Na Brian Terrell
I ka manawa i kala mai ai ka Pelekikena Barack Obama ma April 23 i nā ʻohana o Warren Weinstein lāua ʻo Giovanni Lo Porto, he ʻAmelika a he Italia, ua pepehi ʻia nā mea paʻa ʻelua i kahi hoʻouka kaua drone ma Pakistan i Ianuali, ua hoʻopiʻi ʻo ia i ko lākou make pōʻino ma ka "ohu o ke kaua."
"Ua kūlike kēia hana me nā alakaʻi a mākou e hana ai i nā hana counterterrorism ma ka ʻāina," i ʻōlelo ai ʻo ia, a ma muli o "mau haneli mau hola o ka nānā ʻana, ua manaʻo mākou ʻo kēia (ka hale i kuhikuhi ʻia a luku ʻia e nā missiles i hoʻokuʻu ʻia) he pūhui al Qaeda; ʻaʻohe kanaka kīwila i hele mai. ʻOiai me nā manaʻo maikaʻi loa a me nā palekana paʻa loa, ua ʻōlelo ka pelekikena, "he ʻoiaʻiʻo ʻino a ʻawaʻawa ia i ka noe o ke kaua ma ke ʻano maʻamau a me kā mākou hakakā ʻana me nā mea hoʻoweliweli, nā hewa - i kekahi manawa nā hewa make - hiki ke hiki mai."
ʻO ka huaʻōlelo "fog of war," Nebel des Krieges ma Kelemānia, ua hoʻolauna ʻia e ke kanaka kālailai koa Prussian ʻo Carl von Clausewitz i ka makahiki 1832, e wehewehe i ka maopopo ʻole i ʻike ʻia e nā alakaʻi a me nā koa ma ke kahua kaua. Hoʻohana pinepine ʻia e wehewehe a hoʻohalahala paha i ka "ahi aloha" a me nā make ʻē aʻe i manaʻo ʻole ʻia i ka wela a me ka huikau o ke kaua. Hāpai ka huaʻōlelo i nā kiʻi ʻoniʻoni o ka chaos a me ka ambiguity. Hōʻike ka noe o ke kaua i ka walaʻau nui a me ka ʻeha, nā volleys o nā pōkā a me nā pū kī, nā pahū o ka iwi, nā ʻuā o ka poʻe ʻeha, nā kauoha i hoʻōho a kūʻē ʻia, kaupalena ʻia ka ʻike a hoʻololi ʻia e nā ao o ke kinoea, uahi a me nā ʻōpala.
ʻO ke kaua ponoʻī he hewa a ʻo ke kaua ka Gehena, a i loko o kāna puaʻa hiki i nā koa ke pilikia i ka manaʻo, sensory a me ke kino. I loko o ka ʻohu o ke kaua, ʻo ka luhi ma mua o ke ʻano o ka hoʻomanawanui a me ka makaʻu no ko lākou ola ponoʻī a no ko lākou mau hoa, pono e hoʻoholo pinepine nā koa i nā hoʻoholo ʻelua o ke ola a me ka make. I loko o ia mau kūlana pōʻino, ʻaʻole hiki ke pale ʻia ka "hewa - i kekahi manawa nā hewa make - hiki ke hiki mai."
Akā, ʻaʻole i make ʻo Warren Weinstein lāua ʻo Giovanni Lo Porto i ka ʻohu o ke kaua. ʻAʻole lākou i make i ke kaua, ʻaʻole i ʻike ʻia ke kaua a hiki i kēia manawa. Ua pepehi ʻia lākou ma kahi ʻāina i kaua ʻole ʻo ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa. ʻAʻohe kanaka i hakakā ma ka pā kahi i make ai. He mau kaukani mile ka mamao o na koa nana i ki aku i na missile i make ai keia mau kanaka elua ma Amerika Huipuia, aole pilikia, ina paha e ki mai ana kekahi. Ua nana aku keia poe koa i ka pii ana o ka uwahi ma lalo o ka lakou mau missile, aka, aole lakou i lohe i ka pahū a me ka leo o ka poe i eha, aole no hoi i loaa ia lakou ke kupapau o kona pahū. I kēlā pō, e like me ka pō ma mua o kēia hoʻouka ʻana, hiki ke manaʻo ʻia ua hiamoe lākou ma ka home ma ko lākou mau moena ponoʻī.
Ua hōʻoia ka pelekikena ua hoʻokuʻu ʻia kēlā mau missiles ma hope o ke aʻo ʻia ʻana o nā "haneri hola o ka nānā ʻana" e nā mea noiʻi pale a me ka naʻauao. ʻO ka hoʻoholo i alakaʻi i ka make ʻana o Warren Weinstein lāua ʻo Giovanni Lo Porto ʻaʻole i loaʻa i loko o ka crucible o ke kaua akā i ka ʻoluʻolu a me ka palekana o nā keʻena a me nā lumi kūkā. ʻAʻole i uhi ʻia ko lākou ʻike e ka uahi a me nā ʻōpala akā ua hoʻonui ʻia e ka ʻenehana mākaʻikaʻi "Gorgon Stare" ʻoi loa o nā drones Reaper.
