YOU ARE NOT FASCIST, BUT YOUR COUNTRY IS:
Killing Them Softly
With
sanctions, you don’t even have to get into the details of what they are because
they are so simply explained by aims that cannot be denied. Sanctions are a method of mass-murder
set upon the civilians of a country in order to try and control their
rulers. And it may or may not
work; all depending on if the rulers of said country are as ruthless as the one
placing the sanctions. I do not
use the word murder loosely here.
It’s not used for shock or merely to offend, it is because sanctions
work as a war without guns. People
don’t just starve, they don’t just suffer, but they die, sometimes in the
hundreds of thousands. Sanctions
are murder. The intent is
death. Nothing “cripples” the
economy of a country like a pile of dead children.
The
current villain, Iran, is not America’s first journey into this immoral
territory, though it is being ignored by the voting-class just as much as the
last time major sanctions were put upon a country. Those sanctions brought
about the death of up to 500,000 children. Then only a few years later the Federal Government started a
war, which killed hundreds of thousands, wounded hundreds of thousands, and
made a refugee class out of millions.
I’m referring to the sanctions in Iraq in the 90’s under Bush I and Bill
Clinton’s administrations. If
sanctions can kill so many, and the country that was being mass-murdered wasn’t
brought to its knees, then why will it work this time?
Sanctions
are the silent war. We only hear
about them from the media and our leaders in the most basic words. We never hear about the inflation, or
the starvation, or the lack of medical supplies, or the deaths involved. We never have it framed as war, but
what else is it? In the minds of
most Americans it is just a word that means that somewhere some kind of
punishment is going on and the people receiving it must deserve it because our
rulers don’t like them. Why would
any Americans care? They aren’t
us. They don’t look like us. They don’t dress like us or eat like
us. They don’t worship like most
of us. How can we possibly relate?
The people that are suffering and
dying are human beings. Just like
you and I, they have a runaway and controlling centralized government in which
none of us has any control over.
Human beings don’t have to relate by culture, religion, or color to be
the same. Every time we sit down
to dinner, with family or maybe alone; every time we drive to work or ride the
bus; every time we go out for entertainment or take a sip from our favorite
drink, this is all we need to connect.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness drives our cultures no
matter who we are. They are us and
we are them, just people with desires for great things within our own
lives. Human beings don’t desire
mass-murder, nations do.
But
we, as Americans, don’t realize any of this, because just as Iranians have been
put to bed with hard sanctions, we are as oppressed in other ways. Government and state media continue on
with their propaganda, warning of bombs that aren’t there, and not talking of
the oppression that is. The
realities of what we do simply do not reach us because the people being hurt
are the “other.” Would it matter
of the realities of our actions did reach us? It’s not an issue that we vote for, but most likely because
they are Muslim that means they must want to kill us, and I have a feeling that
if we did vote with sanctions on mind, things would be exactly as they are. So while our rulers kill them, either
with weapons or by suppressing their economic liberties, every death of every
child will have been justified because we are America. We are right and we are proud, even
when our hands are covered in the blood of human beings just like us.
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