I-Karl Rove inomthetho olula, bathi: Uma usalela emuva, hlasela izimbangi zakho endaweni yazo eqine kakhulu. Okhethweni oluzayo, iphuzu eliqine kakhulu lamaDemocrats kufanele ngokusobala kube yi-Iraq. Njengoba ukukhanya kugxile phakade empini eyinhlekelele lapho, u-Rove kufanele athole ukuthi angaluphendula kanjani uhlaka lwakhe olukhazimulayo ukuze kuzuze iqembu lakhe.
Ngakho-ke iboleka ikhasi encwadini yezindaba yase-Iran yasendulo futhi ilingisa uScheherazade, intombi eyayinomgomo womyeni wayo othi โabashade, balale, futhi bababulale ekuseni.โ U-Rove utshela abamele ukhetho lweRiphabhulikhi ukuthi balandele umthetho ka-Scheherazade: Uma inqubomgomo ikulahla, qala ukuxoxa izindaba - izindaba ezinhle kakhulu, ezibambekayo, eziphothayo kangangokuthi inkosi (noma, kulokhu, isakhamuzi saseMelika esibusa izwe lethu ngokwenkoleloze) sikhohlwe konke mayelana. inqubomgomo ebulalayo.
Izindaba ze-GOP ziyefana nalezo abelungu abebexoxelana ngazo kusukela beqala ukubeka unyawo ogwini lwaseNyakatho Melika: Uma ufuna ukuphepha, hamba uye emngceleni uqedele amaNdiya. Njengesikhulu sangaphambili soMnyango Wezwe John Brown uphawule, izimpi zethu zaseNdiya azikapheli.
Manje uRove noMongameli wakhe bazama ukuthengisa impi yase-Iraq njengengxabano yomngcele, futhi. Bafuna ukuthi sibone amasosha ase-US njengamasosha abeka phansi โama-Injuns.โ Noma okungcono, njengamaphayona adala izigodi ezincane zempucuko (e-Iraq zibizwa ngokuthi Green Zones) phakathi kwehlane elikhulu eligcwele izixhwanguxhwangu. Yeka amandla, isibindi esingakanani esidingekayo ukuze usinde. Kodwa banomsebenzi okufanele bawenze: Kumelwe bafundise izixhwanguxhwangu indlela yokukhululeka. Futhi ngaphezu kwakho konke, njengokhokho babo abaphayona, kumelwe babe nesibindi sokuyinamathela kuze kube yilapho umsebenzi usuphelile.
Sazi kanjani ukuthi amasosha ethu e-Iraq anezisusa ezinhle kangaka? Impendulo ilula - bangamaMelika, ngokwencazelo amaqhawe, abafana abalungile. Ngaso sonke isikhathi lapho bebulala umuntu omubi njengo-Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, baphinde bafakazele ukuthi bangobani abantu abalungile. (Kwakamuva Ukuvota kweWashington Post-ABC, i-68% yabantu baseMelika yathi impi yase-US ngokumelene ne-Iraq "isize ukuthuthukisa izimpilo zabantu base-Iraq.")
Ngokwemvelo banethemba, ngolunye usuku, ukuthi bayokwazi ukuya ekhaya kwabathandekayo babo futhi baphile ukuphila okunokuthula abakulangazelelayo. Kodwa akubona abashiya phansi njengalezo zikhali zesikole (zamaDemocratic) emuva eMpumalanga emahholo eCongress. Bangabahambi bangempela, abanesifiso nokuzimisela ukuhlala behamba. Ngeke besatshwe ukuhlupheka noma ukuchithwa kwegazi; kwesinye isikhathi โ masikhulume iqiniso โ kuthatha ukuchitheka kwegazi ukuze impilo ibe ngcono.
