Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad (Classic Vltchek Book 2) by Vltchek Andre

Author:Vltchek, Andre [Vltchek, Andre]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PT. Badak Merah Semesta
Published: 2020-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

So Where Was the Resistance?

A few days before the Iraq war, we were promised massive anti-war demonstrations and public disobedience. Some analysts were predicting the collapse of European governments that decided to support the war, notably those in United Kingdom and Spain.

London was supposed to be virtually shut down by angry crowds, “hundreds of bin-Ladens” were ready to strike at Western targets, according to Egyptian government, and Indonesia was going to plunge into chaos. The war was likely to spread across the entire Middle East and the freedom loving people of the world were about to realize that the only way to preserve their way of life would be to unite and defend themselves against western aggression.

The Germans and the French, heads held high, set about re-discovering glorious words from their long-forgotten pasts.

All this was before the war. Although hardly anyone dared to believe that it could be prevented, some of us hoped that, if it happened, the entire universe would realize how cynical and perverted is a world ruled by a single superpower that increasingly regards itself to be beyond international law, by a single ideology, and in the singular interests of a few rich nations.

To give credit where credit is due, millions of peace loving men, women and children demonstrated against the war in Rome and London, in New York and Jakarta, in Mexico and Sydney.

Then the war began, and the PM Blair’s popularity soared. The protests in Australia diminished in size and frequency, and well over 70% of Americans (didn’t we believe that the real resistance would start at home?) decided that the war deserved be supported.

Two weeks after the beginning of our invasion of Iraq, most of the ‘marching for peace’ crowd were sat in front of their televisions, eating peanuts, potato chips and popcorn, and gaping at CNN’s interminable briefings from Doha Central Command and the Pentagon.

The great show rolled onwards, providing free entertainment to billions all over the globe. As predicted, Iraqi civilians were dying in large numbers, but the great majority of Americans, Europeans and others decided that wasn’t worth the effort of putting on their shoes and marching against the invasion.

Just before the war ended, the French and German governments began toning down their criticism, sending reconciliatory messages to Washington DC along the lines of “We never really wanted Saddam to win” and “We’re actually rather happy that the American and British forces are close to victory.”

Now, several weeks after the war, devastated, divided and chaotic Iraq is almost forgotten, replaced on the television screens by SARS scares and natural disasters elsewhere in the world.

So, towards whom should the opposition direct its ire? At the United States, of course. At its allies, true. At Europe and Japan – the countries that don’t like to fight but are always ready to enjoy the booty – definitely! But what about aiming our wrath at ourselves – at all of us who knew exactly what was going on but decided to watch instead of act?

Despite

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