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Karen,
You wrote:
And it’s been on my mind since Lawry
mentioned the moral sins of our misadventure in Iraq: the huge and complex
economic, environmental and sociocultural impacts of the loss of this major US
city, by natural disaster, should make Americans appreciate how much the ‘shock
and awe’ of the bombing of Baghdad and the invasions of Falluja and Tal Afar
have had on the Iraqi psyche and country. With armed soldiers patrolling streets
and commerce stopped, utilities and infrastructure damaged, looting and fire
decimating historical markers, businesses and homes, doctors working under great
restriction, families separated and dispersed, the press being censored for body
counts, innocents lost and lives changed forever, we are ‘walking a mile’ in the
shoes of Iraqis who faced a very different storm. The New Orleans disaster should indeed help Americans to better appreciate what Iraq's people have been enduring, and with hope, some might even understand that warring on Iraq's innocent people was wrong to begin with. Katrina showed the world that the US can't itself take what it dishes out liberally and intentionally to other nations. No country can be expected to bounce back after its infrastructure and entire people's psyche is attacked. New Orleans is just one area, strategic enough. If any other disasters occur within a short period of time, America too will have its insurgents. Much as we can blame most deaths on Bush's White House for both disasters, Iraq was completely avoidable, and its authors' psychotic persistence in tearing apart the entire fabric of its being for the sake of profit begs the conclusion that it's really the American psyche--who voted in this murderous team, and has supported them through every regrettable day of the Iraq invasion--that might stand to benefit by empathizing with disaster victims. At the next chance to exercise their right to vote, will America understand that sensitivity is strength? I wonder what Kucinich would have accomplished in the last term, or even Gore in the previous one. I wonder if enough Americans will think the same. The question will now be, Who can lead America out of its moral and financial state of bankruptcy? Natalia All mail scanned by NAV |
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