NgoJoan Brunwasser, I-OpEdNews
UMongameli u-Obama udunyiswe "ngokuqeda" futhi "ngokudonsela phansi" le mpi [e-Afghanistan] hhayi kuphela ngenkathi eyandisa ukuyiphinda kathathu usayizi kepha futhi isikhathi eside kunezinye izimpi ezinkulu ezihlanganisiwe. akupheli noma kuphelile. Lo nyaka ububulala kakhulu kunanoma imuphi owedlule we-12. Impi iyakhethwa, ukuthi ayibekelwe thina, ukuthi sinesibopho sokuyinciphisa noma ukuyiphetha.
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Isivakashi sami nguDavid Swanson, umbhali, umbhali, umshushisi wokuthula kanye nomxhumanisi womkhankaso weRootsAction.org. Siyakwamukela ku-OpEdNews, David. Wabhala ucezu lwakamuva, Ukuqamba kabusha i-Afghan War, Ukuqamba kabusha ukubulala . Ingabe leyo ngxabano noma ingabe impi imiswe kabusha?
O, akuyona imfihlo, yize izindaba zibukeka zililulaze ngokumemezela impi. Lokhu empeleni kudidanise inani elifanele labantu abakhumbule isimemezelo sakamuva sokuthi amasosha azohlala eminye iminyaka eyishumi nangaphezulu. Kepha ngenkathi bememezela impi, bamemezele i-Operation Enduring Freedom ngaphezulu (sengathi inkumbulo yokwesaba kwayo ingahlala isikhathi eside!) Bese kuthi, njengombhalo waphansi, iningi lokubika liqaphele ukuthi amasosha azohlala endaweni - ingasaphathwa (engashiwongo ngokoqobo) amadroni. Futhi into la mabutho asele azoqhubeka ayenze inegama elingabikwa futhi futhi elihlekisayo leSentinel ye-Operation Freedom. Kepha uma uthatha zombili izimpi ngaphambi kwaleli sonto nempi engaphezulu kwaleli sonto ukuba ibe yimpi, lokho okwenzekile kube ukushintshwa kwegama.
Ngale ndlela, nami ngingumqondisi weWorldBeyondWar.org
Kuphawulwe kahle. Isihloko sakho siqala ngeqiniso elimangalisayo mayelana nobude bale mpi, uDavid. Ungayilungisela yini abafundi bethu, sicela?
Ngasho ngempi eqhubekayo yase-US e-Afghanistan: “Impi kuze kube manje iqhubeke isikhathi eside ukubamba iqhaza kweMelika eMpini Yesibili Yomhlaba kanye nokubandakanyeka kwe-US eMpini Yezwe I, kanye neMpi YaseKorea, kanye neMpi YaseMelika YaseSpain, kanye nobude obugcwele Impi yase-United States ePhilippines, ihlangene nayo yonke impi yeMexico yaseMelika. ” Lesi isitatimende esinembile kuze kufike lapho siya khona. UMongameli u-Obama udunyiswe "ngokuqeda" futhi "ngokudonsela phansi" le mpi hhayi nje ngenkathi eyandisa ukuba ibe ngosayizi ophindwe kathathu kodwa futhi nangesikhathi eside kunezinye izimpi ezinkulu ezihlanganisiwe. Okubambile ukuthi le mpi ayikapheli noma ayipheli. Lo nyaka ububulala kakhulu kunanoma yimiphi eminye eyi-12 edlule.
