R U.S.atan or an A.ngel!?

Didar Masifi

 

 

Wars are bad. But the two massive destructive wars, the WW1 and WW2 were two valuable lucky tickets for both imperial superpowers the USSR and USA to board on the Aladdin’s magic flying carpet with their muscles puffed invading and dividing every single square foot on the earth and on the sky. Leaving the world in a dangerous stressful situation with two different ideologies that were one hundred per cent opposite each other. So for three quarter of century and in an arena called the twentieth century on the Gregorian calendar, both of these superpowers fought each other tooth and nail like two ancient strong gladiators that one which the loser must leave dead. Just as much as human being’s age that is less than a century. Therefore, ninety percent of the unfortunate century gone with a cold wind, precisely the Cold War which’s known by! And in its ultimate the red tongue Siberian bear fell down on its knees begging for pardon inside turmoil of cold Alaskan blizzard. Contrary, its opponent has reached the throne of absolute power despite the black heat of Alabama, the gargantuan mash-room cloud, and etcs. Surviving with the power of technology, democratic liberal ideology, and the freedom of trade, it has become the only Rambo in the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the only Don Juan in the busy nights of Bangkok. Consequently, today the USA has an ultimate super power with which to lead the world with no irritating nasty partner. But, the deep distrust between the USA and the rest of world is at the highest point also.

"We’re a super-duper power, and I don’t know that the world has seen one of those before". These deep strong arrogant words said to the veteran British journalist just before starting the war on Iraq by the Mr. Raymond Seitz; the former US ambassador to London. This American massage is the view of most American politicians, doesn’t matter if they were riding the daddy elephant or the donkey of Shriek. And in most cases seems to be true. Fore example, the former CIA director during Carter years Admiral Stansfield Turner believes that this is true because of three reasons. The first one, the USA won the Cold War resoundingly. The second one, the USA is the most democratic country in the world and the best example of free enterprise by which the whole world is moving. So if any country doesn’t go that way it will simply be trampled underfoot. Also the last one that Mr. Turner thinks is so important is that the world needs a leader. "The EU didn’t stand up on Bosnia. We did. The EU couldn’t stand-up in Kosovo. We did. So it doesn’t make much difference weather we’re fit or not. We’re there, and no one else is," he said. Although he missed to mention the silence and ignorance of the Islamic congress and the Arab league while witnessing the massacre of the Kurds and couldn’t stand up either against their super hero. The USA was there too, in the mountain helping the frightening Kurdish women who were calling: Hadji Bush! Help us For the sake of Allah! On March 20, 2002, the first full day of the war on Iraq, the coalition forces were numbered like that: 241,516 military personnel from the USA, 41,000 from the U.K, 2,000 from Australia, and 200 from Poland. This is simple statistic that shows the leading role of the U.S.A. is tremendous and the word of coalition is just a manipulating strategy of war in an era in which wars are not cold!

Because of that an other reason many people around the world hate this giant imperial power, but by closing there eyes fore one moment and not think what happened in the past by the U.S.A such as tragedies like oppressive mood of slavery, killing millions of civilians in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Building the Iraq’s Death Machine by its big corporations like DuPond( nuclear), Honey-Well(rocket), and Etman Kodak(rocket), and to destroy them again hundred thousands of children were innocent victims. The U.S.A still looks a very attractive land on the traveler’s map when he/she imagine going into this rectangular geometrical organized shape that is unlike the shape and size of ancient and old empires that simply spread by blood shed and long wars similar to tentacles of the octopus. While the shape of the U.S.A is so simple to look at on the other hand is so complicated to be in. It looks like the chess board on which many savvy Kasparovs could play their first smart move. It’s the land of opportunity and success. It has a lion’s portion in everything; for instance, there are more than quarter million of cars running on the spider web like highways and roads and this makes forty per cent of the world’s total. One million and a half million lawyers which is as much as the population of a very tiny country like Malta, but there is also more than two million persons on prisons. Hopefully one day half of them would be free in order to fit the number of lawyers per capita. That is the simple busy life inside the U.S.A, a country of the 300 million, a huge population that is organized by a very firm powerful system that can handle its countless problems with no question. But any oxymoron situation can cause a great problem in the world.

Many people hate this imperial power because they think The U.S.A. puts its economic interests on the top of all international issues like the famine in Africa, Kyoto, and peace in the world. They reverse all sayings by American politicians about this humanity concerns to economical greedy massages. They believe that those who are in power in the U.S.A. think about their interests and having benefit from every square meter on the map of the world and again if they are unable to imagine the chaotic era in a world without the U.S.A. The vice president of the U.S.A is extraordinary powerful man. Beside his job as politician, he is the CEO of one of the largest oil companies in the world called Hallibuton that just in the year 2000 paid to Mr. Cheney $ 36,086,635 as an annual income. Also they see Mr. Bush as businessman especially when some times talk to journalists about the decision of going to America’s hopefully last war. "Our people risked their lives ……….. And therefore the contracting is going to reflect that , and that’s what the U.S. taxpayers expect" he responded once to a journalist in a news conference. So countries that don’t fit American standard and the way of leading the world they may have the same fate of the Soviet Union. And that’s because America is not just relentless power, but it’s the Microsoft, Hollywood, McDonalds, Nike, Ford, and etc. These are also reasons to make the U.S.A the number one superpower country that can reach every corner of the world with no international permission. Also its power is beyond imagination, so if people like it or disliked the exclusive power of the U.S.A. the reality is not easy to change!

 

 

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