Aby June 28th, 2007
You might have pondered this question, especially if you live outside of America and are aware of the activities of US around the globe. Or perhaps you are an American and want to know why the world detests America so much. There are several reasons for this, one of them is the US foreign policy which irks most nations - be they democratic, autocratic or communists. After the World War 2, the United States of America has followed a foreign policy which is increasingly aggressive and extremist against countries not complying to American will and its petty interests.
Bodies of Vietnamese children massacred by US forces: Victims of American Foreign Policy
Successive American governments (with a few exceptions like Clinton, Carter, etc.) have shown in the last few decades that they are ready to kill hundreds of thousands of people for the sake of their political or business interests. At times the issue is so trivial that if a local government is not supportive of American companies or US influence, attempts are made by American agencies like CIA to destabilize that government by mass dissent, genocides, military coups or assassinations. United States owes apologies and compensations for the genocides of at least 11 million people around the world. The United States administration is guilty of so many crimes against humanity that they could have given Adolf Hitler a complex for not being able to rival the US in genocides. A few of the serious ones among them are shown below. The links for more details are given and if you find these unbelievable you can consult the relevant reports and historical records to verify these -
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100000 civilians in Guatemala (1954), mostly the Mayans perished in the US organised coup to overthrow the popular Jacobo Arbenz. Reason was given as Arbenz’s close ties and friendliness with USSR and to improve the living standard of the Guatemalans.
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600000 people died in bombings by USA on peasants and their fields in Cambodia (1973). Many historians agree that Cambodia is the most bombed country in history and they did not have any credible air of land defence to protect themselves.
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1000000 Iranians were killed in the Iraq - Iran War from 1980 - 1990 by US backed and financed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. It is ironic the US tried Saddam for the same crimes it was an ally to and more ironic that it financed and backed Saddam to topple the democratically elected Iraqi government.
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During end of Vietnam war (1975), US was defeated and it failed to put its choice of government into power against the people’s choice - Ho Chi Minh. To avenge the defeat and death of its 58022 killed soldiers, it released several million tons of Agent Orange and Napalm bombs which killed at least 2500000 Vietnamese civilians. The sanctions and blockades forced by US killed an additional minimum of 1.5 million people.
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1200000 children died in Iraq between 1990 - 1997 as a result of US and UK led sanctions against medicine and food supplied to Iraq after the gulf war and also because of bio-chemical weapons used on Iraqis - according to World Food Program and UNICEF reports.
Every act of these mass genocides and massacres was given a catchphrase justification to suit the American tastes, most commonly being, in the ‘interests of America‘, ‘for freedom‘, ‘war or terrorism‘, ‘war against evil of communism‘, etc. but without a credible justification for the massive losses of human lives and property a war would cause. And yes, a lot of things which the US forces and special forces carry on around the world go unnoticed by the media and public alike till it gets leaked or gets declassified decades later - after the issue has ‘decayed’ (can no longer cause outrage as a fresh incident would have caused).
In the long run such activities create a dissent for Americans around the world. It makes them a target of mockery, hate, attacks both in foreign countries and attacks in mainland America itself. While no sane person would justify attacks on innocent civilians, understanding the root causes which cause such attacks is the first step to solving the problem. If critical issues are brushed under the carpet nothing can be achieved except further death and destruction of American people who often have nothing to do with what their governments are up to in rest of the world.
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Dmitri June 20th, 2007
After the dissolution of Soviet Union, the Eastern Europeans were ‘freed’ from socialism and probably never dreaming that America, with all its liberty and justice would use their lands as torture camps for foreigners. It all started when the US President Bush signed a secret executive order authorizing the CIA to kill, capture or detain suspected terrorist operatives. The secret executive was followed by US forces and CIA leading the pack of oppressive third world nations in the use of medieval torture methods like feigned drowning, feigned suffocation and other inhuman methods of torture which would shock and disgust any sane human being. The playgrounds for these activities were secret camps in Poland, Romania and other East European nations along with Iraq and Afghanistan.
The story doesn’t end here. The incidents of torture gained prominence after the 2004 abduction and torture of Osama Nasr Mostafa Hassan from Italy. It came a long way since Americans showed their real face in the world after their proclaimed victory in World War 2 - with their activities in Vietnam, Korea and Panama. Torture has been used by the American forces in Iraq and their operatives in other countries way before Mr. Hassan’s abduction case in Italy leaked the fiasco. It was also common for Israelis to use brutal torture methods on their Arab citizens and Palestinians with approval of the US. After the Medieval Ages it seems the US and its allies have patented torture in the First World and outsourced their ‘torture arts’ in the third world countries along with customer support. The horror of it all is that the US administration and a lot of Americans not only acknowledge it but gloat over it and use short sighted justifications of such inhuman acts.
The wife and son of Al Jamadi hold up a photo of his dead body with a smiling Sabrina
Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi bombing suspect in detention died after a fruitless half-hour interrogation by US forces in November 2003. He was tortured to death by being suspended from a barred window by his wrists, which were bound behind his back and then beaten till he bled from his mouth and nose. The method of torture, nicknamed as Palestinian Hanging came into light after the uncovering of the Abu Gharib scandal in February 2005 with pictures of smiling US Army specialists Sabrina Harman and Charles Graner offering thumbs up. Of course the channel Al Jazeera had to pay for this revelation by having its offices bombed and journalists detained in Guantanamo Bay without a trial. The worse of all this is that the perpetrators of this inhuman act of murder were acquitted with only Harman facing prosecution of a mere sentence of six months - about the same that a common burglar gets. So much for the justice and freedom of press…
Americans often justify the torture of foreign prisoners as deserving of terrorists and rebels. But we know that in a real political world, ‘terrorism’ is a relative term. The Jews who fought back against Nazis and killed themselves to prevent capture by the Gestapo were branded as terrorists by the National Socialist Germans. Much like the Palestine of today where Israeli aggressors and occupiers brand Palestinians as terrorists by putting them in the same ranks as mercenaries like Al Qaeda. A suspect in detention or a person fighting for his/her rights is not a terrorist but a suspect or a victim respectively. Terrorism as defined in dictionaries is violence or threat of violence for an ideological or political goal. By this definition, we have the largest terrorist state in the world - USA which paves the way for the terrorists in the rest of the world to follow, in a shroud of double standards and hypocrisy.
Destabilising governments, gang rapes of ethnics, torture, mass genocide - name any human rights crime and the United States wins the first prize. And now we have the Americans proud of their nation’s capability to capture and break weak nations by military force; torture their citizens; bomb mothers, fathers, sons and daughters and then show their power by gang raping 14 year old girls before dousing them in flames. Sometimes we are left gaping in wonder, which is worse - the erstwhile Nazis or the present Americans. Somewhere under the earth, Adolf Hitler is laughing from his grave - proud that Americans have picked up where he left and carried his legacy forward…
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