Pane mutsara unobva mukukurudzira runyararo kweAmerican Quaker movement: "Taura Chokwadi kune Simba." Mumwe haakwanisi kutaura zvakananga kune simba pane kutaura nePresidential Administration yeUnited States. Muna Gumiguru apfuura, vadzidzi veIslamabad's Islamic International University vaive nemeseji yeMunyori weNyika Hillary Clinton. Mumwe mudzidzi akapfupikisa kuvhiringidzika kwevaaishanda navo vakawanda. "Hatidi America," akadaro. "Zvinhu zvaive nani vasati vauya kuno."
Vadzidzi vanga vachichema kurasikirwa neupenyu paYunivhesiti yavo apo, svondo rapfuura, mabhomba maviri akazviuraya akapinda pachikoro akapfeka zvinoputika ndokusiya vadzidzi vanomwe vafa uye makumi evamwe vakakuvara zvakaipisisa. Kubva muchirimo cha2009, vachimanikidzwa nevatungamiriri veUS kuti "vaite zvakawanda" kudzinga mauto eTaliban, hurumende yePakistan yanga ichirwisa mauto kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero kwenyika. Uku kurwiswa kwebhomba kwakabvisa mamirioni uye hurumende yePakistan yakapa mvumo yakavhurika yekurwiswa kwakafanana nemadrones emuchadenga eUS. Vhiki rega rega, mapoka evarwi vePakistan akatanga hutsinye hutsva hwekutsiva muPakistan, kuuraya mazana evamwe vanhu mumisika, zvikoro, zvivakwa zvehurumende, mamosque nenzvimbo dzemitambo. Ndiani angapomera mudzidzi aitenda kuti mhuri yake neshamwari dzaive nani US isati yatanga kusimbirira kuti Pakistan ishande pamwe nezvinangwa zvemauto eUS mudunhu?
MuAfghanistan yakavakidzana, 2009 raive gore rakafa zvakanyanya kuvana veAfghan kubvira 2001, maererano neAfghanistan Rights Monitor. Mune chirevo chaNdira 6, boka rakaona kuti muna 2009 vana vangangosvika zana nemakumi mashanu vakafa mukurwisa kuzviuraya, kuputika kwemumugwagwa, kurohwa nemhepo uye kuyambuka-moto pakati pevapanduki veTaliban nemauto ehurumende, vese veAfghan nevekunze. Director weboka, Ajmal Samadi, akataura kuti huwandu uhu hunosvika vana vatatu pazuva. Zvinofungidzirwa kuti chikamu chimwe muzvitatu cherufu rwevana ava chakakonzerwa nemauto emubatanidzwa weUS/NATO. Vhiki rino, mazana evaAfghan vakapinda mumigwagwa vachiratidzira mushure mekunge hurumende yeAfghan yati ongororo yayo yaratidza kuti vanhu gumi vakaurayiwa nemauto eUS musi wa1050 Ndira, mumusha uri kure mudunhu reKunar, vaive vanhuwo zvavo uye kuti vasere veavo. vakaurayiwa vaiva vana vechikoro, vane makore 10-3. The London Times inoshuma kuti mauto anotungamirirwa neU.S. akapomerwa kuzvuzvurudza vana vasina mhaka pamibhedha yavo, kusunga vanoverengeka vavo mumaoko, uye ipapo kuvauraya vose vari vasere.
Nyaya dzekuuraya, kutyisa uye hurombo hazvisi zvitsva muIraq, Afghanistan, kana Pakistan. Makore gumi apfuura, imwe neimwe yenyika idzi yakatambura pasi pehutongi hwakadzvanyirira uye hurombo hwakanyanya. Panyaya yeIraq, mamiriro aya akaitwa zvakanyanya kuipa nezvirango zvehupfumi zvakatemerwa neUS izvo zvakaranga vagari veIraqi vasina mhosva nekutadza kwavo kusimuka kubva pasi pehutongi hwehutsinye hwaSaddam Hussein, nguva yese iyi zvichivapa kuti vavimbe nehutongi hwaHussein kuti vakwanise kurarama. zvinodiwa. Zvakadaro mukutambudzika kwese uku kwakatangira kupinda kweUS mudunhu iri, pakanga paine nhoroondo shoma dzekubhomba kwekuzviuraya munyika umo US yave kuhondo. Maindasitiri e“kupamba uye kurwadziswa nokuda kworudzikinuro,” zvino akatekeshera munyika dzose dziri nhatu, akanga asati abudirira, uye upfumi hwawo hwose hwakanga husina kukanganiswa nouori huri pachena huri pachena.