Izimpi sehluke manje ngezindlela eziningi, zalwa namaqembu kunezizwe, zalwa ngaphandle kwemingcele ngesikhathi noma endaweni, zalwa nama-proxies, zalwa namarobhothi, zalwa nokufa okungaphezu kwama-90% ohlangothini olulodwa, zalwa nabantu abangaphezu kwama-90% Ukufa kwabantu (okungukuthi, abantu abangalwi ngenkani nabahlaseli abangekho emthethweni bezwe labo). Ngakho-ke, ukubiza le mpi nempi eyebe iMexico ngempi kufana nokubiza i-apula ne-olintshi izithelo - sixuba ama-apula namawolintshi. Leyo mpi yayilwa ukunweba indawo nobugqila ngokweba uhhafu wezwe lomunye umuntu. Le mpi ilwelwa ukuba nomthelela ekuphathweni kwezwe elikude ukuze kuzuze abathile abenza inzuzo nosopolitiki. Kodwa bobabili babandakanyeka ekubulaweni kwabantu abaningi, ukulimala, ukuthumba, ukudlwengula, ukuhlukumeza nokuhlukumezeka. Futhi bobabili baqanjelwa amanga emphakathini wase-US kusukela ekuqaleni kuze kube sekugcineni. Impi yase-Afghanistan kube lula ukuqamba amanga ngayo, ngendlela ethile yokuthi iMpi Yezwe II yaqanjwa amanga ngani ngesikhathi sempi yaseVietnam, ngoba impi yase-Afghanistan yenzeka ngasikhathi sinye njengempi eyayingathandwa kangako e-Iraq. Baphikisana nokubheka umqondo wokuthi impi uqobo lwayo ingaba umqondo omubi, abantu ngaphesheya kweqembu lezombusazwe laseMelika eliphakeme kakhulu bagcizelele ukuthi ngenxa yokuthi impi yase-Iraq ibiyimbi, impi yase-Afghanistan kumele ibe yinhle.
Zama ukubenza bakhombise ukuthi kuhle, kodwa-ke, futhi bahle bathi “Akuzange kube khona amanye ama-9-11.” Kepha lokho bekuyiqiniso emakhulwini eminyaka ngaphambi kuka-9-11 futhi akulona iqiniso manje, njengoba ukuhlaselwa kwezikhungo zase-US nezaseNtshonalanga kanye nabasebenzi bebelokhu bekhula ngesikhathi seMpi eTerra (igama abanye bethu abalinika lokho okubizwa ngokuthi yi-War on Terror ngoba awukwazi ukulwa nempi yokulwa nobuphekula njengoba impi uqobo ingubuphekula, futhi njengoba iTerra isho umhlaba), kanye nokuphikisana nenqubomgomo yezangaphandle yase-US - ngenhlolovo yeGallup ngonyaka owedlule ethola ukuthi i-US ibhekwa njengosongo olukhulu kunawo wonke ukuthula umhlaba. I-US nayo yakhipha amasosha ayo eSaudi Arabia, empeleni ikhuluma ngesinye sezimbangela ze-9-11, noma ngabe ichitha amandla ayo amaningi ukuqhubekisela phambili ukulwisana nomhlaba.
Bamba kancane. Kuningi ongakhuluma ngakho lapha. Uvele wathi "ngendlela ethile yokuthi iMpi Yezwe II yaqanjwa amanga ngani ngesikhathi sempi yaseVietnam". Ngabe ubuqonde ukusho lokho, David? Ngicela ucacise. Yimaphi amanga atshelwa ngeWWII futhi lokho kwakuhlangene ngani neVietnam? Ungilahlekele lapho.
Impi Yesibili Yomhlaba yaziwa ngokuthi yiThe Good War ngokungafani neMpi yaseVietnam eyayiyimpi embi. Eqinisweni, bekubaluleke kakhulu ukuthi abantu abamelene nempi yaseVietnam bakwazi ukuthi bathi abazilwi nazo zonke izimpi futhi bakhombe enhle. Lokhu kuhlale kunjalo kwabaningi baseMelika-baseMelika emakota amathathu eminyaka edlule futhi kune-99% yesikhathi sabantu abangama-99% abebeyi-WWII abakhomba kuyo njengempi okuthiwa ilungile. Kepha ngenkathi u-Obama ekhankasela isikhundla sokuba ngumongameli futhi nangaphambi kwalokho, wayekuthanda ukugcizelela ukuthi wayelwa nezimpi eziyizimungulu kuphela (okusho ukuthi impi eyaqala ngo-2003 e-Iraq aseyidumisile futhi wayidumisa, ingasaphathwa eyokwelula nokuqala kabusha) futhi wabiza i-Afghanistan ngeMpi Enhle.
Lokhu kuvame kakhulu eWashington DC futhi akuvamile kakhulu ngaphandle kwaso. Kufanele kube nempi enhle noma ingozi eyodwa yokuwela endaweni enemigomo ye-WorldBeyondWar.org ukuthi impi iyisinengiso esidinga ukuqedwa kanye nawo wonke amalungiselelo wokuningi kwayo. Ngixoxisane noJonathan Landay ohlelweni lwami lomsakazo kuleli sonto (iTalkNationRadio.org) - wayengomunye wababiki bezindaba abambalwa abake babika okwangempela kwimidiya yezinkampani ngaphambi kokuhlaselwa kweBaghdad ngo-2003 - naye yathi i-Afghanistan yayiyimpi enhle futhi impi iyonke ilungile. Umuntu kufanele acabange ngaleyo ndlela ukusebenza eWashington.
