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> From: Larry Mosqueda <
[email protected]>
>
> Dear Friends and Associates,
>
> Attached is an article I wrote on thecurrent situation. Please pass it
> along or post if you wish.
>
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>
> Larry Mosqueda, Ph.D.
> The Evergreen State College
> September 15, 2001
>
> Like all Americans, on Tuesday, 9-11, I was shocked and horrified
> towatch the
> WTC Twin Towers attacked by hijacked planes and collapse, resulting in the
> deaths of perhaps up to 10,000 innocent people. I had not been that
> shocked and
> horrified since January 16,1991, when then President Bush attacked
> Baghdad, and
> the rest of Iraq and began killing 200,000 people during that "war"
> (slaughter). This includes the infamous "highway of death" in the last
> days of
> theslaughter when U.S. pilots literally shot in the back retreating Iraqi
> civiliansand soldiers. I continue to be horrified by the sanctions on Iraq,
> which have resulted in the death of over 1,000,000 Iraqis, including over
> 500,000 children, about whom former Secretary of State Madeline
> Allbright has
> stated that their deaths "are worth thecost".
> Over the course of my life I have been shocked and horrified by a
> variety of
> U.S. governmental actions, such as the U.S.sponsored coup against
> democracy in
> Guatemala in 1954 which resulted in thedeaths of over 120,000 Guatemalan
> peasants by U.S. installeddictatorships over the course of four decades.
> Last Tuesday's events reminded me of the horror I felt when the U.S.
> overthrew the governments of the Dominican Republic in 1965 and helped to
> murder 3,000 people. And it reminded me of the shock I felt in 1973,
> when the
> U.S. sponsored a coup in Chile against the democratic government of Salvador
> Allende and helped to murder another 30,000 people, including U.S. citizens.
> Last Tuesday's events reminded me of the shock and horror I felt in
> 1965 when
> the U.S. sponsored a coup in Indonesia that resulted in the murder of over
> 800,000 people, and the subsequent slaughter in 1975 of over 250,000 innocent
> people in East Timor by the Indonesian regime with the direct complicity of
> President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissenger.
> I was reminded of the shock and horror I felt during the U.S. sponsored
> terrorist contra war (the World Court declared the U.S.government a war
> criminal in 1984 for the mining of the harbors) against Nicaragua in the 1980s
> which resulted in the deaths of over 30,000 innocent people (or as the U.S.
> government used to call them before the term"collateral damage" was
> invented--"soft targets").
> I was reminded of being horrified by the U. S. war against the people
> of El
> Salvador in the 1980s, which resulted in the brutal deaths of over 80,000
> people, or "soft targets".
> I was reminded of the shock and horror I felt during the U.S. sponsored
> terror war against the peoples of southern Africa (especially Angola) that
> began in the 1970's and continues to this day and has resulted in the deaths
> and mutilations of over 1,000,000. I was reminded of the shock and
> horror I
> felt as the U.S. invaded Panama over the Christmas season of 1989 and killed
> over 8,000 in an attempt to capture George H. Bush's CIA partner, now turned
> enemy, Manual Noriega.
> I was reminded of the horror I felt when I learned about how the Shah
> of Iran
> was installed in a U.S. sponsored brutal coup that resulted in the
> deaths of
> over 70,000 Iranians from 1952-1979. And the continuing shock as I
> learned that
> the Ayatollah Khomani, who overthrew the Shah in 1979, and who was the U.S.
> public enemy for decade of the 1980s, was also on the CIA payroll, while
> he was
> in exile in Paris in the 1970s.
> I was reminded of the shock and horror that I felt as I learned about
> how the
> U.S. has "manufactured consent" since 1948 for its support of Israel, to the
> exclusion of virtually any rights for the Palestinians in their native lands
> resulting in ever worsening day-to-day conditions for the people of Palestine.
> I was shocked as I learned about the hundreds of towns and villages that were
> literally wiped off the face of the earth in the early days of Israeli
> colonization. I was horrified in 1982 as the villagers of Sabra and Shatila
> were massacred by Israeli allies with direct Israeli complicity and direction.
> The untold thousands who died on that day match the scene of horror that
> we saw
> last Tuesday. But those scenes were not repeated over and over again on the
> national media to inflame the American public.
> The events and images of last Tuesday have been appropriately compared
> to the
> horrific events and images of Lebanon in the 1980s with resulted in the deaths
> of tens of thousand of people, with no reference to the fact that the country
> that inflicted the terror on Lebanon was Israel, with U.S. backing. I still
> continue to be shocked at how mainstream commentators refer to "Israeli
> settlers" in the "occupied territories" with no sense of irony as they report
> on who are the aggressors in the region.
