Ndi David Swanson
Kwa mtundu wa zothetsa nkhondo zomwe aliyense ayenera kuwerenga onjezerani Nyengo Yatsopano Yopanda Chiwawa: Mphamvu ya Civil Society Pankhondo ndi Tom Hastings. Ili ndi buku la maphunziro amtendere lomwe limawolokerana ndi malingaliro olimbikitsa mtendere. Wolembayo amalankhula za zochitika zabwino popanda magalasi amtundu wa rozi kapena wofiira-woyera ndi wabuluu. Hastings sikuti angopeza mtendere mumtima mwake kapena mtendere mdera lake kapena kubweretsa mawu abwino amtendere kwa anthu aku Africa. Amafunadi kuthetsa nkhondo, ndipo motero amaphatikizapo kutsindika koyenera - osati kokha - ku United States ndi zankhondo zomwe sizinachitikepo. Mwachitsanzo:
“Potengera zotsatirapo zabwino, mpikisano wofuna kupeza mafuta otsalira padziko lapansi udzayambitsa mikangano yambiri ndipo pamafunika mafuta ochulukirapo kuti tipambane. . . '[T] iye US Air Force, yemwe amagwiritsa ntchito mafuta ambiri padziko lonse lapansi, posachedwapa adalengeza ndondomeko yosintha 50 peresenti ya mafuta omwe amagwiritsidwa ntchito ndi mafuta ena, ndikugogomezera kwambiri mafuta. Komabe, mafuta a biofuel sadzatha kupereka pafupifupi 25 peresenti ya mafuta agalimoto [ndipo ndi kuba malo ofunikira kulima mbewu -DS] . . . kotero kuti madera ena kumene mafuta alipo adzapeza ndalama zambiri zankhondo ndi kuloŵererapo.' . . . Chifukwa cha kusowa kwa malo osungira mafuta, asitikali aku US alowa mu nthawi ya nkhondo ya Orwellian yanthawi zonse, ndipo mikangano imachitika m'maiko angapo nthawi zonse. Ikhoza kuganiziridwa ngati raptor wamkulu, wotenthedwa ndi mafuta, akuzungulira dziko lapansi mosalekeza, kufunafuna chakudya chake chotsatira. "
Anthu ambiri amene amakonda “mtendere,” monga mmene anthu ambiri amakondera kuteteza chilengedwe, safuna kumva zimenezo. Bungwe la US Institute of Peace, mwachitsanzo, likhoza kuganiziridwa ngati njerewere pamlomo wa chiphona chachikulu, ndipo - ndikuganiza - kudziwona mokwanira m'mawu amenewo kutsutsa ndime yapitayi. M'malo mwake, Hastings akuwonetsa bwino momwe Washington, DC, imadziganizira yokha mwa kutchula ndemanga yodziwika bwino, koma yomwe yatsimikiziridwa kale yolakwika ndi zochitika zodziwika bwino. Uyu anali Michael Barone wa US News ndi World Report mu 2003 kuukira Iraq kusanachitike:
"Ochepa ku Washington amakayikira kuti titha kulanda Iraq mkati mwa milungu ingapo. Kenako pakubwera ntchito yovuta yosunthira Iraq ku boma la demokalase, lamtendere, komanso lolemekeza malamulo. Mwamwayi, akuluakulu anzeru m'madipatimenti onse a Chitetezo ndi Boma akhala akukonzekera bwino kuti izi zitheke kwa chaka chopitilira. ”
Choncho, osadandaula! Izi zinali zomveka poyera mu 2003, monga ena ambiri, komabe mfundo yakuti boma la US likukonzekera kuukira Iraq kwa chaka choposa izi zisanakhale "nkhani zabodza!" mpaka sabata ino.
Kuti nkhondo zitha kupewedwa ngakhale ku United States zikuwonekeratu kwa Hastings yemwe angagwirizane ndi Robert Naiman's. kutsutsa kwaposachedwa pamene CNN inanena kuti kutsutsa nkhondo ya Contra pa boma la Nicaragua kuyenera kulepheretsa munthu kuthamangira pulezidenti wa US (makamaka munthu amene waima pafupi ndi wotentha wopanda manyazi yemwe adavotera nkhondo ya Iraq). M'malo mwake, a Hastings akuti, zoyesayesa zazikulu za gulu lamtendere ku United States panthawiyo zidalepheretsa kuwukira kwa US ku Nicaragua. "[H]akuluakulu aku US omwe ali ndi mwayi wopeza [Pulezidenti Ronald] Reagan ndi nduna yake amalingalira kuti kuwukira ku Nicaragua kunali kosapeweka - ndipo . . . sizinachitikepo.”