I-Republican Fairy Tales of Heroic Masculinity
U-George W. Bush usevele uphumile emkhankasweni wekhongolose eqhulula le ntambo endala. Ku-fundraiser ye oyedwa omele iSenethi wakubeka ngobulula bayo obumangalisayo: โUkhona uSomandla; isipho esikhulu sikaSomandla yinkululeko yawo wonke amadoda, owesifazane, kanye nomntwana. โฆ Abantu baseMelika balindele ukuthi uhulumeni abavikele. Kungumsebenzi wethu obaluleke kakhulu. โฆ I-Iraq manje isiyindawo emaphakathi, futhi sinesu lokuphumelela. โฆ Kuneqembu eqenjini eliphikisayo elizimisele ukuhlehla ngaphambi kokuthi umsebenzi wenziwe. Bazimisele ukuphephezelisa ifulegi elimhlophe lokuzinikela.โ
Futhi lapho, bangane bami, ukukhetha kwangempela esikunikezwa yi-rhetoric kaRovian: amaDemocrat anobugwala abuthakathaka ngokumelene namaRiphabhlikhi aqinile, kungakhathaliseki ukuthi yiziphi izindleko, ngoba - ngaphezu kwakho konke - angamadoda angempela.
Isifiso sokuveza ubudoda siwumgogodla wendaba. Kungase kube yilokho okwasenza sangena e-Iraq kwasekuqaleni. Sekungamashumi amane eminyaka manje, ama-neoconservatives akhala ngokwenziwa kwabantu besifazane kweMelika. Isizwe lapho abesifazane bengagqoka amasudi futhi amadoda angaba nezinwele ezinde ezigelezayo, ngisho nasezindlini zezinkampani, kuyabahlanyisa. Kusukela ngeminyaka yawo-1970s baye baphakamisa izinqubomgomo zokulwa, izinkulumo ezixakile, kanye nesabelomali esikhulu sezempi njengendlela kuphela yokumisa abakhululekile ekubekeni ukungabi nangqondo esizweni.
Ama-neocons afuna ukubuyisela isizwe esithambile, esivilaphayo, esithengisa ezitolo ezinkulu, โabantu abathanda ukuhlanganaโ ngokuziphatha babuyele โempilweni enzimaโ eyashunyayelwa nguTheodore Roosevelt noRonald Reagan. Lesi yisizathu esikhulu sokuthi basebenze kanzima kangaka ukuthumela โabafana bethuโ (kanye โnamantombazaneโ) ezinkundleni zempi zase-Iraq. UKarl Rove ngokwakhe kungenzeka angabi yi-neocon, kodwa ukubheja ukuthi abavoti bazomangazwa yizinganekwane zesitayela sikaJohn-Wayne "zamadoda angempela" alwa nobubi emngceleni - okungenani abantu baseMelika abanele ukugwema isigwebo sentambo abavoti abangase sho ngeqembu elisilethele inhlekelele e-Iraq.
Izinganekwane zasemngceleni zingase zizwakale zingenangqondo kwabanye, kodwa ngeke zihambe. Cishe uyabazi ngekhanda. Eqinisweni, ngaphandle komcabango wesibili, cishe uzihlanganise ngokunembile nangokungazi ukuze wakhe indaba eyodwa ehlangene, wenzela umsebenzi wamaRiphabhulikhi. Abaningi bomakhelwane bakho baseMelika basayithatha leyo ndaba enhle njengenganekwane ezanyiwe neyiqiniso mayelana nezimfanelo ezinhle ezenza iMelika yaba yinhle.
Ingabe abesifazane kanye namadoda bazowela kulezi zinganekwane zobudoda obuyiqhawe? Lisekhona igebe lobulili kwipolitiki yaseMelika. Kodwa kusukela ngo-9/11 kuye kwancipha kakhulu. Inqwaba yabavoti besifazane manje ikhetha umuntu ozongenela ukhetho obonisa kangcono โizimfanelo zomuntu,โ ngoba empeleni akuphathelene nobulili noma ubulili. Kumayelana nokuchema kwamasiko okwakudala okuthi abesilisa benza umehluko ocacile phakathi kokuhle nokubi bese benza noma yini edingekayo ukuze bacekele phansi ububi, kuyilapho abesifazane benikeza ukuqonda okunenhliziyo ethambile okuyingozi kuwo wonke umuntu.
