Nasachigaro weJoint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers, akataura kuti “Kungwara hakureve hazvo kuti chimwe chinhu ichokwadi. Handizvo zvinoita njere.”
Ramba uchifunga izvozvo pandinokurukura zvakanzi naJames Baldwin "humbowo hwezvinhu zvisingaonekwe."
Masvondo mashoma apfuura muCancun, ndakatarisa pazvivhariso apo murimi wekuSouth Korea airatidza kuzunza chibhakera nehasha dzechiuto pakutorerwa vanhu vake. Handina kuona kuti aizviuraya nebanga. Sekuziva kwangu, hapana mumwe. Maawa gare gare, WTO yakabudisa pepanhau ichitaura "kuzvidemba" kwayaidana kuti "kuzvikuvadza" ronda rakakonzera rufu rwemutungamiri wepurazi. Ndakatanga kufunga kuti vangani vamwe vakafa vatinoona asi hativaone. Varimi muIndia vanozvipa chepfu nemishonga yezvipembenene. Varimi muAmerica vachizviuraya chinyararire. Kuwedzera kwekuzviuraya pakati pemauto eAmerica muIraq.
Kufa kusingaonekwe uku kunofanirwa kuonekwa sezviratidzo zvenguva. Iwo marwadzo ekusununguka zvakare. Semuyenzaniso, mumavhiki matatu apfuura vanhu makumi masere vekuBolivia vakapa hupenyu hwavo - kasika kekutanga muhondo yavo yemakore mazana mashanu - asi macocoleros aya, vashandi vesweatshop, maindio aya, akapidigura hurumende nenyaya dzekudyidzana kwenyika uye varidzi vemigodhi, mutungamiri weAmerica akadzidziswa kurongedza.
Humbowo hwezvinhu zvisingaonekwe. Parikusimuka bato idzva munyika. Ihombe kudarika kufamba kwema1960s. Zvakadaro hazvionekwe nenyanzvi uye vanoongorora. Vanotarisa chete maitiro emasangano uye vezvematongerwo enyika, kwete masimba epasi anozopedzisira aonekwa.
Rudzi rwekutanga rwebato idzva iri nderekupokana kwepasi rose kuhondo muIraq uye kune humambo hweAmerica.
Rimwe gore rapfuura mwedzi uno, apo varatidziri vanopfuura zviuru zana vakarova migwagwa muWashington DC, New York Times yakashuma kuti zvinoshamisa kuti vashoma vakapinda kufora kwehondo, pamwe nekutya mupfuri. National Public Radio yakadzokorora nyaya. Vaizotadza sei kuona 100,000 100,000? Sezvinei nekuti kuratidzira kwakadaro kwaisafanira kuitika zvakare. Zvese zviri zviviri Times neNPR vakamanikidzwa kukumbira ruregerero mazuva mashoma gare gare uye taura nezvekuuya kukuru. Zvino, mune kumwe kururamisa, Times yakazivisa muna Kukadzi kuti kune "simba rechipiri" pasirese kuwedzera kuWhite House, yaive maonero eruzhinji rwepasirese. Panguva iyoyo vanhu vane mamiriyoni gumi vakanga vachiratidzira pasi rose; mamiriyoni maviri muRome, miriyoni imwe muLondon, 10 muMontreal mune 200,000-madhigirii-pasi pemamiriro ekunze - kunyange vashoma vakashinga muMcMurdo Station muAntarctica.
Rudzi rwechipiri isangano rekururamisira pasi rose, iro rakatanga neZapatistas pazuva rakatanga kushanda NAFTA, ndokuzoonekwa muSeattle muna 1999. Izvo zvainzi zviitiko zvega. Ipapo kwakauya Genoa, Guta reQuebec, Quito, Cancun, maforamu enzanga enyika muPorto Allegre. Kure nezviitiko zvoga, idzi dzakanga dziri nhandare dzehondo dzenhau itsva dziri kutanga.
