lokacin, an gabatar da shi azaman aberration: wani "bala'in Amurka" (Newsweek ). A cikin wannan lardin, an kiyasta cewa an kashe mutane 50,000 a zamanin “zonesungiyoyin wuta kyauta” na Amurka. Kisan kai da yawa. Wannan ba labari bane.
A arewa, a lardin Quang Tri, an jefa wasu boma-bamai fiye da dukan Jamus a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu. Tun daga 1975, labaran da ba a bayyana ba ya haifar da mutuwar 40,000 a mafi yawancin "Kudancin Vietnam", kasar Amurka ta yi ikirarin "ajiye" kuma, tare da Faransa, ta ɗauki ciki a matsayin ƙetare na mulkin mallaka.
"Ma'anar" na yaki na Vietnam bai bambanta da ma'anar kisan gillar da aka yi wa 'yan asalin Amurka ba, da kisan gillar mallaka a cikin Philippines, da bombings na Japan, da kuma kowane gari a Koriya ta Arewa. Mahangar Edward Lansdale, sanannen CIA mutumin wanda Graham Greene ya kafa ainihin halinsa, ya bayyana hakan The shuru American.
Ana faɗar Robert Taber's Yakin da Fula, Lansdale ya ce, "Akwai kawai hanyar da za ta cinye mutanen da ba za su mika wuya ba, kuma wannan shi ne wargajewa. Akwai hanya guda kawai don sarrafa yankin da ke kewaye da juriya, kuma hakan shine ya juya ta cikin hamada. "
Babu wani abu da ya canza. Lokacin da Donald Trump yayi jawabi ga Majalisar Dinkin Duniya a kan 19 Satumba - wani jikin da aka kafa don kare dan Adam da "annobar yaki" - ya bayyana cewa yana "shirye, shirye-shirye" da "hallaka gaba daya" Koriya ta Arewa da kuma 25 miliyan mutane. Masu saurarensa sunyi tsalle, amma harshen Trump ba sabon abu bane.
Tsohon dan takarar shugaban kasa, Hillary Clinton, ya yi barazanar cewa ta shirya shirye-shiryen "rufewa" Iran, al'ummar da ta fi mutane fiye da 80. Wannan ita ce hanya ta Amirka; Sai dai ba'ace bace yanzu.
Komawa zuwa Amurka, an yi niyya da shiru da kuma rashin 'yan adawa - a tituna, a cikin jarida da kuma zane-zane, kamar dai rashin amincewa da zarar an yi jituwa a cikin "na al'ada" ya ci gaba da rikicewa zuwa wani rikici: wani tsari mai kwakwalwa.
Akwai yawan sauti da fushi a kan muryar mai banƙyama, "fascist", amma kusan babu wanda ya ji muryar alama da kuma motsa jiki na tsarin cike da tashin hankali.
Ina ne fatalwowi na zanga-zangar yaki da yaki da yaki da yaki da yaki da yaƙin Washington da aka yi a cikin 1970s? A ina ne daidai da Ƙungiyar 'yanci ta Manhattan a cikin 1980s, ta bukaci Shugaba Reagan ya janye makamai nukiliya daga Turai?
Tsarin makamashi da haɓakar halayyar wadannan manyan motsi sunyi nasara; by 1987 Reagan ya yi shawarwari tare da Mikhail Gorbachev wani yarjejeniyar Nukiliya na Intermediate-Range (INF) wanda ya kawo karshen Yakin Cold.
Yau, bisa ga takardun Nato da aka samu daga jaridar Jamus, Suddeutsche Zetung, za a iya watsar da wannan yarjejeniya mai mahimmanci kamar yadda "ƙaddamar da makircin nukiliya ya karu". Ministan Harkokin Wajen Jamus Sigmar Gabriel ya gargadi game da "sake maimaita kuskuren mafi girma na Cold War ... Duk yarjejeniyar da aka yi kan rikici da makamai masu guba daga Gorbachev da Reagan suna cikin hatsari. Har ila yau Turai ta sake barazanar sake zama horar da sojoji don makaman nukiliya. Dole ne mu ta da muryarmu a kan wannan. "
Amma ba a Amurka ba. Dubban dubban wadanda suka fito da juyin juya halin Senator Bernie Sanders a cikin yakin neman zaben shugaban kasa a bara sun hada baki daya a kan wadannan haɗari. Wannan mafi yawancin Amurka da aka yi a duniya baki daya ba ta kasancewa ta hanyar Republican ba, ko mutants kamar Trump, amma ta hanyar 'yan Democrat masu dimokuradiyya, ya kasance tsaka.
