NguDavid Swanson, World BEYOND War, NgoMeyi 4, 2019
Andiyazi ukuba abaninzi abantu baseUnited States babesazi ukuba yintoni i-Fallujah eyayithethayo. Kunzima ukukholelwa ukuba umkhosi wase-US wawuya kubakho xa bekwenza. Kodwa ngokuqinisekileyo sele likhohliweyo - ingxaki enokuthi ilungiswe xa wonke umntu ekhetha ikopi yayo Ukuthengwa kwe Fallujah: Imbali yabantu, nguRoss Caputi (umlindi wase-United States omnye wee-egoli zase Fallujah), uRichard Hill, noDonna Mulhearn.
Uyakwamkela inkonzo! "
I-Fallujah yayingu "isixeko semikhosi," esakhiwe yi-300,000 kubantu be-435,000. Kwakukho isithethe sokumelana nabangaphandle-kuquka ukuhlaselwa kweBrithani. Kwabandezeleka, njengaye yonke i-Iraq, kwizityholo ezinobunzima ezibekwe yi-United States kwiminyaka ekhokelela ekuhlaselweni kwe-2003. Ngethuba lokuhlaselwa, i-Fallujah yabona iimarike ezixhamle. Emva kokuwa koburhulumente base-Iraq e-Baghdad, i-Fallujah yayisungula urhulumente wayo, igweme ukuphanga kunye neengxabano ezibonwe kwenye indawo. Ngo-Ephreli, i-2003, i-US 82nd Airborne Division yafudukela e-Fallujah kwaye ayizange ihlangane.
Ngokukhawuleza umsebenzi wawuqala ukuvelisa uhlobo lweengxaki ezibonwa ngumsebenzi wonke naphakade. Abantu bakhononda ngo-Humvees ukukhawuleza ezitratweni, ukuhlaziswa kwiindawo zokukhangela, abafazi abaphathwa ngokungafanelekanga, belijoni elivambileyo ezitalatweni, kunye neemajoni ezimi kwiindawo zokuhlalisa kunye nama-binoculars ngokuphula umthetho wabucala. Kwiintsuku ezimbalwa, abantu baseFilluya babefuna ukukhululwa "kwii-liberators" zabo. Ngoko ke, abantu bazama ukubonakalisa okungabonakali. Kwaye imikhosi yaseMerika yaxoshelwa ngabaqhankqalazi. Kodwa ekugqibeleni, abahlali bavunyelwene ukuba baphume ngaphandle kwesi sixeko, banciphise iiproloji zabo, baze bavumele i-Fallujah iqondo lokuzilawula ngaphandle kwelo lonke i-Iraq elivunyelwe. Isiphumo siphumelele: I-Fallujah yayigcinwa ikhuselekile kunabanye base-Iraq ngokugcina abahlala kuyo.
Lo mzekelo, ngokwenene, kufuneka utyunjwe. I-United States yayifuna ukunyanzela ukukhulula isihogo esivela e-Iraq ukuba "igcine ukhuseleko" kwaye "incedise ekutshintsheni kwidemokhrasi." UViceroy uPaul Bremer wanquma "ukuhlambulula i-Fallujah." Kwafika "umbutho" wamaqela, ukukhubazeka ngokuqhelekileyo (ukuhleka ngokuchanekileyo kwi-Netflix ye-Brad Pitt Umkhosi weMfazwe) ukwahlula abantu ababenzela inkululeko kunye nobulungisa kubantu ababebabulala. Amagosa ase-United States achaza abantu abafuna ukuwabulala "njengomhlaza," kwaye bahamba babulala ngokuxhatshaza nokuqhumisa umlilo owabulala abaninzi abantu abangenabo umdlavuza. Bangaphi abantu baseUnited States babenomdlavuza okwakungaziwa ngelo xesha.
