Abantu abaningi (ikakhulukazi amaRiphabhulikhi) bathi (ikakhulukazi kumaDemocrats) ukuthi akulungile “ukwenza ipolitiki” ngempi yase-Iraq. Kodwa ukwenza impi yepolitiki yikho kanye okufanele kwenzeke manje. Ukunemba, labo abaphikisana nempi kufanele bafake ipolitiki ngayo njengoba abaphathi bakaBush sebevele benza. Ezombusazwe akuwona nje umsebenzi wosopolitiki; kuyindlela eyinhloko yabantu yentando yeningi yokwenza izinqumo eziyisisekelo ngekusasa layo. Izinqumo ezinjalo - ukuthi inqubomgomo yezwe yangaphandle izoba ngombuso noma intando yeningi, ukuthi uhlelo lomthethosisekelo luzohlala lunjalo, noma ngabe iMelika imele noma iphikisana nokuhlukunyezwa - manje ziphambi kwabavoti. Kunoma yikuphi, kubonakala kucacile enkulumweni kaMongameli e-Army War College ngoMeyi 24 ukuthi akukho shintsho oluyisisekelo kunqubomgomo yase-Iraq yase-US cishe ngaphambi kukaNovemba 2. Ngakolunye uhlangothi, yonke isiqondiso sezombangazwe zaseMelika sisengozini ngalolo suku. . Ukuveza lokhu akusho ukungabi nandaba nenhlalakahle yabantu base-Iraq. Ukuma kwekusasa labo nakho kuzoncika kakhulu emphumeleni wokhetho.
Ukuqala kwamaqiniso ukuvuma ukuthi isinyathelo esilandelayo senqubomgomo kaMongameli - isithembiso sakhe "sobukhosi obugcwele" e-Iraq - siwumsebenzi wobuhle. Indaba yempi kube ngesinye sezimangalo ezisemthethweni noma izibikezelo eziqedwa lapho uthintana neqiniso. Ake sibone ukuthi ngingagijima ngokushesha kangakanani ohlwini olujwayeleke kakhulu: Izikhali zembubhiso enkulu e-Iraq kaSaddam? Hhayi lapho. Ubudlelwano base-Iraq ne-Al Qaeda ngaphambi kwempi? Akukho. Intando yeningi e-Iraq? Ucwile egazini e-Abu Ghraib. Ukuguqulwa kwayo yonke iMpumalanga Ephakathi? Kokubi kakhulu.
Isithembiso "sobukhosi obugcwele" singesilandelayo kulolu chungechunge (lufika ngesikhathi ukuze kuqalwe kabusha i-litany). Kodwa ngendlela eyodwa kwehlukile. Kwadingeka ulinde izinyanga ezithile ukuze izinguzunga zangaphambili ziphele, kodwa lesi sifile ngaphambi kokufika. Umusho othuthuke emazinyweni okwamukelwa okuningi ngabaphathi uqobo, okwenze kwaziwa ukuthi “umbusi” omusha ngeke: abe negunya phezu kwamabutho aseMelika noma awawo; ukwazi ukuphasisa umthetho; lawula eyayo imithombo yezindaba; ukuthatha izinqumo ngomnotho wezwe. Ngeke futhi ilijabulele igunya “lomthethosisekelo wesikhashana” osanda kuthenjiswa uBush kodwa manje usukhohliwe. Ngokungangabazeki, leli qembu elisha lizoba negunya elincane ngisho “nomkhandlu olawulayo” okhona ongenamandla. “Ukuhoxiswa kwamandla” kungase kube incazelo engcono kunokuthi “ukudluliselwa kwamandla” kwalokho okuzokwenzeka - ngaphandle kokuthi umkhandlu ophethe wawungenawo amandla angempela kwasekuqaleni. Mayelana nokhetho oluthenjiswe ngoJanuwari, lokhu kuzoba nokungaqiniseki, uma ukhetho lwase-US ngoNovemba seluphelile, njengoba kwavela umthethosisekelo wesikhashana.
Okusengozini ngoJuni 30 akuhlangene nhlobo nanoma yikuphi okungokoqobo e-Iraq. Kuzo zonke izici ezibalulekile, inqubomgomo yaseMelika izohlala ifana. I-Coalition Provisional Authority izoqanjwa kabusha ngokuthi “inxusa.” (UMongameli uthe, “Ihhovisi lenxusa lethu e-Baghdad lizoba nenjongo efanayo neyanoma iyiphi enye inxusa laseMelika.” Lokhu kuyiqiniso uma isiqhathaniso singase sithi, Inxusa laseMelika eChile ngo-1971.) Abanye abayi-138,000 - noma ngaphezulu - amasosha bahlale ezweni, besebenzisa, ngamagama asabekayo kaMongameli, “amandla okulinganisa noma amandla amakhulu.” Ugesi, amanzi namafutha kuzoma futhi kuqale njengenjwayelo. Impi izoqhubeka. AmaKurds, amaShiites kanye namaSunni bazojokhile amandla. Ijele lase-Abu Ghraib lizobhidlizwa, kodwa “ijele lesimanjemanje elivikeleke kakhulu” - isipho sakamuva saseMelika sentando yeningi yase-Iraqi - lizothatha indawo yalo (njengokungathi ibhilidi, hhayi abantu abakulo, bebehlukumeza iziboshwa zase-Iraq.)
