Zuva reChirangaridzo ndiro, by mutemo wehurumende, zuva rokunyengeterera rugare rusingaperi. Asi zvinoita here kuti tinyengeterere rugare nekutendeka apo nyika yedu iri kure uye iri nhamba yekutanga munyika muhondo, kuvapo kwemauto, kushandisa mari muchiuto uye kutengeswa kwezvombo pasi rose?
Hondo Yechigarire
Kubva 1980 iyo US yakaita zvechisimba mauto munyika gumi nemana munyika yeIslam chete, maererano netsvagiridzo yakabudiswa mu Washington Post: Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-ikozvino), Somalia (1992-1993-, 2007) ikozvino), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), Afghanistan (1998, 2001-ikozvino), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-ikozvino), Pakistan (2004-ikozvino) uye zvino Siria. Munharaunda iyi, mauto eU.S nechisimba Grenada (1983) nePanama (1989) uye yakadzika mauto e20,000 muHaiti (1994).
US Global War Machine
IUS ine mamiriyoni 1.3 vanhu muchiuto, uye imwe miriyoni imwe inoshanda munzvimbo dzemauto. IUS ine zvigaro zvemauto zve1 munyika dze700 pasirese, ichiendesa pamusoro pe63 mauto eUS ikoko. Bazi reDefence rinotungamira zviri pamutemo pamusoro pe555,000 zvivakwa pazvivakwa 4,400 mukati meU.S., uye pamusoro pezvivakwa zvinodarika 700 pasi rose. IU.S pamusoro pe1,500 hunyanzvi hwehondo dzenyukireya; pamusoro 13,000 mauto ndege; dzakawanda dzengarava dzepasi pemvura, dzakawanda dzacho dzine zvombo zvenyukireya; uye 88 zvikepe zvehondo zvinoparadza.
Global Harm
Nearly 7,000 Vanhu vemauto eUS vakafa nekuda kwehondo dzakaitwa neUS kubva 9/11. Zvakangokoshawo, muIraq vanopfuura 216,000 varwi, vazhinji vacho vari vanhuwo zvavo, vakafa kubva pakapambwa 2003. Hapana kana akaverenga kufa kwevanhu muAfghanistan kwemakore mashanu ekutanga ehondo yedu ikoko. Kurwiswa kwedu nedrone kwauraya mazana evana nevakuru vasiri varwi muPakistan, uye mamwe akawanda muYemen.
Mutungamiriri weNyika muKushandisa Hondo
Mari yemauto eUS iri dzinenge dzakangofanana nedzosero yekushandiswa kwechiuto nenyika sere huru dzinotevera dzabatanidzwa - ndiko kuti, kupfuura China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, France, UK, India neGermany zvakabatanidzwa.
Kubva 9/11 kushandiswa kweUS pamauto edu kunodhura kupfuura $3 trillion. Kurwa kwakananga uye kuvakazve mutengo wehondo muAfghanistan neIraq sezvo 9/11 yakadhura zviri pamutemo vateresi veUS $ 1.6 trillion madhora, maererano neCongressal Research Service. Mamwe matriiriyoni akashandiswa mukukura bhajeti yePentagon, uye yezvino neramangwana yakawedzera hutano nekuremara mabhenefiti kune veterans.
Mauto eU.S. anotora 55 muzana yemari yedu yenyika discretionary, uye kushandisa mari kune veterans mabhenefiti ndeimwe 6 muzana. Sezvo 9/11 kushandiswa kwemauto kwakawedzera ne50 muzana, nepo kushandisa kune imwe discretionary mari yemumba yakawedzera ne13 muzana, maererano neNational Priorities Project.
Corporate War Profiteers
Nematiririyoni aya ari kupedzerwa muhondo, kune mapoka makuru emakambani ari kuita purofiti.