Ngo-Matshi, i-2004, abavukuzi abane bamanzi abaMnyama babulawa e-Fallujah, imizimba yabo yatshiswa yaxhonywa ibhuloho. Amajelo ase-United States abonisa amadoda amane njengabantu abangenacala abangabamsulwa ngokuthe ngandlela-thile bafumanisa phakathi kwemfazwe kunye neethagethi eziphucukisayo zobundlobongela obungenangqondo, obungenashukumo. Abantu base Fallujah babeyi "thugs" kunye "nabasongeni" kunye "nabahlali." Ngenxa yokuba inkcubeko yase-US ayizange izisole ngoDresden okanye iHiroshima, kwakukho ukukhala okuvulekileyo ukulandela ezo zinto zenzeka e Fallujah. Lowo owayengumcebisi kuRonald Reagan, uJack Wheeler wafikelela kwimodeli yaseRoma yasendulo ekufuna ukuba i-Fallujah iyancitshiswa ibe yimpucu engapheliyo: "Fallujah delenda est!"
Abahlali bazama ukubeka ixesha lokuvalwa kwexesha kunye nokuvinjelwa kokuphatha izixhobo, besithi bafuna amanyathelo ukuze bahlukanise abantu ukuba babulale kubantu ukuba banike idemokhrasi. Kodwa xa abantu bebashiya amakhaya abo ukutya okanye amayeza, bahlaselwa. Iintsapho zaxutywa phantsi, enye ngenye, njengoko umntu ngamnye ephuma ukuze azame ukufumana umzimba oswele okanye ongenakuphila onomthandayo. "Umdlalo wentsapho" wawubizwa ngokuba ngumdlalo. Inkundla yebhola yecala kuphela edolophini yajika yaba ngamangcwaba amakhulu.
Umfana oneminyaka eyisixhenxe ogama lakhe linguSami wabona udadewabo omncinci. Wabukela uyise ephumile endlwini ukuze amthole aze adutyulwe. Wayephulaphula uyise ekhwaza ngomsindo. USami kunye nentsapho yakhe yonke babesaba ukuphuma. Ngomso bobabini nodadewabo noyise babefile. Intsapho kaSami iphulaphule izibhengezo kunye nokukrokra ezindlwini ezungezile, njengoko ibali elifanayo lidlalwa. USami waphonsa amatye eenja ukuze azame ukuwagcina emzimbeni. Abazalwana bakaSami abadala babengavumeli ukuba unina aphume ukuvala amehlo akhe evulekileyo. Kodwa ekugqibeleni, abazalwana ababini abadala bakaSami bathetha ukuba baphumelele ngaphandle kwemizimba, benethemba lokuthi omnye wabo uya kusinda. Omnye umzalwana waphendulwa kwangoko kwintloko. Omnye ulungele ukuvala amehlo kayise aze athathe isidumbu sikadadewabo kodwa wadutshulwa ekhanda. Nangona iinzame zentsapho yonke, loo mzalwana wafa esicothayo kwaye esesabekayo ekufeni kwesilonda senqama, ngelixa izinja zalwa phezu kwemizimba kayise nomzalwana wakhe, kwaye i-stench evela kummandla wezidumbu yayithatha.
U-Al Jazeera wabonisa ihlabathi ngezinye izinto ezixhalabisayo zokuQiniswa kokuQala kwe-Fallujah. Kwaye ke ezinye iindawo zabonisa ihlabathi ukuhlanjululwa kwe-US okwenziwe ku-Abu Ghraib. Ukugxeka amaphephandaba, nokuxazulula ukwenziwa kwezenzo zokuhlaselwa kwezoqoqosho ezizayo, i-Liberators yabuya e-Fallujah.
Kodwa i-Fallujah yahlala yinjongo ekhethiweyo, eyayifuna ubuxoki obufana nalabo abaye baqalisa imfazwe yonke. U-Fallujah, uluntu lwase-US lucelwa ngoku, lusetshentshile lwe-Al Qaeda olulawulwa ngu-Abu Musab al-Zarqawi-inkolelo ebonakalayo njengeminyaka yangempela emva kwefilimu yase-US American Sniper.