> Of course, the largest and most shocking war crime of the second half
> of the
> 20th century was the U.S. assault on Indochina from 1954-1975, especially
> Vietnam, where over 4,000,000 people were bombed, napalmed, crushed,
> shot and
> individually "hands on" murdered in the "Phoenix Program" (this is where Oliver
> North got his start). Many U.S. Vietnam veterans were also victimized by this
> war and had the best of intentions, but the policy makers themselves
> knew the
> criminality of their actions and policies as revealed in their own words in
> "The Pentagon Papers," released by Daniel Ellsberg of the RAND
> Corporation. In
> 1974 Ellsberg noted that our Presidents from Truman to Nixon continually lied
> to the U.S. public about the purpose and conduct of the war. He has stated
> that, "It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that
> they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled."
> I was continually shocked and horrified as the U.S. attacked and
> bombed with
> impunity the nation of Libya in the 1980s, including killing the infant
> daughter of Khadafi. I was shocked as the U.S. bombed and invaded
> Grenada in
> 1983. I was horrified by U.S. military and CIA actions in Somalia, Haiti,
> Afghanistan, Sudan, Brazil, Argentina, and Yugoslavia. The deaths in these
> actions ran into the hundreds of thousands.
> The above list is by no means complete or comprehensive. It is merely
> a list
> that is easily accessible and not unknown, especially to the economic and
> intellectual elites. It has just been conveniently eliminated from the public
> discourse and public consciousness. And for the most part, the analysis that
> the U.S. actions have resulted in the deaths of primarily civilians
> (over 90%)
> is not unknown to these elites and policy makers. A conservative number for
> those who have been killed by U.S. terror and military action since
> World War
> II is 8,000,000 people. Repeat -- 8,000,000 people. This does not
> include the
> wounded, the imprisoned, the displaced, the refugees, etc. Martin Luther King,
> Jr. stated in 1967, during the Vietnam War, "My government is the world's
> leading purveyor of violence." Shocking and horrifying.
>
> Nothing that I have written is meant to disparage or disrespect those who
> were victims and those who suffered death or the loss of a loved one during
> this week's events. It is not meant to "justify" any action by those who bombed
> the Twin Towers or the Pentagon. It is meant to put it in a context. If we
> believe that the actions were those of "madmen", they are "madmen" who
> are able
> to keep a secret for 2 years or more among over 100 people, as they
> trained to
> execute a complex plan. While not the acts of madmen, they are
> apparently the
> acts of "fanatics" who, depending on who they really are, can find real
> grievances, but whose actions are illegitimate.
> Osama Bin Laden at this point has been accused by the media and the
> government of being the mastermind of Tuesday's bombings. Given the
> government's track record on lying to the America people, that should
> not be
> accepted as fact at this time. If indeed Bin Laden is the mastermind of this
> action, he is responsible for the deaths of perhaps 10,000 people - a shocking
> and horrible crime. Ed Herman in his book The Real Terror Network:
> Terrorism in
> Fact and Propaganda does not justify any terrorism but points out that states
> often engage in "wholesale" terror, while those whom governments define as
> "terrorist" engage is "retail" terrorism. While qualitatively the
> results are
> the same for the individual victims of terrorism, there is a clear quantitative
> difference. And as Herman and others point out, the seeds, the roots, of much
> of the "retail" terror are in fact found in the "wholesale" terror of states.
> Again this is not to justify, in any way, the actions of last Tuesday,
> but to
> put them in a context and suggest an explanation.
> Perhaps most shocking and horrific, if indeed Bin Laden is the
> mastermind of
> Tuesday's actions; he has clearly had significant training in logistics,
> armaments, and military training, etc. by competent and expert military
> personnel. And indeed he has. During the1980s, he was recruited, trained and
> funded by the CIA in Afghanistan to fight against the Russians. As long
> as he
> visited his terror on Russians and his enemies in Afghanistan, he was
> "our man"
> in that country.
> The same is true of Saddam Hussein of Iraq, who was a CIA assetin Iraq during
> the 1980s. Hussein could gas his own people, repress the population, and invade
> his neighbor (Iran) as long as he did it with U.S. approval.
> The same was true of Manuel Noriega of Panama, who was a contemporary
> and CIA
> partner of George H. Bush in the 1980s. Noriega's main crime for Bush, the
> father, was not that he dealt drugs (he did, but the U.S. and Bush knew this
> before 1989), but that Noriega was no longer going to cooperate in the ongoing
> U.S. terrorist contra war against Nicaragua. This information is not
> unknown or
> really controversial among elite policy makers. To repeat, this not to justify
> any of the actions of last Tuesday, but to put it in its horrifying context.
> As shocking as the events of last Tuesday were, they are likely to generate
> even more horrific actions by the U.S. government that will add significantly
> to the 8,000,000 figure stated above. This response may well be qualitatively
> and quantitatively worst than the events of Tuesday. The New York Times
> headline of 9/14/01 states that, "Bush And Top Aides Proclaim Policy Of Ending
> States That Back Terror" as if that was a rationale, measured, or even sane
> option. States that have been identified for possible elimination are "a number
> of Asian and African countries, like Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and even
> Pakistan." This is beyond shocking and horrific - it is just as potentially
> suicidal, homicidal, and more insane than the hijackers themselves.