Ngambuza ngeBush wenqaba AmaTaliban azama ukuphendulela uBin Laden icala, kanti uLanday umemezele ukuthi amaTaliban akaze akwenze lokho ngoba ukuhlukumeza isivakashi kwephula isiko likaPastun, sengathi ukuvumela isizwe sakho ukuthi siqhunyiswe ngamabhomu futhi sihlale kuso akuphuli isiko lePastun. U-Landay akazange ayiphikise indaba yokuthi kwakungu Bush owayesenqabile lesi siphakamiso - futhi sasingenaso ngempela isikhathi sokungena kuso - kodwa wavele wamemezela ukuthi okwenzekile bekungeke kwenzeke. Angaba uqinisile, kepha ngiyakungabaza impela, futhi noma kunjalo akusona isizathu sokuthi akekho noyedwa e-United States owaziyo ukuthi lesi sehlakalo sike senzeka - futhi besisenzeka iminyaka. Isizathu sihlobene nesizathu sokuthi abantu base-US (abantu abavela esizweni sase-United States ngokungafani namazwekazi aseMelika) badansa emgwaqweni lapho kumenyezelwa ukufa kukaBin Laden: ukuze abe nempi enhle, umuntu kufanele alwe namandla amabi angaphansi komuntu ukuxoxisana okungenakwenzeka.
Angicabangi ukuthi abantu bazi ngokweqiniso ngokunikezwa okuningana kweTaliban kokuguqula uBin Laden. Uma lokho kulungile, lokho "kungamela" okukhulu kunalokho. Ukuphi umshini? Futhi, angicabangi ukuthi isakhamuzi esijwayelekile siyazi ukuthi ukuzibandakanya kwethu e-Afghanistan akuzange kulimaze njengoba kukhangisiwe. Singakwazi kanjani ukuqhubeka uma izinjongo kanye namagama emikhankaso yezempi eqhubeka nokushintsha? Ukungazi kwethu kuyingozi ngempela.
Ukungazi ukuthi yikuphi ukuphikisana kwempi njengokhuni kungumlilo womlilo. Nquma ukungazi nokuphela kwempi. I Washington Post kulo nyaka odlule ucele abaseMelika baseMelika ukuthi bathole i-Ukraine ebalazweni. Ingxenyana encane ingakwenza, futhi labo ababeka i-Ukraine kude kakhulu nendawo eyiyo impela babenamathuba amakhulu okufuna ukuthi amasosha ase-US ahlasele i-Ukraine. Kwakukhona ukuhlangana: omncane wayazi ukuthi KUPHI i-Ukraine lapho ayefuna ukuthi ihlaselwe khona - futhi lokhu ngemuva kokulawula ezinye izinto ezihlukile.
Ngikhunjuzwa ngomdlalo wamahlaya waseCanada obizwa nge-Talking to Americans ongawathola ku-Youtube. Umfana ubuza abantu abaningi baseMelika ukuthi ngabe isizwe sakwa ”futhi uthi igama eliqanjiwe lesizwe esakhiwe” sidinga ukuhlaselwa. Yebo, bayamtshela, ngesizotha, zonke ezinye izinketho, ngokudabukisayo, ngokudabukisayo sebephelile. Manje-ke, usomahlaya kungenzeka ukuthi ushiye izimpendulo eziningi ezihlakaniphile egumbini lokusika, kepha ngiyangabaza ukuthi bekufanele asebenze kanzima ukuthola labo abayizimungulu - bengizokubheja noma yisiphi isamba engingazithola njengamanje ngaphandle kokushiya isitolo sekhofi engikuso.