ʻO ka lā hoʻokahi e like me ka hoʻolaha a ka pelekikena, ua hoʻopuka pū ka White House Press Secretary i kēia nūhou: "Ua manaʻo mākou ua pepehi ʻia ʻo Ahmed Farouq, he alakaʻi al-Qaʻida, ʻo ia ma ka hana like i hopena i ka make o Kauka Weinstein a me Mr. Lo Porto. Ua hoʻoholo pū mākou ua pepehi ʻia ʻo Adam Gadahn, he ʻAmelika i lilo i lālā koʻikoʻi o al-Qaʻida, i ka mahina o Ianuali, ma ke ʻano he hana kūʻē kūʻē i ke Aupuni US. ʻOiai ʻo Farouq lāua ʻo Gadahn he mau lālā al-Qaʻida, ʻaʻole i kuhikuhi ʻia, a ʻaʻohe o mākou ʻike e hōʻike ana i ko lākou hele ʻana ma nā kahua o kēia mau hana. Inā ʻo ka papahana pepehi kanaka drone a ka pelekikena i kekahi manawa i pepehi ʻia i nā mea hoʻopaʻa ʻia, ʻo ia hoʻi i kekahi manawa ua pepehi ʻia ʻo ʻAmelika i ʻōlelo ʻia he lālā lākou o al-Qaʻida a ʻoiai ke manaʻo nei ka Hale Paʻa e lawe mākou i kahi hōʻoluʻolu i kēia ʻoiaʻiʻo.
"He mau haneli mau hola o ka mākaʻikaʻi" ʻoiai, a ʻoiai ua "kūlike loa me nā alakaʻi a mākou e hana ai i nā hana counterterrorism," ua hāʻawi ʻia ke kauoha e hoʻouka i ka pūhui me ka loaʻa ʻole o kahi hōʻailona aia ʻo Ahmed Farouq ma laila a ʻo Warren Weinstein paha. ʻaʻole. ʻEkolu mahina ma hope o ka ʻoiaʻiʻo, ua ʻae ke aupuni o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa ua puhi lākou i kahi hale a lākou i nānā ai no nā lā me ka ʻike ʻole o ka mea i loko.
ʻO ka "ʻoiaʻiʻo hoʻomāinoino a ʻawaʻawa" ʻaʻole i pepehi ʻia ʻo Warren Weinstein lāua ʻo Giovanni Lo Porto ma kahi "hoʻoikaika kū'ē i ka hoʻoweliweli", akā ma kahi hana hoʻoweliweli a ke aupuni o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa. Ua make lākou ma ke ʻano gangland hit i hele hewa. Pepehi 'ia ma ke ka'a ki'eki'e-e ka pana 'ana, 'o ia ka po'e i ho'opa'i 'ia no ka pepehi kanaka 'ole, inā 'a'ole no ka pepehi kanaka.
ʻO kekahi "ʻoiaʻiʻo ʻino a ʻawaʻawa" ʻo ka poʻe i pepehi ʻia e nā drones mamao loa mai kahi kahua kaua no nā hewa ʻaʻole lākou i hoʻāʻo ʻia a hoʻopaʻi ʻia paha, e like me Ahmed Farouq lāua ʻo Adam Gadahn, ʻaʻole lākou he ʻenemi i pepehi ʻia ma ke kānāwai. He poʻe lākou i ka lynching e ka mana mamao.
"Predators a me Reapers mea ole i loko o ka paio kaiapuni," i ae General Mike Hostage, ka luna o ka Air Force's Air Combat Command i loko o ka haʻi'ōlelo i ka mahinaʻo Kepakemapa, 2013. Ua hōʻoiaʻiʻo i ka pono o nā Drones, i'ōlelo aiʻo ia, i ka "ʻimiʻana i lalo" al Qaʻida akā ʻaʻole maikaʻi i ka hakakā maoli. Ma muli o ka ulu a hoʻonui wale ʻana o al Qaʻida a me nā hui hoʻoweliweli ʻē aʻe mai ka wā i hoʻomaka ai nā hoʻolaha drone a Obama i ka makahiki 2009, hiki i kekahi ke hoʻopiʻi i ka ʻōlelo a ka lehulehu no ko lākou pono ma nā ʻaoʻao āpau, akā he mea ʻoiaʻiʻo ka hoʻohana ʻana i ka ikaika make e. he pūʻali koa ma waho o kahi hoʻokūkū hakakā, ma waho o ke kahua kaua, he hewa kaua. Ma muli paha o ka loaʻa ʻana o kahi mea kaua i hoʻohana wale ʻia i loko o kahi kaiapuni i hoʻopaʻapaʻa ʻole ʻia he hewa pū kekahi.
