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His grandfather
insists that his only real hope lies in the fact that he is a
Muslim. Yunus Kawari wouldn’t be in Iraq if it weren’t for George
Bush—-if a sovereign nation hadn’t been pillaged thus and splayed
for economic gains for the “willing,” the Saudis wouldn’t have
coerced a coarse breadwinner to take such unwarranted risks. After
all, he has a family 13 heads strong.
If the Mujaheddin were created with American assistance, if
anti-American passions in the Middle-East have been fanned by the
Americans, it is not too much of a stretch to say that ordinary men
who have been push to kidnap and kill innocent people have been
created by the Americans, too. The US foreign policy has played
midwife to too much strife now. It has made beasts of ordinary
people. Just as Russia sends young widows to self-immolating
terrorism, US foreign policy incites hatred against itself so strong
that the most ordinary people are pushed into the most destructive
hatred.
Yet, if George Bush hadn’t invaded Iraq and poured in such a vast
amount of American tax-payers’ money into the “reconstruction,” this
dismal instance of redistribution of American wealth wouldn’t have
been possible. Regrettable as it is that the middle-class of America
ends up paying for the hordes of workers from various parts of South
and South-East Asia employed in the “reconstruction” effort, it must
be recognized that opportunities, tempting enough that a breadwinner
for a family of 13 would jump to it, have been created through this
fiasco of Republican concerting.
Give Bush all the money he asks for his subsequent wars—-just ask
him to outsource all of the weapons manufacturing jobs. That will
quench both his thirst to profit the richest Americans and will also
redistribute wealth through out the world: after all, death and
destruction—-immediate and promised—remains the largest American
export.
I hope Yunus Kawari will not meet the fate doled out to his 12
fellow Nepalese earlier this year—-they were beheaded by their
captors. Among their crimes—-working for imperialist America [most
men were employed at American bases, doing the most demeaning menial
jobs], and being the followers of a false prophet named Buddha.
South Asian countries like Nepal, India and Bangladesh contribute
about a quarter of the entire UN peace-keeping force—-amounting to
around 17,000. The US deploys less than 500. But, to be fair, the
American army is heavily bogged down by other more pressing
commitments—-like invading nations, spreading its monotheistic
notion of good, vanquishing all evil that dare disagree.
When the US supports a dictator in Africa and allows the country to
spiral into violence, a Bangladeshi regiment gets to keep peace and
earn more than the regular monthly pay. Of course, the guns—-that
create the violence and those that quell—-are mostly American. But
that is a trivial detail we ought not to pore over.
The cashier lady at Safeway said it had been a difficult toss-up
between Kerry and Bush, and she had had to pray. Obviously, the
answer was George Bush. When you hear the claim that God himself has
put Bush in the White House, remember her.
There seems to be an air of jubilation among South Asians after
Bush’s victory—-more outsourcing of American jobs to the
sub-continent, more implicit money to fight the war of terror, no
pressure upon India to sign treaties against further nuclear tests.
But, it must also be remembered that this administration has taken
away funds previously allocated to assist poor women have a choice
regarding their reproductive rights. While this administration might
benefit a handful of already rich people, it continues to hurt the
genuinely downtrodden and poor. Let us be simple and silent
witnesses to four more years of George Bush’s lampoonery.
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