Chii chave nekupinda nekupinda kweUS muIraq, Afghanistan nePakistan? Uye hondo idzi dziri kugadzira sei kuchengetedzwa kwevanhu veUS?
The New York Times yakashuma munaNovember 14, 2009 kuti, maererano nefungidziro yehurumende yeUnited States, inodhura mamiriyoni emadhora kuchengetedza musoja muAfghanistan kwegore rimwe. Funga nezvehuwandu uhwu uchitarisa chokwadi chekuti, muAfghanistan, magavhuna ematunhu anowana madhora makumi manomwe pamwedzi. Mari yavo yekushandisa imadhora gumi nemashanu pamwedzi, uye hafu yavo havana hofisi yakatsaurirwa. Kana, tichifunga nezveUN inofungidzira kuti Gross Domestic Product, per capita, muAfghanistan, iri pasi pe $70 pagore. Kana kuti The United Nations’s Children’s Fund, iyo inozivikanwa seUNICEF, inoti Afghanistan ndiyo nzvimbo yakaipisisa pasi rose kuberekwa, ine nhamba yepamusoro-soro yekufa kwevacheche pasi rose nekufa mazana maviri nemakumi mashanu nevanomwe pavana chiuru chimwe chete vanozvarwa. Chikamu che15 muzana chete chevaAfghan ndivo vanogona kuwana mvura yakachena.
Kai Eide, Mumiriri Akakosha ari kubuda weUnited Nations Secretary-General kuAfghanistan, akaudza UN Security Council musi wa5 Ndira 2010. Nezvezviitwa zvechiuto, akataura pachena kuti "kukuvadzwa kwevanhu, kusechwa kwedzimba, uye mitemo yekuvharirwa ndiyo manyuko. yekutsvagirwa basa rekumukira."
Hutongi hwaPresident Obama munguva pfupi iri kutevera huri kutarisirwa kukumbira imwe "emergency" yekuwedzera mari yehondo dzeIraq neAfghan, panguva ino pakati pemakumi mana nemakumi mashanu emadhora. Kana (vamwe vangati, riinhi) nhamba iyi ikatenderwa, ichaita kuti 40 rive gore rinodhura zvakanyanya reHondo yeKutyisa irikuenderera mberi, ichipfuura mashandisirwo akaitwa naPresident Bush nechikamu chakakosha. Gore risati rapera, Mutungamiri Obama vachange vaendesawo chinhu chebhajeti kuti vape mari kuhondo muna 50, nemasoja ave kutoronga kukumbira chimwe chinhu chiri pakati pemadhora zana nemakumi matanhatu nemakumi matanhatu nemashanu emadhora.
Bumbiro remitemo remuAmerica rinoti kongiresi haichaita mutemo wekubvisa kodzero dzevanhu dzekuungana murunyararo kuti zvichemo zvigadziriswe. Tiri kurwadziwa zvikuru noupenzi hwehondo idzi. Kodzero yedu yekusununguka kutaura haina basa kana tikasaishandisa, uye saka tinoda kusimudza kuchema kweavo vanotakura dambudziko rehondo dzedu asi manzwi avo haawanzosvika kune vehurumende yeUS.
Kwemavhiki maviri Ndira uno, zvichitungamira kuzuva iro Mutungamiri Obama anofanirwa kuendesa bhajeti rake reFiscal Year 2011 kuCongress, Voices for Creative Nonviolence uye shamwari dzichaungana muWashington D.C. kune "Peaceable Assembly Campaign" chirongwa. (www.peaceableassemblycampaign.org)
Tichange tichisangana nevamiriri vakasarudzwa kuti tibvunze mibvunzo pamusoro pehupenzi uye mhosva yehondo, tichibata zuva nezuva kuWhite House, uye kuita zviito zvekusateerera kwevanhu vasingateereri kuti tisimbise kuramba kwedu kushandira pamwe nevagadziri vehondo.
Tinokukurudzira kuti ubatane nesu muchirongwa chegore rose, mungave muWashington D.C. mwedzi uno, kana kutora chikamu munharaunda yaunogara. Ndokumbirawo uve nechokwadi chekushanyira iyo Voices webhusaiti, www.vcnv.org, kudzidza zvakawanda nezve nzira dzekubatanidzwa, zvese munharaunda kuburikidza nechirimo chiri kuuya uye muMazuva Ekuramba muWashington. Tichange tiripo kubva muna Ndira 19 kusvika Kukadzi 2nd.
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Kathy Kelly ([email inodzivirirwa]) inobatanidza Voices for Creative Nonviolence.