Pamwe chete mafambiro aya anokwidza dambudziko kumaonero enyika yose. Tiri kuona kukura kwechiremerera, kuwedzera kwezvatinoona sezvitsvene uye naizvozvo kubva patafura, kwete kutaurirana. Vanonzi Vanashe veChisiko Chapose pose vava kusashanda sezvakaita vaya vaimboti vane kodzero youmwari yemadzimambo. Nyika navanhu vayo hazvitengeswi; mhoteredzo haisati ichingova dura rezvinhu zvokushandisa; uye kuzivikanwa kwetsika hakugoni kutsiviwa sokunge zvinhu zvinotengeswa, zvingava pfuma yeBhabhironi kana masango anonaya mvura yakawanda eAmazon. Sangano iri riri kuti kusiyana-siyana hakuzopambwa.
Nei izvi zviri kuitika? Hapana anonyatsoziva. Mafambiro anomuka akavanzika kumucheto, anozopedzisira achinja mainstream, anodzvinyirirwa kana kusarudzwa, uye anodzokera kune yakakanganwa yatinodaidza kuti nhoroondo yepamutemo.
Imwe tsananguro ndeyekuti kudyidzana kwepasirese kwemauto eUS uye masimba ehupfumi kuri kudyidzana pasi rose. Iyo dialectic uye, sezvainotenderera uye ichiwedzera inogona kutodzikisa George Bush.
Kudyidzana kutsva kwepasi rose uku kunomuka, vamwe vanoti, mukupindura kuvharwa kwemagetsi mushure meCold War iyo US yakazadza. Asi zvakapesana nevanofungidzira magumo enhorondo, kukundikana nekupunzika kwecommunism hakuna kureva kuti matauriro akanga afa uye kuti varombo vepanyika vaizoenda chinyararire.
Asi kudyidzana kwepasirese kwaive kusimuka kare makore ekuma90 asati asvika, NAFTA isati yasvika neWTO, World Bank neIMF. Kugadziriswa kweAmerica pachayo kwaive chiitiko chekoloni uye "budiriro." Zvino kwakauya Manifest Destiny, kukundwa kwemarudzi echiIndia, kutorwa kwenyika dzekumadokero, hondo neMexico, kubvutwa kweHawaii nePhilippine.
Kuvanhu vemunyika Kukunda hakusati kwapera. Zvizhinji zvezvirongwa zvedu zvekubatsira kune dzimwe nyika uye mitemo yemagariro inongova kuedza kugadzirisa Kukunda, kwete kupedza chimiro chayo chisingaoneki chehukama hwemasimba.
KuvaMuslim, Hondo Dzorudzidziso hadzisati dzapera. Tinofanira kubvunza kana maCrusades apera kuMutungamiri Bush. Paive nekutsvedza kwerurimi apo akatsanangura hondo yehugandanga secrusade. Paive neKugadzwa kwake, kwakakomborerwa naMufundisi Franklin Graham, avo vakashora maMuslim uye nekuzvikudza vakatungamira kupetwa kana kwemamishinari muIraq kubva muhondo yekutanga yeGulf. Vhiki rino pane zvakazarurwa zvemumwe muKristu crusader panhongonya yePentagon, Gen. William Boykin.
Kuita zvepasirese uye kuita zvechiuto ndidzo nzira mbiri dzeUS kuda kutonga, kufambisa mafambiro edu kuenda kunopikisa kwakabatana.
Iyo National Security Strategy yaGunyana 2002, iyo yakazivisa Bush Doctrine ye pre-emptive war, yaisanganisirawo musika wemahara, kutengeserana kwemahara uye FTAA semisimboti iyo Pentagon inosungirwa kufambira mberi nekudzivirira. Saka mutemo wedu wepamutemo wekuchengetedzwa kwenyika unopfuura hugandanga, kuwanda kwenyukireya kana kutyisidzira kwemauto zviri pamutemo; ndezvekudzivirira izvo zvinonzi negwaro iri "mucherechedzo umwechete wakasimba webudiriro yenyika."
