Current mood:

aggravated

Racism and War in the USA...
Appologise for fragmented nature of thought. This was pretty much written from the mass of thoughts jumbled in my head. :-p

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Everyone expressed such suprise at the atrocities commited in Abu Ghandi prison. "How on Earth could our soldiers do such a thing". No-one, however, questioned WHY such a thing happened. They just took it as an isolated incident commited by people under preasure - yet again the American soldiers were the poor ones stuck in a Foriegn country - not those that are being oppressed by Foriegn Occupiers.

I think it will come as a suprise to most Americans on this board that US military abuse has been going on since the US gave people guns and said they could fight and kill under the banner of 'freedom'. Now I am not saying that the US is the only country to do this - far from it. This is just what happens when a military is trained to dehumanise those that the politicians deem as 'enemies'. Racism is a potent tool in warfare as it turns people who are not killers into people who are ready to do so. Although it does raise some questions. How on Earth can you be liberators if you take this attitude to the people you are supposed to liberate?

Now let's look at some examples. The Phillipines. 1898. After winning the war against the 'oppressive' Spannish do they decide to grant the Phillipines its freedom from oppression of another nation? Like hell. The US were going to 'civilise' that country if it was the last thing they did. Lovely how Theodore Rosevelt believed that the US crushing them was a 'triumph over the black chaos of savagery and barbarism'. There were massacres galore (3000 Fillipinos were massacred in Manilla and tortures designed to get information (seem familiar?)

Now of course you could say 'but that was in the past'. And quite rightly so. I mean, after all, in the early 20th Century the US was an utterly racist country but now it is a racial heaven where all races are treated equally and without discrimination, isn't it?

So let us fast foward to Vietnam. The name 'William Carley' ring a bell? He led a group of 80 US soldiers and obliterated a South Vietnameese Village, My Lai. 500 men, women and children dead in the name of 'Democracy'. So what happened? Was he punished for his crime? Was his name spoken with disgust by the American people?

Wrong again.

He was revelled as a National Hero. Jimmy Carter (as Governer for Georgia) urged people to leave their headlights on as a show of support for him, rallies were held in support for him... Support for a mass murderer. And he was not the only one commiting attrocities. The same things that happened in the Phillipines were happening again in Vietnam. Right down to the dehumanisation (From 'niggers' to 'gooks'). And yet again torture was employed as a means to get information.

Then just look at the modern wars. The new 'gooks' are the Arabs or the Islamists. They are 'barbaric' say many of your politicians. They are 'true evil'. They're not people anymore - they are a personification of everything that you fear. Your soldiers are taught this and then you wonder why they commit the attrocities that they do? All you have to do is look at the conditions in Guantanamo Bay or the various Iraq detention centers to see that the cancer of racism inside the US army has still not gone away. And STILL your so-called 'liberal' media supports them... It's scary but you are the only people who can change it.

Now you may ask 'that's true, but what about Britain'. Yes. Britain has done the same. We could talk about the ethnic cleansing of the Highland Scots, we could talk about the Firebombing of Dresden, we could talk about our mistreatment of the Indians. But we are no longer in a position to commit the abuse. The USA is. You have to know what is going on to stop it. Or do you even care?