Lokhu kusibeka emnyombweni wesu le-Scheherazade. Idlala ngokungavikeleki kwabantu baseMelika abanomuzwa wokuthi izimpilo zabo azisalawuleki. UKarl Rove uyazi ukuthi (njengoba uGary Bauer, isazi sezombangazwe esinelungelo lenkolo, ake akubeka) โUJoe Six-Pack akaqondi ukuthi kungani umhlaba nesiko lakhe kushintsha nokuthi kungani engenalo izwi ngakho.โ Ngakho-ke uRove uhlala esungula izindaba ezilula ezimelene nobubi ukuze abantu bakhe bazixoxele. Uzama ukuguqula lonke ukhetho lube idrama yokuziphatha, umncintiswano wokucaca kokuziphatha kweRiphabhulikhi uphikisana nokudideka kokuziphatha kweDemocratic Alliance.
URove ufuna ukuthi wonke amavoti e-Republican abe isitatimende esingokomfanekiso: Angilona nje uphaphe olupheshulwa yilokho uGeorge W. Bush akubize ngokuthi โimimoya yoshintsho.โ Ivoti lami lingigxilisa ku-Republican Party - eliqinile njengedwala, eliqinile njengephayona eliqinile, elizimisele futhi elikwazi ukuletha ugwadule olunonya lwale planethi yamaphekula ngaphansi kokulawulwa okuqinile kweMelika.
Isu le-Scheherazade liwumkhonyovu omkhulu, owakhelwe embonweni wokuthi izinganekwane ezilula zokuziphatha zingasenza sizizwe silondekile, kungakhathaliseki ukuthi empeleni kwenzekani laphaya emhlabeni. Nakuba ingasifezi neze isithembiso sayo, abantu baseMelika abaningi kakhulu iyaqhubeka nokuwela kuso. Kungani? Nansi eminye imikhondo evela kwizazi ezilandelela emuva ezimpandeni zayo ebuKristwini baseMelika. UCatherine Albanese waseYunivesithi yaseCalifornia eSanta Barbara uyabhala: โUkuziphatha okuyaliwe kwemithetho yezangaphandle, ngokwezimiso zokuziphatha eziguquguqukayo, kuyosusa ububi futhi kumise izivikelo ezivikela ukuphila kobuKristu. Ngakho-ke, ukubamba ama-conservative kusho ukuphatha ububi. โ Kodwa ukuphatha ububi kuwumsebenzi wempilo yonke. Kunokuba ekudambise ukukhathazeka, nakanjani kuzodala okunye kwakho - futhi, u-Rove ngokucabanga ukuthi unethemba, abantu abaningi abanxanela ukuqina kobudoda okufanele kudambise ukukhathazeka.
UJohn F. Wilson kaPrinceton uyachaza ukuthi kungani. Ukuthatheka ngokulawula ububi kuvela โekukhathazekeni, ngokuvamile okuyihaba, ukuze ukwazi ukulawula lezo zici zokuphila okuhlangenwe nakho njengokungaqiniseki.โ Kusukela kumaPuritan kuze kube manje, abantu abazimisele ukulawula ukuphila kwabo baye bahlushwa ukwesaba okungenakugwenywa kokuthi bangase balahlekelwe yikona kanye lokho kulawula. Lapho bethola ukuthi abakwazi ukuzilawula bona noma ukuphila kwabo noma indawo ebazungezile ngokuphelele ngendlela abangafisa ngayo ngobuqotho, bazizwa beyizehluleki; futhi, isi-Albanese siyanezela, uma kungenzeka bacabange ukuthi bayingxenye yabantu bakaNkulunkulu abakhethiwe, bangase futhi bazizwe benesibopho esinamandla sokuphila ngokuvumelana nokulindela kukaNkulunkulu ukuzithiba okuphelele. Ngakho bagcina bengazizwa njengezehluleki kodwa njengezoni ezinecala.
Ubani ofuna ukuthwala umthwalo osinda kangaka? โUkuvuma ukuthi okuningi kwakungalungile kungase kubeke engozini inkolelo yeMelika esimweni sayo njengesizwe esikhethiwe,โ kusho u-Albanese. "Abantu baseMelika abakwazanga ukuvuma imithombo ejulile yecala labo ngaphandle kokucekela phansi umuzwa wabo wokuthi bangobani." Ngakho, esikhundleni salokho, bahamba (futhi basahamba) befuna abanye abantu ukuba babalawule futhi babasole ngezinkinga zabo. Amakhandidethi ethu akamuva, vele, amaphekula.