Barack Obama ya samar da apotheosis, tare da fadace-fadace guda bakwai, rikice-rikicen shugaban kasa, ciki har da lalata Libya a matsayin halin zamani. Gwamnatin Amurka ta yi watsi da nasarar da Obama ya yi a zaben shugaban kasa na Ukraine, wanda ya jagoranci kungiyar NATO a kan iyakar yammacin Rasha ta hanyar da Nasis suka kai hari a 1941.
Aikin 2011 na Obama ya nuna cewa, yawancin sojojin jiragen ruwa da na iska na Amurka na zuwa Asiya da na Pacific ba tare da wani dalili ba sai dai su fuskanci kullun da kuma tsokar da kasar Sin. Nasarar Nobel ta Duniya a duk duniya game da kisan kai shi ne mafi girman yakin neman ta'addanci tun daga 9 / 11.
Abin da aka sani a Amurka a matsayin "hagu" ya haɗaka da ƙananan hanyoyi na ikon hukumomi, musamman Pentagon da CIA, don ganin yarjejeniyar zaman lafiya tsakanin Trump da Vladimir Putin da sake mayar da Rasha a matsayin abokin gaba a kan babu dalilin da ya nuna rashin amincewarsa a zaben shugaban kasa ta 2016.
Rikicin na gaskiya shine tunanin ɓoye na iko ta hanyar son rai wanda ya saɓa son yaƙi wanda babu wani Ba'amurke da ya zaɓa. Saurin hawan Pentagon da hukumomin sa-ido a karkashin Obama sun wakilci canjin tarihi na Washington. Daniel Ellsberg ya kira shi juyin mulki. Janar-janar din nan uku da ke tafiyar da Trump ne shaida.
Dukkan wannan ba zai shiga cikin wadannan 'yan kwakwalwa na' yanci da aka kama a formaldehyde na siyasa na siyasa ba, kamar yadda Luciana Bohne ya lura. Kasuwanci da jarrabawar kasuwanni, "bambancin" shine sabon sahihanci, ba mutanen da suke bauta wa ba tare da la'akari da nau'in jinsin da launin fata ba: ba nauyin komai ba ne don dakatar da yakin basasa don kawo ƙarshen yaƙe-yaƙe.
"Ta yaya aka yi amfani da wannan mummunan aiki?" In ji Michael Moore a cikin Broadway show, Terms of My miƙa wuya, watau vaudeville don wanda aka ba da izinin da aka sanya a kan wani wuri na Turi kamar Big Brother.
Ina sha'awar fim na Moore, Roger & Ni, game da lalacewar tattalin arziki da zamantakewa daga garinsa Flint, Michigan, da kuma Sicko, bincikensa game da cin hanci da rashawa a Amirka.
Daren da na ga zane-zane, masu sauraron farin ciki ya yi murna da tabbatar da cewa "mu ne mafiya yawa!" Kuma ya kira "tsinkayar tsutsa, maƙaryaci da fascist!" Saƙonsa ya zama kamar yadda ka riƙe hanci ka kuma zabe ga Hillary Clinton, rayuwa za ta iya yiwuwa.
Zai iya zama daidai. Maimakon yin amfani da mummunar mummunan mummunan duniya, kamar yadda Turi yake yi, Mai Girma Mai Girma zai iya kaiwa Iran hari da makamai masu linzami a Putin, wanda ta kwatanta da Hitler: wani labaran da aka bai wa 'yan Russia kimanin 27 wadanda suka mutu a hadarin Hitler.
"Ku saurara," in ji Moore, "da barin abin da gwamnatocinmu suke yi, Amirkawa suna ƙaunar duniya sosai!"
Akwai shiru.