Kana kuti sokutaura kunoita Thomas Friedman, mutsigiri mukuru wekudyidzana kwenyika dzepasi pose, kuti: “Ruoko rwakavanzika rwemusika haruzomboshanda pasina chibhakera chakavanzika. McDonalds haigone kubudirira pasina McDonnell-Douglas. "
Tora muenzaniso weIraq nhasi, kubviswa kwakazara uye kushambadzira kweruzhinji chikamu (nemafuta chete akaregererwa kusvika zvino). L. Paul Bremer, murume anopfeka masutu epinstripe uye bhutsu dzehondo, anomiririra vatengi vaHenry Kissinger vasingaoneki vemakambani, zviri pachena kuti basa rake nderekutsiva hutongi hweIraqi hwehupfumi hwayo nemuenzaniso wemusika wakasununguka unodzorwa nevaridzi vekunze vasipo. kunyanya kubva kuUS. Kuzvibatsira kune zvakapambwa zvehondo chikamu chehurongwa hwedu hwekuchengetedza nyika.
Kunyange paine kushorwa kuri kuramba kuchikura munyika ino kuhuwandu hwekufa kweAmerica uye mutengo webhajeti weIraqi quagmire, hapana kana nharo pamusoro pekurwiswa kwedu kweruzhinji rweIraq nezvakanyorwa naBremer. Kungobatana kwakadzama kwesangano repasi rose rekururamisira pamwe nesangano rerunyararo kunogona kutanga kufumura nekupikisa mitemo iyi.
Chokwadi izvi hazvisi zvitsva. Halliburton yakabatana naKellogg, Brown uye Root, iyo Texas corporation iyo yakapa mari Lyndon Johnson kusimuka pachigaro. Yakavakawo nhandare dzendege muVietnam, dzakava fenzi dzesimbi kumuganhu weUS-Mexico, uye nhasi uno kuzvarwa patsva semubatsiri weDick Cheney munhandare dzehondo dzeIraq.
Saizvozvo, munyori weiyo inonzi "kurwiswa kwebudiriro" thesis, Samuel Huntington, ndiye mupi wezano mumwechete akagadzira dzidziso ye "kumanikidzwa maguta" kuSouth Vietnam, achishandura nemaune 90-muzana tsika yevarimi kuita dhorobha "Honda. tsika” mumakore gumi.
Chii chitsva ndiko kushinga kwekutyaira kwepasi rinotongwa neAmerica. "Humambo huri kubuda muwadhiropu" anonyora Charles Krautheimer. “Chii chakaipa nekutonga?” anobvunza William Kristol. Uye Max Boot anodaidzira kuti adzokere kuBritish-style imperialism yakazara ne "mamaneja akajekeswa mujodhpurs uye ngowani dzepith."
Kuwedzera kwese uku kwepasirese kwakabatana zvisina mutsetse kumberi kwemba. Hazvirevi chete kudzikiswa kwerusununguko rwevanhu uye kumutsidzirwa kwekuzvikudza kwekuda nyika pakati pevezvenhau vemakambani, asiwo kuwedzera kusati kwamboitika mukushandiswa kwemauto, kuderedzwa kwemitero uye kushomeka. Uku hakusi kuwedzeredza kusvika munaGunyana 11, kana kuwandisa kwemutemo, asi chikamu chemaitiro ekuderedza kodzero dzedemokrasi uye kubvisa mari yehurumende yedemokrasi. Iwo kurwisa kwemusuwo pane zvakawanikwa neGreat Society, iyo New Deal uye zvisati zvaitika iyo Progressive bato raidzora capitalism mukutanga kwezana ramakore rapfuura. The Republican agenda ndeyekudzokera kunharaunda umo misika inokoshesa kunyura uye kutsiva chinzvimbo cheruzhinji muhupfumi.
Tora semuenzaniso Grover Norquist, anozvifarira ari generalissimo mukumukira kwekuchengetedza. Pasi pechiratidzo chisina mhosva che "kugadzirisa mutero," Norquist anotarisira kuti mitero yakakwana uye kuderedzwa kwebhajeti "kuchanyura mucheche mubhavhu."
