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Is There Western Racism?
by Andreas Toupadakis
Buried in the details, we have forgotten the most basic question. What are American
soldiers doing in so many countries around the world? In several of them, Americans
have recently again put their military bases, and in others they bomb, and bomb again,
thousands of civilians. The unfortunate people are killed, mutilated, and displaced
by the hundreds of thousands and millions from their houses to the frozen mountains.
Their children lose their feet and hands for life. Where are the borders of the country
called the USA? That is the question that a teenager has asked recently.
They have slowly but steadily come to believe together with their allies that they
are better than others. They even call themselves First World Countries. And slowly
they have made their youth accept and faithfully believe such an absurdity. That
is very dangerous! It is a reminder of the infamous days of the late thirties and
early forties. Many understand that all these so called humanitarian wars are all
about resources, and most importantly, about encircling the "yellow dragon,"
as the westerners like to call China. But China does not drop cluster bombs on other
nations, nor does it publicly suggest attacking weak nations with nuclear bombs,
nor does it place military bases around the world, nor does it belong to an alliance
that goes around the world and gathers members from the former Soviet Union. Not
to say that China is innocent of wrong-doing, but we need to be fair in our observations
and speak the truth.
The illegal terrorists can create some smoke on earth which is visible from a few
miles away, but the legal terrorists are ready, even by mistake, to create such smoke
that will be seen from the ends of the universe. And these legal terrorists have
derived their power from every citizen that pays taxes to his/her own government.
The terrorists are not over there; they are over here. They are us, the citizens
of the world. Our governments are nothing but the faithful representation of our
insecurities and greed. Our governments mirror our inability to imagine a future.
We cannot just blame our governments; we should blame ourselves even more. Without
our consent, they would not have any chance to become legal terrorists. We have paid
and are still paying their salaries. They say that they provide peace to the world
by murdering millions. The world is going to receive the final bill very soon unless
it wakes up. We need to gain again our lost sense of the meaning of life, the "inexhaustible
meaning" of life that the Greek philosophers talked about.
And to make sure that we answer the question of if there is Western Racism, we need
only look at one strange phenomenon, the most important of all.
Western states are developing, maintaining, and threatening to use weapons of mass
destruction against eastern nations while at the same time demanding that these Eastern
nations not be able to acquire them; otherwise they will be bombed. Moreover, these
Western nations are using bribery towards the governments of the rest of the Eastern
nations that already have weapons of mass destruction to make them destroy their
weapons. Allies of such Western states share the blame for whatever happens tomorrow.
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