Why Do We Hate America? [3]

Our debate in the class of Why Do We Hate American continued in the third week of June and we learned much about the opinions and ideas of the young generation. A student having irreligious tendencies said that though we love Americans, American values and American system ensuring rule of law, we hate only American policies. There is a slight difference between all of them. For example, common Americans are very loving at heart and even some of them still see the operation against Bin Laden in Pakistan an act of extra judicial killing, for they do not see any reason in killing an old man, irrespective of the fact that he wreaked havoc against the civilians, when he was unarmed and to capture and held him accountable to know the real facts was quite easy. This would have known the real motives and culprits behind the 9/11 tragedy.

That student held the same view. He said that it is not that the American policymakers should unleash their power over very other place and against every other country on the pretext of chasing Al-Qa’ida affiliates. They, in fact, have let it proliferate and spread its ideology form France to America, From Pakistan to the Horns of Africa and from Palestine to Indonesia. Who will be at the losing end? Of course, the Americans. Another view he expressed was that by making Al-Qa’ida a scapegoat, the US policymakers have changed their values. For example, there was full freedom of religion in several countries and specifically in Europe and America, but that is not the case now. Every Muslim, howsoever peaceful and liberal he might be, is now chased by the agencies and is suspected of having terror links. This led to ban on veil in France and debate in Germany over the same issue. The reaction from the Muslim countries emerged in the shape of intensified hatred against the western values and western world that further fueled the hatred against America.

Even the current US policy of deploying its armies everywhere in the world and hovering over the unknown places through drone technology would not bear any fruit except changes in the international national – a scenario more frightening. Imagine, if any other country follow the suit in the name of its own security? If Russia or China decides to do the same in the United States for their own security, what will be the world like? Really, his fears about such happenings are not wrong.

He went on to say that the system the United States has devised is about profit and loss. Whenever its defense machine sees that the US defense products are not gaining any substantial market share, they start a war and test their weapon systems. Create new fears and new enemies for every other country and sell their arms. It is on the record that no company in the world is making more profit than Lockheed Martin and Boeing, both the US defense industrial complexes. Same is the case of other defense product industries. [to be continued. ]

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