Ari kutaura nezve kudzoreredza kutarisirwa kwevana, hutano, zvikoro zvehurumende, mari yeruzhinji mukati meguta, mari yeruzhinji munzvimbo yakadzoreredzwa. Anoona hurumende, sangano rehurumende, sekukundikana kubviswa, kwete panzvimbo yesangano kutidzivirira kubva pakukundikana kwemusika.
Kana kuti tora Niall Ferguson, mutsigiri mukuru wehumambo uye mupi wezvinyorwa zvakawanda zvine simba muNew York Times, uyo akarumbidza Ethic yePurotesitendi semusiyano mukuru pakati peAmerica neEurope. Rega ndikutore iwe mukupokana kwake kwakangwara ndakamiririra WASP America. Kutanga, iye anocherekedza kuti vaAmerica vanopinda minamato yechechi muzviverengero zvikuru zvikuru kupfuura vokuEurope, ufakazi hwokuti “tsika dzechiPurotesitendi” dzaMax Weber dziripo uye dziripo. Somuuyo, vaAmerica vanotuswa kushanda nesimba uye kwenguva refu kupfuura maGermany, maFrench, maDutch namaNorwegian avo “vasina maturo nenzira inoshamisa,” “vanonyara kushanda” uye, chokwadika, “vasingadi Mwari.” Anoti Mitemo yePurotesitendi iri kutsiviwa muEurope no“mudzimu wousimbe hwokunyika.”
Ferguson ari kugunun'una kuti vashandi vekuGermany vari pabasa maawa 1,535 chete pagore kana vachienzaniswa nevanhu vakanaka vekuAmerica vanogaya pamaawa 1,976. Musiyano iwoyo weanopfuura maawa 400 akashandiswa wakaenzana nemazuva 62 pagore. Ferguson - uye vadziviriri vekudyidzana kwenyika dzepasi rose kazhinji - vanoda kumisa vanhu vekuEurope kutora zororo refu nemhuri dzavo uye kuenda pamudyandigere kare kuti vanakidzwe nehupenyu. Vanoda kudzokera shure - vanozvidaidza kuti shanduko - kubudirira kwevashandi kwezana rose rapfuura.
Zvakanaka, ndinokuudza, kana vanhu vekuAmerica vakadzidza kuverenga pakati pemitsara uye kunzwisisa kuti kunetsana nevaEurope pamusoro pei, ivo vanoramba scapegoating uye bashing iyo inobuda muKutonga uku.
Panzvimbo pekutarisa pasi mhino dzedu kune veEurope, isu tinofanira kunge tichiita European maitiro edu ekushanda, mazororo uye nguva yekuzorora - uye nekuda kweiyo nyaya, Canadianizing nzira yedu kune hutano hwehutano. Ndizvo zvakaita sei papuratifomu inofambira mberi - zororo refu kune vese!
Pane kudaro, nekuda kwehupfungwa hwetsika, ongororo ichangobva kuitika yakaratidza kuti 19 muzana yevaAmerica vaifunga kuti vatove muchikamu chepamusoro chemari, uye imwe 1 muzana yaitenda kuti vaizova pakupedzisira. Ndizvo zvinogona kuitwa nekuona terevhizheni yakawandisa pakati pehumambo, uye nei kurwisa kuri kwetsika, kwete kungoita zvematongerwo enyika kana zvehupfumi, asi hondo pamusoro pekuti mifananidzo nemadhimoni nefungidziro zvinogadzirwa sei uye zvakabatanidzwa mukuziva kwedu.
Asi kune zviwanikwa zvisingaonekwe munhoroondo yedu zvinogona kutisimbisa kuhondo iyi. Tinotenda, vanyori venhoroondo vakaita saHoward Zinn vakatiratidza "nhoroondo yevanhu" iyo yakakosha kudzoreredza sezviwanikwa zvedu zvetsika nemagariro.