Ngaphambi kokuthi wazi, ngamazwi kaWilson, "unezinhlaka eziguquguqukayo zokwakheka komhlaba: okuhle nokubi, thina ngokumelene nabo. I-puritan American yaseMelika ngenkathi iqondiswa ngokuqinile ijwayele ukungazigxeki futhi igxeke abanye ngokweqile ... [Lokhu] kuphakamisa iphethini eyisisekelo yobudlelwane emhlabeni futhi kuqinisa leyo phethini." Ngamanye amazwi, lapho amasosha ase-US ezama ukuphoqa i-oda elenziwe eMelika e-Iraq (noma enye indawo), lisivumela ukuthi sigweme ukubhekana nezinkinga eziningi, ububi, nokungavikeleki lapha ekhaya.
I-Scheherazade Fantasies kanye namaReality Frontier
Lokhu ngokuqinisekile kuyimizwa ejulile, eyinkimbinkimbi, futhi engokoqobo. Umkhonyovu kaRove uyasebenza ngoba uhlaka lwe-bipolar lubonakala lukholeka kakhulu. Kuhlala kunokungavikeleki kwaseMelika okwengeziwe ukondla isifiso sethu "sokuhlala isifundo" e-Iraq. Ukuba khona kwe-US lapho kudala โabashokobeziโ abaningi base-Iraq, abenza yonke le ndaba ibukeke ikholeka kakhulu ezindabeni zakusihlwa. Umjikelezo awupheli, ngoba indaba endala yasemngceleni okufanele idambise ukungavikeleki kwethu empeleni iyayibhebhethekisa.
Impela kwenza umphakathi ungazethembi ngempi. Kuleyo nhlolovo yeWashington Post-ABC, bangama-37% kuphela abantu baseMelika abagunyaze indlela uBush ayisingatha ngayo. Ngakho-ke isu likaRove lingase libe isenzo sokuphelelwa ithemba. Kepha futhi kuyiqhinga elikhaliphile - abanye bangalibiza ngobuhlakani - ngoba lidlala ngokwesaba okukhulayo kokuthi i-Iraq imele okuthile okungahambi kahle endaweni yonke yaseMelika. Ixhumanisa iqembu leDemocratic Alliance nesiphithiphithi sase-Iraq ngokushintsha kokubili kube yizimpawu zobuthakathaka baseMelika, ihlane, nokungazinzi.
I-Republican Scheherazades ithi, empeleni, "Izinto zingase zibonakale zingalawuleki manje, kodwa zizoba zimbi kakhulu ngaphansi kwamaDemocrats, angakwazi ngokuphelele ukugcina izimpilo zethu ezintekenteke zivikelekile emoyeni woshintsho olunodlame." Batshela izinganekwane zakudala ukuthi zitshale imbewu yokungabaza, ukuthumela umvoti edokodweni ebuza umbuzo owodwa omkhulu: โNgisho noma amaRiphabhulikhi kusobala ukuthi awanawo amandla okulawula lo mhlaba oyingozi, ngiyalokotha yini ukuthatha ithuba kulabo ababuthaka- Ngabe ama-Democrats afuna ukuphenduka?" Uma ivoti elimelene namaDemocrat liba yivoti eliphikisana noshintsho olungalawuleki - khona-ke amaRiphabhulikhi kungenzeka abe nolunye ukhetho emaphaketheni awo.
Nakuba indaba yasemngceleni kanye nenzalo yayo esontekile inezimpande ezijulile ebuKristwini obuhlanzekile, ungagcini nje ukusola amaKristu ngakho. Kudala lezi zinganekwane zaba impahla evamile yesiko lezwe laseMelika, futhi. Futhi ungagcini nje ukusola amaRiphabhulikhi. Lezi yizindaba ezifanayo eziholele amaDemocrats ukusuka ku-Woodrow Wilson kuya ku-Bill Clinton ezindaweni ezifana ne-The Somme, i-My Lai, ne-Mogadishu, ethembisa izimpi zokuqeda impi noma ubukhomanisi noma ubuphekula.