Hastings amayang'ana zomwe zimayambitsa nkhondo kunja kwa Pentagon, kutsata, mwachitsanzo, matenda opatsirana kubwerera ku zomwe zimayambitsa umphawi, ndikuzindikira kuti matenda opatsirana amatha kuyambitsa chidani cha xenophobic ndi ethnocentric chomwe chimatsogolera kunkhondo. Choncho kuyesetsa kuthetsa matenda kungathandize kuthetsa nkhondo. Ndipo ndithudi kachigawo kakang'ono ka mtengo wankhondo kakhoza kupita kutali kuthetsa matenda.
Nkhondoyo siyenera kukhala chifukwa cha mikangano zikuwonekeratu kwa Hastings yemwe amalongosola zitsanzo zabwino kwambiri monga kukana kotchuka ku Philippines kuyambira pakati pa 1970s mpaka pakati pa 1980s. Mu February 1986 nkhondo yapachiweniweni inayamba. "Anthuwo adalowa pakati pa magulu awiri a akasinja mumsewu wodabwitsa wamasiku anayi wopanda chiwawa. Anayimitsa nkhondo yapachiŵeniŵeni, kupulumutsa demokalase yawo, ndipo anachita zonsezi popanda kufa.”
Choopsa chimabisala pakuzindikirika kokulirapo kwa mphamvu zopanda chiwawa zomwe ndikuganiza kuti zikusonyezedwa ndi mawu ochokera kwa Peter Ackerman ndi Jack Duvall omwe ndikuwopa kuti Hastings akanaphatikiza popanda kuseketsa. Ackerman ndi Duvall, ndiyenera kutchula, si aku Iraqi ndipo panthawi yolankhula mawu awa sanatumizidwe ndi anthu aku Iraq kuti asankhe tsogolo lawo:
"Saddam Hussein wakhala akuchitira nkhanza komanso kupondereza anthu aku Iraq kwa zaka zoposa 20 ndipo posachedwapa wakhala akufunafuna zida zowononga kwambiri zomwe sizingakhale zothandiza kwa iye mkati mwa Iraq. Chifukwa chake Purezidenti Bush akulondola kumutcha chiwopsezo chapadziko lonse lapansi. Poganizira izi, aliyense amene akutsutsa nkhondo ya US kuti amuchotse pampando ali ndi udindo wofotokozera momwe angatulutsire pakhomo lakumbuyo kwa Baghdad. Mwamwayi pali yankho: Kukaniza anthu wamba, osachita zachiwawa ndi anthu aku Iraq, kudapangidwa ndikugwiritsidwa ntchito ndi njira yochepetsera mphamvu za Saddam.
Ndi mulingo uwu, dziko lililonse lomwe lili ndi zida zogwiritsira ntchito pankhondo zakunja kokha liyenera kuwukiridwa ndi United States ngati chiwopsezo chapadziko lonse lapansi, kapena aliyense wotsutsa izi ayenera kuwonetsa njira ina yogwetsera bomalo. Lingaliro ili likutibweretsera CIA-NED-USAID "kukwezeleza demokalase" ndi "kusintha kwamitundu" komanso kuvomereza koyambitsa zigawenga ndi zigawenga "mopanda chiwawa" kuchokera ku Washington. Koma kodi zida zanyukiliya za Washington ndizothandiza kwa Purezidenti Obama mkati mwa United States? Kodi akanakhala olondola panthaŵiyo podzitcha yekha chiwopsezo chapadziko lonse ndi kudziukira yekha pokhapokha titasonyeza njira ina yodzigwetsera?
United States itasiya kupereka zida ndi kupereka ndalama kwa maboma ena oyipa kwambiri padziko lapansi, ntchito zake za “kusintha maboma” kwina kulikonse zikanataya chinyengo chimenecho. Iwo akanakhalabe opanda chiyembekezo ngati demokalase yopanda demokalase yosonkhezeredwa ndi mayiko ena. Ndondomeko yachilendo yopanda chiwawa, mosiyana, sichingagwirizane ndi Bashar al Assad pozunza anthu kapena kupatsa asilikali a Syria kuti amuwukire kapena kupanga ziwonetsero kuti amukanize mopanda chiwawa. M'malo mwake, zikanatsogolera dziko lapansi kukhala chitsanzo cha kuchotsera zida, ufulu wa anthu, kusungitsa chilengedwe, chilungamo chapadziko lonse lapansi, kugawa zinthu moyenera, ndi kudzichepetsa. Dziko lolamulidwa ndi wopanga mtendere m'malo mopanga nkhondo lingakhale locheperapo chifukwa cha zolakwa za Assads zapadziko lapansi.