Kwaive nevaya vaipikisa hutsinye hwepakutanga uye kutyora zvibvumirano zvekurwisa zvizvarwa zvemunyika idzi. Tinokudza muenzaniso wavo. Paive nevaAmerica vaipikisa huranda, vaipikisa kutorwa, vaipikisa hondo neCuba neMexico, vaipikisa kuzviisa pasi kwevakadzi. Tinovakudza muhupenyu hwedu nhasi. Sierra Club yakavambwa pano, maAbolitionists, NAACP, maSuffragettes, maPopulists, vashandi vekune dzimwe nyika veLowell vakafora vachitsvaga chingwa nemaruva, varipo pano nhasi. Isu tine midzi yakadzika mukufamba kurwisa monoliths, monocultures, monomaniacs uye mammon.
Nhasi mafambiro arikusangana ari kuenderana neboka rakakura remaonero everuzhinji, uye achitekeshera kune makuru. Isu tinozviona mukukura kunoshamisa kweMoveOn.org, tsigiro yepasi yaHoward Dean, yaDennis Kucinich, mukutya kuri kukura uye kusema Pentagon, White House uye Fox News.
Kunyangwe kutenderera, kunyangwe nekutamba pamanzwiro edu ekuda nyika, kunyangwe paine kushushikana kuri pamutemo pamusoro pehugandanga, ruzhinji rwevanhu vekuAmerica - uye ruzhinji rwakasimba rweDemocrats - vari kubvunza chinangwa cheIraq, kuvimbika kwehutongi, kufa zvisina basa, izvo zvisingatarisirwi. mari, uye chibayiro chezvido zvedu zvepamba paatari yehumambo. Kupokana kwakatoonekwa pakati pemhuri dzemauto uye maGIs munhandare yehondo, vakashatirwa pamusoro pekunyengedza kusinganzwisisike kwehuwandu hwemutumbi kuratidza chitsidzo cheMutungamiriri chekuti basa remauto "rakapera." Kupesana mukati memauto chiratidzo chekuti magumo ave kutanga.
Nekuda kwekuti mafungiro everuzhinji ari kufamba, vamiriri vemutungamiri weDemocratic Party vari kushandura madingindira avo nenzira yakanaka. Gore rapfuura chete, vatungamiriri vebato reDemocratic Party vairaira vamiriri kuti vatsigire hondo yeMutungamiriri, kuti vazvirambe kubva kune chero kuvimbika kusvika kuma60s, kumirira kuti hondo yeIraq ipere pakati pekufara muBaghdad, uye neimwe nzira vakunda mutungamiri wenyika. panyaya dzekuwedzera semishonga yevakwegura. Taura pamusoro pekunze.
Zvino, mukupindura kuratidzira kweveruzhinji uye mibvunzo yakajeka yevaDemocrats vepasi, vese veDemocratic candidates vari kubvunza mutungamiri wenyika paIraq, zvibvumirano zvake zvekutengeserana nemabasa. Funga nezvavo sevanopa mukana kana uchida, asi ini ndinofunga nezvavo sehofisi huru yevatauri inotakura mibvunzo yedu uye madingindira kumamiriyoni epakati peAmerica.
Mumwe nemumwe wedu anogona kusarudza kutsigira mumwe munhu, uye izvo zvinogona kuwedzera kufamba kwedu. Asi ngatisazvirega tichimedzwa nechero mushandirapamwe. Kana vakwikwidzi vakakumbira nguva yedu nemari, ngativakumbireiwo kuti vabatane nesangano redu pakuona muono mutsva wezvingave America.
