Why Do We Hate America? [2]

This polemic continued for the next week and several students came up with different arguments, saying that it is not that we hate the entire country including its good people, we only hate what they are doing to us and other people on this earth in their greed for resources, money and power.

A bearded fellow made very strong arguments in this connection. About Arab Spring, he said that it is a US handiwork in that the American policymakers wants to change the entire Middle East to bring about changes so that no Arab country could be powerful enough to challenge its ploy that is Israel. The benefit for America will be that it will have continuous cheap oil flow to run its economy and for Israel that its existence will remain intact and it will not face any considerable threat.

When answering about 9/11 incident, he said that it was right in a way that it taught America a lesson to feel the pain that others feel, and wrong that it was felt by the common people and not those who are the helms of the affairs. It was a tragic incident, but its reaction was wrong and misplaced. For example, it was tied to Al-Qa’ida, a handful of organization, capable to striking America in its heart. However, in reaction, the entire American might was unleashed on Afghanistan and Iraq. Consequently around 400,000 Afghanis and Iraqis have been killed in collateral damage along with several others in the attacks of the insurgents and this was a clear revenge of 3,000 9/11 victims. Those who have been killed in drone attacks, diseases spread as a result of carpet bombing and uranium related diseases have not been counted. The United States also lost around 10,000 of its soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan along with several others now suffering from lifetime injuries and post-traumatic disorder. It is correct that the America found a logic to take on the Afghanis for harboring terrorists, but there was not a single terrorist in Iraq. It was invaded just to replace Saddam and the removal of that man cost the lives of 300,000 people. The sanctions that lasted nine years before attack elicited a comment from Miss Albright when she was asked that around 90,000 children have died due to sanctions that stopped the flow of medicines and she callously replied the job was worth it.

Another argument he placed was that America is not what it used to be once. It was a torchbearer of freedom, independence and prosperity. Now it is a leading force engaged in oppression, attack, barbarism and killing. It did nothing to resolve long standing issues plaguing the Muslim world such as Palestine and Kashmir and its tacit and material support to the Israelis to unleash their airpower against the unarmed civilians caused much uproar in the Arab world that angered the youth, ultimately leading to 9/11. It did nothing to stop the genocide of Palestinians in Sabira and Shatila camps in Lebanon in 1982. It did nothing to liberate Kashmiris from the Indian clutches. [to be continued]

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