Kodwa selokhu uRonald Reagan ehlula uJimmy Carter, amaRiphabhulikhi akwazile ukwenza izindaba ezindala zibe ezazo eziyimfihlo. Uma amaDemocrat ezama ukubatshela, abasazwakali bekholeka. Njengamanje, empeleni, akukho lutho okushiwo iningi lamaDemocrats ajwayelekile okubonakala kunokukholeka - noma isu le-Scheherazade ngeke libe nalo ithuba lokusindisa impilo yezepolitiki yamaRiphabhulikhi ngoNovemba. Pho yini okumele yenziwe yiDemocrat?
I-Dem ingaqala ngokubona ubungozi besu le-Scheherazade. Okokuqala, indaba kaRove incike ezithombeni ezikholekayo zamandla aseMelika. Uma amabutho ase-US e-Iraq eqhubeka nokubhekana nezinhlekelele phakathi kwamanje nosuku lokhetho, abavoti abangena edokodweni bazoba nesikhathi esinzima sokubambelela emfanekisweni wamaRiphabhulikhi njengabasindisi babo abangamadoda.
Kuphinde kuncike ekutheni abavoti bavumele izinganekwane, hhayi ukucabanga okunengqondo ngezinqubomgomo, kunqume ivoti labo. AmaDemocrat akufanele acabange ukuthi iningi labavoti lizoba yizisulu zezinganekwane ezikhangayo kodwa ezingenangqondo, njengoba kwenza inkosi yaseScheherazade. Bangatshela abavoti - kanye nabo - indaba engasemngceleni mayelana nobunye ubuhle bendabuko baseMelika: isibindi sokwethemba ukuthi abantu abavamile bazosebenzisa ingqondo eqinile ukuze bahlukanise iqiniso nenganekwane.
Izindaba ezindala zisitshela ukuthi amavulandlela angempela, hhayi lawo ahlala isikhathi eside kangaka kumabhayisikobho wethu, kwadingeka abhekane nempilo ngokwethembeka. Babengenakukwazi โukuhlala enkambweniโ ngenxa nje yokulondoloza ubuso. Futhi babengenakukwazi ukudlala ezombangazwe ngezindaba zokuphila noma ukufa. Lapho izinto zingahambi kahle, baba nesibindi sokukuvuma futhi basebenzise ubuhlakani bakudala baseMelika ukuze balungise izinto. Babengabalandeli bentando yeningi beqiniso, belindele ukuthi wonke umuntu athwale isabelo sakhe futhi anikeze omakhelwane babo ilungelo lokubeka eyabo imibono. Abazange babize ukungezwani ngokuthi โukungathembeki.โ Babazi ukuthi ngisho nensizwa noma insizwa ethobekile ingase ibe nombono ongcono kakhulu wokulungisa izinto.
Ngaphandle komngcele, amaphayona ayedinga lolo hlobo lwesibindi nokuhlakanipha ukuze aqiniseke ukuthi wona nemikhaya yawo ayasinda. Kungase kube yilokho kanye amaDemocrat akudingayo ukuze asinde, futhi - ukuthemba abantu abavamile, ngisho nama-Iraqis, ukuthola izixazululo ezisebenzayo ezinkingeni ezingokoqobo. Uma amakhandidethi eRiphabhulikhi efuna ukudlala i-Scheherazade, kufanele abone ukuthi ama-Democrats angase abe nendaba ethembekile, ephoqelelayo okufanele ayixoxe. Futhi thina, abavoti, siyinkosi. Sithola ukunquma ukuthi ubani osala ephila ngovivi ngoNovemba 8 nokuthi ubani ogcina eseyisidumbu sepolitiki.
U-Ira Chernus unguSolwazi Wezifundo Zenkolo eNyuvesi yaseColorado eBoulder kanye nombhali wencwadi ezayo. Izilo Zokubhubhisa: I-Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin. Angathintwa ku [i-imeyili ivikelwe].
[Le ndatshana yaqala ukuvela ngo I-Tomdispatch.com, ibhulogi yewebhu ye-Nation Institute, enikeza ukugeleza okuqhubekayo kweminye imithombo, izindaba, kanye nemibono evela ku-Tom Engelhardt, umhleli wesikhathi eside ekushicilelweni, Umsunguli we- i-American Empire Project nombhali Ukuphela KweMasiko Okunqoba, umlando wokunqoba kweMelika eMpini Yomshoshaphansi, kanye nowenoveli, Izinsuku Zokugcina Zokushicilela.]
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