Izinguquko ezizokwenzeka zonke zisesimeni sokubukeka. Kepha azikho, ngenxa yaleso sizathu, azibalulekile, ngoba njengoba i-White House yazi kahle, ukubonakala okungahle kunqume ukhetho lwangoNovemba. Iqhinga lokuphatha ukudala, isikhathi esiyizinyanga ezine, inkohliso yokuthi inqubomgomo yaseMelika iyasebenza. Kulo mzamo, kunezindawo okungenani ezine ezihlukene. Enye iNhlangano Yezizwe. Ngokweqile, indoda yakhona uLakhdar Brahimi ukhetha uhulumeni olandelayo wezwe. Eqinisweni, usephenduke umuntu obalulekile, nokho ngokungenhloso, emzamweni wokhetho kaGeorge W. Bush. Manje i-United States neBrithani sebebeke phambi koMkhandlu Wezokuphepha uhlaka lwesinqumo olumema i-UN ukuthi ibusise uhlelo olusha lwase-Iraq. I-UN isengozini yokudala i-aura yokuba semthethweni kanye nokulawula kwamazwe ngamazwe lapho kungekho khona. Uhlaka luvumela uMkhandlu Wezokuphepha ukuthi "ubuyekeze" - hhayi "ukuvuselela" - ukuba khona kwamasosha aseMelika namanye angaphandle ngemuva konyaka. Okusho ukuthi, i-United States, ephethe i-veto emkhandlwini, ingagcina amasosha ayo e-Iraq isikhathi eside njengoba ifuna.
Icala lesibili ubuholi bezepolitiki e-Iraq, obungaphansi kwengcindezi enkulu ngabaphathi ukuthi badlale indima yabo. Okwenzeka kwabahlubukayo kusanda kuvezwa impatho yalowo owayeyintandokazi yePentagon yase-Iraq, u-Ahmad Chalabi, owenza iphutha lokuphikisa lo msebenzi, wathi, "ubukhosi abunikezwe, buyathathwa." Ngesihluku esiwuphawu lwalesi senzo sokuphatha kunoma yibaphi abaphikisi, ibutho lase-Iraq elaliphelezelwa abantu baseMelika laphanga ihhovisi lakhe nomuzi wakhe, lagqekeza ifenisha laphihliza nezithombe zomndeni.
Ingaphambili lesithathu yimithombo yezindaba yaseMelika. Amalungu alo kufanele aphaphamele iqiniso lokuthi ngaso sonke isikhathi lapho esebenzisa imishwana efana nokuthi “ukunikeza ubukhosi” noma “inguquko embusweni wentando yeningi” adukisa umphakathi njengoba nje abaningi benza lapho bezamukela ngokusobala izimangalo zabaphathi zikaSaddam Hussein. izikhali zokucekela phansi.
Okokugcina iqembu eliphikisayo leDemocratic Alliance, eligqugquzelwa nguSenator uJohn Kerry ukuthi “hlala enkambweni”. Mhlawumbe usuke elandela umthetho omdala wepolitiki wokuthi uma ophikisana naye ezibhubhisa ngemizamo yakhe, wena usuke endleleni. Kodwa-ke, ngokwehluleka ukubekela uMongameli inselelo ngempi, uzibeka engcupheni yokuba yisisetshenziswa esingafuni ukuqhutshwa kwenkulumo-ze ye-White House.
I-UN akufanele ilahle abantu base-Iraq; kanjalo nobuholi base-Iraq akumele; Izintatheli zaseMelika akufanele zibe ngamalungu eDemocratic Party; futhi uJohn Kerry akufanele athathe noma yimuphi umbono ngempi ukuze athole imbangi yakhe. Kodwa bonke kufanele bazi ukuthi, noma ngabe bavuma kanjani ukuthi u-June 30, basiza kakhulu ekukhethweni kabusha kukaMongameli.
Lena ikholomu ka-Jonathan Schell “Incwadi Evela Ku-Ground Zero” evela kumagazini we-Nation. Amakholomu amaningi e-Schell's Ground Zero kusukela ngomhlaka-9/11/2001 asanda kuqoqwa encwadini, Imbobo Emhlabeni, Indaba Eqhubekayo Yempi, Imibhikisho kanye ne-New American Order (Izincwadi Zesizwe). Schell, i-Harold Willens Peace Fellow e-Nation Institute, futhi umbhali we Umhlaba Onganqotshwa: Amandla, Ukungabi Nobudlova, Nentando Yabantu phakathi kwezinye izincwadi eziningi.
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