> Also, qualitatively, these actions will be even worse than the original
> bombers if one accepts the mainstream premise that those involved are "madmen",
> "religious fanatics", or a "terrorist group." If so, they are acting as either
> individuals or as a small group. The U.S.actions may continue the homicidal
> policies of a few thousand elites for the past 50 years, involving both
> political parties.
> The retail terror is that of desperate and sometime fanatical small groups
> and individuals who often have legitimate grievances, but engage in individual
> criminal and illegitimate activities; the wholesale terror is that of
> "rational" educated men where the pain, suffering, and deaths of
> millions of
> people are contemplated, planned, and too often, executed, for the
> purpose of
> furthering a nebulous concept called the "national interest". Space does not
> allow a full explanation of the elites Orwellian concept of the "national
> interest", but it can be summarized as the protection and expansion of hegemony
> and an imperial empire.
> The American public is being prepared for war while being fed a continuous
> stream of shocking and horrific repeated images of Tuesday's events and
> heartfelt stories from the survivors and the loved ones of those who lost
> family members. These stories are real and should not be diminished. In fact,
> those who lost family members can be considered a representative sample of
> humanity of the 8,000,000 who have been lost previously. If we multiply
> by 800-
> 1000 times the amount of pain, angst, and anger being currently felt by the
> American public, we might begin to understand how much of the rest of
> the world
> feels as they are continually victimized.
> Some particularly poignant images are the heart wrenching public
> stories that
> we are seeing and hearing of family members with pictures and flyers searching
> for their loved ones. These images are virtually the same as those of the
> "Mothers of the Disappeared" who searched for their (primarily) adult children
> in places such as Argentina, where over 11,000 were "disappeared" in 1976-1982,
> again with U.S. approval. Just as the mothers of Argentina deserved our respect
> and compassion, so do the relatives of those who are searching for their
> relatives now. However we should not allow ourselves to be manipulated
> by the
> media and U.S. government into turning real grief and anger into a national
> policy of wholesale terror and genocide against innocent civilians in
> Asia and
> Africa. What we are seeing in military terms is called "softening the target."
> The target here is the American public and we are being ideologically and
> emotionally prepared for the slaughter that may commence soon.
> None of the previously identified Asian and African countries are
> democracies, which means that the people of these countries have
> virtually no
> impact on developing the policies of their governments, even if we
> assume that
> these governments are complicit in Tuesday's actions. When one examines the
> recent history of these countries, one will find that the American government
> had direct and indirect influences on creating the conditions for the existence
> of some of these governments. This is especially true of the Taliban government
> of Afghanistan itself.
> The New York Metropolitan Area has about 21,000,000 people or about 8
> % of
> the U.S. population. Almost everyone in America knows someone who has been
> killed, injured or traumatized by the events of Tuesday. I know that I
> do. Many
> people are calling for "revenge" or "vengeance" and comments such as
> "kill them
> all" have been circulated on the TV, radio, and email. A few more potentially
> benign comments have called for "justice." This is only potentially benign
> since that term may be defined by people such as Bush and Colin Powell. Powell
> is an unrepentant participant in the Vietnam War, the terrorist contra war
> against Nicaragua, and the Gulf war, at each level becoming more responsible
> for the planning and execution of the policies.
> Those affected, all of us, must do everything in our power to prevent
> a wider
> war and even greater atrocity, do everything possible to stop the
> genocide if
> it starts, and hold those responsible for their potential war crimes
> during and
> after the war. If there is a great war in 2001 and it is not
> catastrophic (a
> real possibility), the crimes of that war will be revisited upon the
> U.S. over
> the next generation. That is not some kind of religious prophecy or
> threat, it
> is merely a straightforward political analysis. If indeed it is Bin
> Laden, the
> world must not deal only with him as an individual criminal, but
> eliminate the
> conditions that create the injustices and war crimes that will
> inevitably lead
> to more of these types of attacks in the future. The phrase "No Justice, No
> Peace" is more than a slogan used in a march, it is an observable historical
> fact. It is time to end the horror.
> In a few short pages it is impossible to delineate all of the events
> described over the past week or to give a comprehensive accounting of U.S.
> foreign policy. Below are a few resources for up to date news and some
> background reading, by Noam Chomsky, the noted analyst. The titles of
> the books
> explain their relevance for this topic.
>
> For the most current information see
http://www.commondreams.org/.
> For information on how the media distorts the news see
http://www.fair.org/.
> For excellent links on the Middle East see
http://al-awda.org/newyork/links.html.
>
> For background reading by Noam Chomsky see:
> Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
> Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Ed
> Herman
> Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians Deterring
> Democracy
>
> --
>
> "An eye for an eye only leaves the whole world blind."
> - Mahatma Gandhi
>