Akukho ndawo ngaphandle kwase-United States lapho abantu bacabanga ngokuqhuma kwamabhomu njenganoma yikuphi ohlwini lwezinketho. E-United States, abantu bacabanga ukuthi kuyindlela yokuqala futhi kuphela. Unenkinga? Ake siyiqhume ngamabhomu. Kepha baphoqelekile ukwenza sengathi kuyindlela yokugcina, noma ngabe akukho lutho olunye olwake lwazanywa noma lwacatshangwa ngoba usomahlaya wenza nje izwe elingekho ukubuza ngalo. Ngakho-ke akekho owaziyo ukuthi uDubya utshele uMongameli waseSpain ukuthi uHussein uzimisele ukushiya i-Iraq uma engaba ne- $ 1 billion. NGOKUQINISEKILE (!!!) Ngingathanda ukumbona uHussein ezame amacala akhe, kepha ngangihle ngimbone eshiya nezigidigidi zamaRandi kunokuba kwenzeke impi - impi echithe i-Iraq.
I-Iraq ayisoze yalulama. Abafileyo ngeke bavuswe. Abalimele ngeke belapheke. Isizathu sokuthi abantu benze sengathi impi iyisinqumo sokugcina ukuthi akukho okubi kakhulu kunempi. Isizathu sokuthi kuhlale kungukuzenzisa okudinga amanga nokuzikhohlisa ukuthi ezinye izinketho zihlala zikhona. Ngakho-ke umkhuba WOKUZIPHENDULELA sidinga impi noma ukuthi sidinga EZINYE zezimpi zigxiliswe kakhulu kuze kufike kubantu ngokuzenzekelayo noma ezimweni ezingenangqondo kakhulu. Futhi cabanga ukuthi yikuphi okungenangqondo: ukuxhasa ukuqhunyiswa kwamabhomu kwesizwe esiqanjiwe noma ukusekela ukuqhunyiswa kwamabhomu e-Iraq naseSyria ngakolunye uhlangothi lwempi otshelwe ukuthi kufanele ijoyine unyaka ngaphambili, wenza kanjalo yize isifiso sesitha esishiwo ngokusobala sokuthi wena yenza lokhu ukukhulisa ukuqashwa kwayo, futhi ikwenze lokhu naphezu kokwenza kabusha impi eyisimungulu, impi wonke umuntu ayizondayo, impi leyo enanela ukuvimbela ukuqaliswa kwemicibisholo ezinyangeni eziyi-12 ngaphambili.
Uma kubekwa ngaleyo ndlela, kuyacaca ukuthi sibanjwa ngohlobo oluthile lomjikelezo ononya. Isibonelo sezwe elingamanga sijabule ngokuqhuma ibhomu liyesabeka, empeleni. Yini esingayenza ukuqeda lowo mjikelezo?
Ngicabanga ukuthi kufanele siyeke ukuphikisana nempi entsha ngayinye sodwa. Ubugqila abuzange buqedwe (ngezinga elibalulekile lokuthi ubugqila bokutshala buphelile) ngokuphikisana nesitshalo esisodwa. Amaqembu oxolo agxile ezindlekweni kumhlukumezi ngendlela yokuthi akekho owaziyo ukuthi izimpi zibulala abantu abaningi emazweni abuthaka angakwazi ukulwa nawo. Ukulimala kwamasosha ase-US kuyesabeka, kanye nodoti wezezimali. (Empeleni, izimpilo ezilahlekile ngokungasebenzisi imali ngezindlela ezilusizo zikudlula kude kakhulu izimpilo ezibulewe ezimpini.) Kepha ngeke sibenze abantu baphikisane nokubulawa kwabantu abaningi size siqale ukuziphatha sengathi bangakwazi. Lokho kudinga ukuthi siqale ukubatshela ukuthi ziyini lezi zimpi: ababulali ababodwa. Kufanele senze icala LOKUZIPHATHA ngokumelene nobubi obukhulu kunabo bonke esibudalile - ngaphandle komlingani walo ebugebengwini: ukubhujiswa kwemvelo.
Ukwenza icala lokuqedwa, kufanele sanelise izimpikiswano zabantu ezinengqondo ngokuchaza ukuthi impi ayisenzi siphephe, ayisenzi sibe abacebile, ayinaso isiphikiso sokukalwa ngokubhujiswa. Futhi kufanele sanelise izifiso zabantu ezingenangqondo nezimfuno ezingashiwongo futhi. Abantu badinga uthando nomphakathi kanye nokubamba iqhaza entweni enkulu kunabo, badinga ukwesaba kwabo kubhekwane nabo, badinga ukuthi izinkanuko zabo zikhululwe, badinga amamodeli abo namaqhawe abanjiwe, badinga ithuba lokuba noma lokucabanga ukuba nesibindi, ukuzidela, futhi comradely.