Nhamba-imwe yehondo mubatsiri ndiLockheed Martin, maererano ne USA Today, nokutengeswa kwezvombo kwegore negore kwemadhora mabhiriyoni 36. Hazvishamisi, Lockheed Martin inoshandisa mari inopfuura mamiriyoni gumi nemana emadhora pagore pakukurudzira vanhu vanoita zvisarudzo pamusoro pemari inoshandiswa pazvombo uye kuti zvombo zvipi zvichatengwa. Mukuru wavo anobhadharwa mari inopfuura $15 miriyoni, maererano neyavo 2015 shareholder report, uye pabhodhi ravo pana James Ellis, aimbove admiral uye mukuru mukuru weU.S. Strategic Air Command, anopihwa mari inodarika $277,000 yebasa renguva isina kuzara, naJames Loy, aimbove Mutevedzeri weMunyori weHomeland Security, anowana mari inodarika mazana maviri nemakumi matanhatu ezviuru zvemadhora. basa rake renguva isina kuzara. Lockheed inogamuchira zvibvumirano zvakakura zvehurumende, zvinosvika, ne imwe calculation, kusvika pamadhora mazana maviri nemakumi matanhatu kubva kumhuri yega yega inobhadhara mutero muU.S. Vane kodzero zvekuti 2014 ongororo yakakosha neU.S. Department of Energy akawana kuti Lockheed akashandisa mari yemutero kutsvaga mari yevateresi.
Nhamba-mbiri hondo profiteer ndeye Boeing, nokutengeswa kwezvombo kwegore negore kwemadhora mabhiriyoni makumi matatu nerimwe. Boeings inoshandisa mari inopfuura mamiriyoni gumi nemana emadhora pagore pakukurudzira. Mamwe makambani gumi epamusoro ari kuwana purofiti kubva kuhondo inosanganisira BAE Systems, General Dynamics, Raytheon, EADS, Finmeccanica, L-3 Communications, uye United Technologies. Unogona kuronda mipiro yavo yemakambani kunhengo dzeCongress, kunyanya vezvematongerwo enyika vari paAppropriations Committees yeImba neSeneti, pa Vhura Zvinyorwa.
apo mari zhinji yekunyengerera yaenda kumaRepublicans, vatengesi vese vezvombo vanohaya vatsigiri vanogona kupesvedzera maDemocrats nemaRepublicans, maererano neCentre for Responsive Politics.
Uye ava vabatsiri vehondo havangotengese kuhurumende yeUS. IU.S. yakatengeswa zvombo zvinopfuura mabhiriyoni 26 emadhora kune dzimwe nyika uye anga ari nhamba yekutanga kwenguva yakareba, kunyange munguva pfupi yapfuura iyo zita rave richidzokera shure neRussia.
Zvaunofanira Kuita
Musi waKubvumbi 4, 1967, mukero yake yakakurumbira yeChechi yeRiverside, Martin Luther King Jr. akati hurumende yeU.S. ndiyo yainyanya kuchenesa mhirizhonga pasi rose. Mukupindura, akadana shanduko yechokwadi yetsika. Chimurenga ichi chinotidaidza kuti tibvunze kururamisira uye kururamisira kwezvizhinji zvemitemo yedu yakapfuura neyazvino, kusanganisira hondo uye musiyano wehupfumi nehurombo munyika yedu nepasirese.
Paakasiya chigaro, aimbova Mutungamiriri weU.S. uye General Dwight Eisenhower akanyeverwa vagari venzvimbo iri kukura yemauto-maindasitiri. Akaona pesvedzero yomutowo wehondo ndokukurudzira vagari vose kungwarira ndokumanikidza โmuchina mukuru weindasitiri nehondo wedziviriroโ kuita maererano nedemocracy nezvishuvo zvavanhu zvorugare.
Tinofanira kuitei? Chekutanga, tinofanira kudzidza chokwadi uye kutarisana nechokwadi chekuti US ndiyo mugadziri mukuru wehondo munyika. Chechipiri, tinofanira kuzvipira uye kuronga vamwe kune shanduko yechokwadi yehutsika uye kutarisana nemakambani nevematongerwo enyika vanoramba vachisundira nyika yedu muhondo uye nekupisa bhajeti remauto nemhepo inopisa yekutya zvachose. Chechitatu, tinofanira kubvuma izvo nyika yedu yanga ichiita zvisirizvo, uye tinofanira kugadzirisa mhirizhonga iyo US yakaitika munyika dzese pasirese. Chechina, tinofanira kubvisa mauto edu kubva kune dzimwe nyika dzose, kuderedza zvakanyanya mauto edu, kubvisa zvombo zvedu zvenyukireya, uye kunamatira zvechokwadi kudzivirira nyika yedu. Chechishanu, tinofanira kushandira runyararo, mhinduro dzega dzega dzekunetsana pano pamba nepasirese. Chete kana isu tichishandira zuva iro US isisiri mutungamiri wenyika muhondo tichava nekodzero yekunamatira rugare paZuva reChirangaridzo.
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