Sezvo maforamu epasi rose akasimbirira, "Imwe nyika inogoneka," mazwi akambundirwa negurukota rezvekunze reFrance apo hondo yeUS yakarambwa kuUN. Chiratidzo cheimwe nyika chiri kutove pachena mukurwisana kwenzvimbo:
Shanduko yegadziriro yekutengeserana yepasirese ine zviyero zvinogoneka kuchengetedza vashandi ve sweatshop uye masango anonaya mvura, kwete kungoisa mari mumakaseti evhidhiyo uye vanovanza mvura. -Kudzoredzwazve kwe crony capitalism, kubva mukushungurudzwa kwaEnron kusvika paruzhinji mari yesarudzo. -Kuchinja kubva pakuva mutengesi wezvombo anotungamira pasi rose kuenda kukudyara kukuru muzvirongwa zveUN zvekurwisa hurombo. Munguva yeJFK takapedza chikamu chimwe kubva muzana chemari yedu yakawanda mukurwisa hurombo; nhasi i 0.13 muzana, zvishoma kudarika zero. - Kuramba mafuta, makemikari uye zvinoshandiswa zvinosangana kubva kuCheney's task Force kuenda kumapaipi eBolivia, kune kuchengetedza simba uye rinowanikwazve. -Kukurudzira hutongi hwejekerere hunobata vanhu muhutongi hwezvido zvevanhu, sechinhu chakakosha mukutonga.
George Bush anogona kukundwa; kunyange sarudzo dzinozvisimbisa. Asi ndiani anoziva kana Democratic Party inogona kumukunda? Ndiani anoziva kana tichikwanisa kubhuroka misiyano pakati pemaDemocrats, maGreens naRalph Nader? Zvematongerwo enyika kurwira masimba, kwete kunyatsoratidza mafungiro everuzhinji. Asi kutya uye kuvenga zviri kunze uko, kuvaka, uye nekuzvipira kwakakwana muna 2004 tinogona kubvisa gore iri pamusoro peramangwana redu.
Tine mungava kwatiri, kutsika dzedu dzinofambira mberi, uye pamwe zvakanyanya kupasi rose, kudzivirira temu yechipiri yemutungamiri uyu. Nzira yekuvimbisa remangwana redemocracy mune zvematongerwo enyika ndeyekudzivirira izvo zvinofungidzirwa nevanochengetedza seKuuya Kwechipiri. Saka ini ndinobvunza fungidziro yako yakarurama pamusoro pezvematongerwo enyika esarudzo, isa parutivi zvaunosungirira kune chero mumiriri, uye ona izvi sekusangana kwakasimba kwemazhinji mishandirapamwe kukunda George Bush. Iyo yose inogona kuva yakakura kudarika nhamba yezvikamu zvayo.
Kana tikasabudirira, isu tichave tasvitsa mamirioni evamwe vanhu nemharidzo yedu uye network, uye isu tichada iyo tsigiro yeruzhinji mumakore anotevera. Kunyange kana nhamburiko dzedu dzakanakisisa dzikaperevedza, rangarira kupfuura kunyange avo vane simba vanogona kumanikidzirwa kuita mibvumirano mikuru.
SDS yakatsva uye McGovern akarasika, asi Nixon aifanira kudzoka kubva kuVietnam ndokuziva China. Kwakauya vhoti yevane makore gumi nemasere, kuguma kwechinyorwa, kusikwa kweEPA, OSHA, Mhepo Yakachena uye Mvura zviito.
Bush akahwina chigaro chemutungamiri wenyika achibatsirwa neDare repamusorosoro, asi Dare rimwe chetero rakapa mutongo wakanangana nengochani dzechingochani dzichipesana nemitemo yengochani mushure memakore makumi mana ekurwisana kwakatanga nemhirizhonga mumusha weGreenwich. Sarudzo dzeDare dzichangoburwa pambanje yekurapa dzinoratidza simba rinotyisa remaonero everuzhinji pakufamba.
Zvinosvika pakuziva chiremera muzvinhu zvose. Chiremerera chine kukosha kwemukati, hachigone kutyorwa pasina kupokana. Hachigoni kukurirwa. Kwose kune upenyu, chiremera chinodzivisa kudzipwa uye kukanganwa. Ndiyo nyika yatinoda. Ndiyo nyika inoda. Kwete umambo, kwete kunyange nyika ine masimba makuru, asi nyika yegutsaruzhinji yakavakirwa pachiremera.
[Tom Hayden murwiri anofambira mberi, munyori uye aimbova mukuru weCalifornia akasarudzwa. Bhuku rake razvino ndere "Irish mukati."]
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