I'm already too cynical to be swayed by one or two horrible stories or pictures. I have lived in both the "good" and the "bad" society before, good or bad according to the standard that is more fashioned in America. And I have experienced the periods where horrible things being done by either sides. I have seen how the western journalists "digging" up the "hot and spicy" stories to sell to their home crowds, I have known how the people sell their story of how they are tortured or mistreated, just in order to buy the kind of sympathy they are looking for, to take advantage of what they can get, or just in order to "please" his audience/masters because that's what they want to hear.
After I have come to America for so many years, I have learned that what I admired so much before turned out to be a more complex and sophisticated scheme to manipulate people. I have found out that how Might is power can be decorated with that beautiful word "democracy" I mean democrazy to kick the other people around. I have witnessed the killing and butchering of the civilians can be covered up so easily with the cold word "colateral damages".
While I was watching the looting crowd chanting "Thank you Mr. Bush", I was wondering what's their term of freedom, is that the freedom to kill? While I was reading that four to five thousand years old of treatures were thrown up for grab by the excited crowds, I was wondering what would they do if they are with the power of Saddam. While I was told that the liberation of the Iraqi people will lead them to the magical "democracy" world, I was wondering isn't Khomeini's islamic rebublic was the result of the "will of the people"?
When I listened to the radio talk show, hearing how Saddam killed his Son of Law, I was wondering does the caller know that a grand daughter of a Saudi Prince has her head cut off just because she wants to run away with her forbidden lover. While I was listening to all the WMD talks I was wondering how many of them know that it was the same Mr. Rumsfield asked the same Mr. Hussein whether he needs more chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq war.
While I was listening all the tough talks from Mr. Rumsfiled, I was wondering will the other countries be intimidated, if not then whatelse they will do next. I was wondering if U.S. can invade other countries at will, what a great example it is setting for the rest of the world? I was wondering if the great Roman empire can't hold on to its power forever, can America do that?
This is a time of confusion, a time for retrospection, a time for soul searching. |