Ukuxinwa kwesiBili kwe-Fallujah kwakuyihlaselo yonke ebomini kubomi bomntu obandakanya ukuqhubhiselwa kwamabhobho, izibhedlele, kwaye ngokucacileyo nayiphi na into efunwayo. Ibhinqa elinodade okhulelwe wabulawa ibhokhwe etshele intatheli, "Andikwazi ukufumana umfanekiso engqondweni yam isisu sakhe siphuphuma emzimbeni wakhe." Esikhundleni sokulinda abantu ukuba bavele ezindlwini, kwiNqande yesiBini, Ama-Marines ase-US axoshwa ezindlwini ngamathangi kunye nabaqhumeli bee-rocket, kwaye wagqiba umsebenzi nge-bulldozers, isitayela sase-Israel. Kwakhona basebenzisa i-phosphorus emhlophe kubantu, eyabagalela. Batshabalalisa amabhuloho, iivenkile, ii-mosque, izikolo, iilayibrari, iiofisi, izitishi zezithuthi, izitishi zombane, izityalo zonyango, kunye nento yonke yobuthungelwano kunye neenkqubo zokunxibelelana. Oku kwakuyi-socialism. Imidiya elawulwayo kunye nehlanganisiweyo ibandakanye bonke.
Ngonyaka olandelayo emva kokungqingwa kwesibili, kunye nomzi waguqulwa waba yintolongo evulekile emoyeni, abasebenzi base-Fallujah General Hospital babona ukuba kukho into engalunganga. Kwakukho into emangalisayo - engaphezu kweHroshima - ukwanda komdlavuza, ukuzalwa okuzalwe ngumntwana, ukukhulelwa komzimba, kunye nokungazange kubonakale kubonakele. Umntwana wazalwa eneentloko ezimbini, enye inesiso enye phakathi kwebunzi lakhe, enye inemilenze eyongezelelweyo. Sisiphi isabelo se-blame kule nto, ukuba ikhona, iya kwi-phosphorous emhlophe, nokuba yiyiphi i-uranium ecocekileyo, yintoni ekuphuculiseni izixhobo ze-uranium, yintoni ukuvula izibindi zokutshisa, kunye nokuba yintoni na kwezixhobo ezahlukeneyo, akukho nto inokuthi kukho Imfazwe yobuntu yimbangela.
I-Incubators yayifike isangqa esipheleleyo. Ukusuka kubuxoki malunga neAraq ukususa iintsana ezisuka kuma-incubators (ngandlela-thile) zilungelelanisa iMfazwe yaseGulf yokuqala, ngokusebenzisa ubuxoki malunga nezixhobo ezingekho mthethweni (ngokuthe ngandlela-thile) zichaneke ubugqirha obukhulu beShock ne-Awe, ngoku sele sifika kumagumbi agcwele ama-incubators aphethe iintsana eziphosakeleyo ngokukhawuleza kufa ngenxa yokukhululeka.
URhulumente weSixeko esise-United States we-Third Siege of Fallujah, weza kwi-2014-2016, kunye neengxelo ezintsha kuma-Western aquka ulawulo lwe-ISIS lwe-Fallujah. Kwakhona, abantu abahlali babulawa kwaye oko kwasala kwesi sixeko kwachithwa. U Fallujah delenda u kwenene. I-ISIS yavela emva kweminyaka elishumi yokuphathwa kakubi kwe-US eyayiqhutywe ngurhulumente we-Iraq wokuhlaselwa kobuhlanga ku-Sunnis.
Ngaloo nto, eqinisweni, iUnited States yayikhokela ihlabathi - ngokutshisa kweoli iimfazwe zalwa, phakathi kwezinye izinto-ekunikeni i-Fallujah kuphela, kodwa ininzi yeMiddle East, ishushu kakhulu kubantu kuhlala. Khawucinge ngomsindo xa abantu abancedisa umntu ofana noJoe Biden obambe indima ebalulekileyo ekubhubhiseni iIraq (kwaye ngubani ongakwazi ukuzisola ngokufa kwendodana yakhe kwimibhobho evulekileyo, ngaphantsi kokufa kwe Fallujah) ukufumanisa ukuba phantse Akukho mntu eMbindi-Mpuma uyaxabisa ukuwa kwemozulu kwimeko engabonakaliyo. Ngelo xesha amajelo ezopolitiko aya kuqinisekiswa ukuba asixelele ukuba ngubani na amaxhoba okwenene kweli bali.