ʻO ka make ʻana o ʻelua mau mea hoʻopaʻa pio o ke komohana, hoʻokahi kamaʻāina ʻAmelika, he mea pōʻino maoli nō ia, akā ʻaʻole i ʻoi aku ma mua o ka make ʻana o nā tausani o Yemeni, Pakistani, Afghan, Somali a me Libyan keiki, nā wahine a me nā kāne i pepehi ʻia e kēia mau drones like. ʻO ka pelekikena a me kāna kākau ʻōlelo paʻi e hōʻoiaʻiʻo iā mākou ʻo nā hanana ma Pakistan i Ianuali i hala aku nei ua "kūlike piha me nā alakaʻi e hana ai mākou i nā hana counterterrorism," ʻoihana e like me ka mea maʻamau. Me he mea lā i ka manaʻo o ka pelekikena, he mea pōʻino wale nō ka make ke ʻike pono ʻole ʻia ua pepehi ʻia nā poʻe ʻaʻole Muslim o ke komohana.
"Ma ke ʻano he Peresidena a ma ke ʻano he Luna Nui, lawe wau i ke kuleana piha no kā mākou mau hana counterterrorism, me ka mea nāna i lawe me ka ʻike ʻole i nā ola o Warren lāua ʻo Giovanni," wahi a Pelekikena Obama ma April 23. Mai ka wā i lawe ai ʻo Pelekikena Ronald Reagan i ke kuleana piha no ka ʻaelike pū ʻana o Iran-Contra a hiki i kēia manawa, ua maopopo ka ʻae ʻana o ka pelekikena i ke kuleana, ʻaʻohe mea e hoʻopaʻa ʻia a ʻaʻohe mea e loli. ʻO ke kuleana a ka Pelekikena Obama e ʻae ai no ʻelua wale nō o kāna mau mea i hōʻeha ʻia, he haʻahaʻa loa ia no ka noʻonoʻo ʻana, a me kāna kala kala ʻāpana, he mea hōʻino i kā lākou hoʻomanaʻo. I kēia mau lā o ka ʻalo ʻana o ke aupuni a me ka makaʻuʻu aupuni, he mea koʻikoʻi ka lawe ʻana o kekahi i ke kuleana piha no ka poʻe a pau i pepehi ʻia a hana e hoʻōki i kēia mau hana o ka hana ʻino a me ka hoʻonāukiuki.
ʻElima mau lā ma hope o ka hoʻolaha ʻana o ka pelekikena i ka pepehi kanaka ʻana o Weinstein lāua ʻo Lo Porto, i ka lā 28 ʻApelila, ua pōmaikaʻi au e noho ma Kaleponi me kahi kaiāulu hoʻolaʻa o nā mea hoʻoikaika ma waho o Beale Air Force Base, ka home o ka Global Hawk surveillance drone. He ʻumikūmāono o mākou i hopu ʻia i ka hoʻopaʻa ʻana i ke komo ʻana i ke kahua, e haʻi ana i nā inoa o nā keiki i pepehi ʻia i ka hoʻouka kaua drone akā me ka ʻole o ke kala ʻana mai ka pelekikena a i ʻole, no kēlā mea, i ka ʻae ʻana ua make lākou. Ma ka lā 17 o Mei, aia wau me kekahi pūʻulu o nā mea hana anti-drone ma Whiteman Air Force Base ma Missouri a i ka hoʻomaka ʻana o Malaki, ma ka wao nahele ʻo Nevada me ka ʻoi aku o hoʻokahi haneli e kūʻē nei i ka pepehi kanaka drone mai Creech Air Force Base. Ke kūʻē nei nā kamaʻāina kuleana ma nā kahua drone ma Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, New York ma RAF Waddington ma United Kingdom, ma ke keʻena nui o CIA ma Langley, Virginia, ma ka Hale Paʻi a me nā hiʻohiʻona ʻē aʻe o kēia mau hewa i ke kanaka.
Ma Yemen a ma Pakistan pū kekahi, ke ʻōlelo kūʻē nei ka poʻe i ka pepehi kanaka i hana ʻia ma ko lākou mau ʻāina ponoʻī a me ka pilikia nui iā lākou iho. Ua hoʻopiʻi nā loio mai ka Reprieve a me ka European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights i kahi hoʻokolokolo Kelemania, e koi ana ua uhaki ke aupuni Kelemania i kāna kumukānāwai ponoʻī ma ka ʻae ʻana i ka US e hoʻohana i kahi kikowaena satellite ma Ramstein Air Base i Kelemānia no ka pepehi kanaka drone ma Iemene.
Malia paha i kekahi lā e paʻa ʻia ke kuleana o Pelekikena Obama no kēia mau pepehi kanaka. I kēia manawa, aia iā kākou a pau ke kuleana a me kāna hoʻomalu. ʻAʻole hiki iā ia ke hūnā ma hope o ka noe kaua a ʻaʻole hiki iā mākou.
ʻO Brian Terrell kahi hui hui no Voices for Creative Nonviolence a me ka mea hoʻoponopono hanana no ka Nevada Desert Experience.brian@vcnv.org>
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