Kepha manje sengiqala ukuphendula umbuzo ophendulwa yiwebhusayithi iWorldBeyondWar.org ngokuqondakalayo. Leyo sayithi iwumsebenzi oqhubekayo, kanjalo nephrojekthi elichaza futhi libike ngayo. Isinyathelo sokuqala, nokho, ngingasho ngamafuphi: Kufanele sivume ukuthi impi iyakhethwa, ukuthi iyisinqumo, ayibekelwe thina, ukuthi sinomthwalo wokuyigcina njengotshalomali olukhulu lomphakathi noma yilinganise emuva noma uyiqede.
Ngiyajabula ukuthi unikeze iwebhusayithi yeWorldBeyondWar.org ukuze abantu bafunde kabanzi. Kukhona ongathanda ukukungeza?
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Ungomunye umuntu omatasa. Abafundi, qaphela zonke lezi zinsiza. Noma yini enye ngaphambi kokuba siyihlanganise lokhu?
Ukuthula, Uthando Nokuqonda!
Unyaka Omusha Ojabulisayo - Sengathi ungadlula ithemba futhi ushintshe ngenkathi ushintsha lokho esikuthenjayo!
Amen kulokho! Ngiyabonga kakhulu ngokukhuluma nami, David. Kuhlale kuyintokozo.
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Abathumeli Bio:
UJoan Brunwasser ungomunye wabasunguli beCitizens for Election Reform (CER) okuqale kusukela ngo-2005 kwaba khona ngenhloso eyodwa yokuqwashisa umphakathi ngesidingo esibucayi sokuguqulwa kwezokhetho. Inhloso yethu: ukubuyisela ukhetho olunobulungiswa, olunembile, olusobala, noluphephile lapho amavoti afakwa ngasese futhi abalwa emphakathini. Ngenxa yokuthi izinkinga zezinhlelo zokuvota ezenziwa ngogesi (zekhompyutha) zifaka ukungabi bikho obala kanye namandla okuhlola ngokunembile nokuqinisekisa ukuvota, lezi zinhlelo zingaguqula imiphumela yokhetho ngakho-ke zimane ziphikisana nezimiso zentando yeningi nokusebenza kwazo. Kusukela okhethweni olubalulekile lukaMongameli lwango-2004, uJoan uzobona ukuxhumana phakathi kohlelo lokhetho olwephukile, ukungasebenzi kahle, abezindaba bezinkampani kanye nokuntuleka okuphelele kwezinguquko zemali yomkhankaso. Lokhu kumenze wakhulisa imingcele yokubhala kwakhe ukufaka izingxoxo nabashayi bezimpempe futhi akhulume nabanye abanikeza umbono ohluke kakhulu kulowo owethulwe yimithombo yezindaba ejwayelekile. Ubuye akhanyise izishoshovu nabantu abajwayelekile abalwela ukwenza umehluko, ukuhlanza nokwenza ngcono indawo yabo yomhlaba. Ngokugxila kulaba bantu abanesibindi, unikeza ithemba nokukhuthazeka kulabo okungenzeka bavaliwe futhi bahlukaniswe. Ubuye axoxisane nabantu kwezobuciko ngazo zonke izinhlobo zabo - ababhali, izintatheli, abenzi bamafilimu, abalingisi, ababhali bemidlalo, nabaculi. Kungani? Iqiniso: ngaphandle kobuciko nogqozi, silahlekelwa enye yezingxenye ezinhle kakhulu kithi. Futhi sonke sikulokhu ndawonye. Uma uJoan ekwazi ukugcina ngisho esinye sezakhamizi zakhe zihamba ngolunye usuku, ubheka umsebenzi wakhe wenziwe kahle. Ngenkathi uJoan eshaya ukubukwa kwamakhasi ayisigidi, uMhleli Ophethe we-OEN, uMeryl Ann Butler uxoxisane naye, waphendula osabuzayo kafushane waba ngundabuzekwayo. Funda le ngxoxo lapha.
Ngenkathi izindaba zivame ukucindezela impela, uJoan nokho ulwela ukugcina imantra yakhe: "Bamba impilo manje ngokwanga okujabulisayo!" UJoan ubenguMhleli Wobuqotho Bokhetho we-OpEdNews kusukela ngoDisemba, 2005. Imibhalo yakhe ibuye ibonakale nakuHuffington Post, eRepublicMedia.TV nakuScoop.co.nz.
