Recently, I surveyed the graduation class of my college to whom I am teaching literature and it is considered the most liberal class in the college. I jotted down a survey, asking different questions from the students and out of 54, almost 75 percent were against the United States, but they were equally passionate to visit the States for educational or other purposes. When I asked the reasons, one of them made a difference.
He said that we must understand that there is a hell of difference between the Americans, America and the American Government. He went on to say that most of the Americans even don’t know what their government and their top secret agency, CIA, is doing in other countries, supporting his argument with a plethora of solid evidences, he said that no American wants to kill others without a legal trail. No American intends to harm other people, living thousands of miles away from America, having never heard of it. Some of the Americans hardly ever know about half of the Islamic countries and even the image of Islam has been tarnished by the American media so much so that mostly they equal Islam with terrorism and Muslims with terrorists, diehard, ever ready to cut the throats of other people, not belonging to their religions, if they know it at all.
His other argument was that Americans value their values but the American Government, which ensures the same at home, does not spread or preach the same values abroad. American Government has always supported Hosni Mubarak, Asad, Saddam and other dictators at one or the other point. Even this new Arab Spring is not the American doing for democracy or other beneficial purpose. It is rather an action to create a new Middle East thought a long time ago.
He supported his argument with evidences that no war has ever been fought on the American soil, but it has always been engaged in fighting in one or the other country. The examples are that it created a rift in Korea, then it got engaged in Vietnam, then in Afghanistan, Iraq and now the likely target is Iran or Syria. He cited examples from the New York Times, which published a report today that the American CIA agents are involved in sponsoring terrorism in Syria against the Asad regime, but the government officials deny this support.
When I calculated the results of the survey, around 81 percent of the students exonerate the US public for supporting their government. The reason most of them cited that they are ignorant fellows ever engaged in their bread and butter. The homeless in New York was a clear example. Occupy Wall Street movement was another example of frustrate against the US capitalism. The US wealth is in just a few hands that maneuver Congress and run the government to protect their commercial interests anywhere in the world. Hence, the public has nothing to do with senseless attacks and killings of the people in Afghanistan and other countries. They are just collateral damage and statistics for them people who are not sure from where the next morsel is coming from. [to be continued]
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