Destroying the global village to save it
The fact that some researchers say that no soldier ever really said it and that a journalist fabricated the quote is irrelevant. “Destroying the village to save it” entered the popular culture as a catchphrase that defined the zeitgeist.
Now there is a so-called war on terrorism that is supposed to save civilization, apparently by destroying it.
Yes, the self-proclaimed defenders of “freedom” seem determined to destroy civilization in order to save it.
What else can we call it?
When the cultural heritage of the world is plundered from the Baghdad Museum and Iraq’s ancient sites are irrevocably damaged in the very cradle of civilization while occupation troops watch and do nothing, when there is a new classification of prisoner called “unlawful combatants”, when these “unlawful combatants” are held in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and secret prisons in Eastern Europe, when U.S. officials and their allies say that international law and the Geneva Conventions are not applicable in the treatment of these prisoners, isn’t this destroying civilization in order to save it?
Whatever happened to the long march to civilization? Whatever happened to the rule of law?
Even if the terrorists are barbarians, is it civilized to treat them with barbarity?
Certain Western officials and their lackeys are now discussing the legalization of torture. This is totally unacceptable. You cannot fight barbarism with barbarism.
Humanity is supposed to be making progress, but it seems like we are retuning to medieval times. Some say we are living in the New Dark Ages, and perhaps they are right.
In 1945, a few days after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by atomic bombs, Mahatma Gandhi said: “The atom bomb brought an empty victory to the Allied arms. It resulted for the time being in destroying Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see.”
Indeed, what will happen to the souls of the destroying nations today?
Gandhi’s warning still rings true.
With officials of some Western governments saying that the war on terrorism requires restrictions on human rights, civil liberties, and international law, it looks more like a war on civilization than a war on terrorism.
The neoliberal neo-crusaders of globalization have often said: “The terrorists hate our way of life.” Actually, it is just the opposite. The neoliberal neo-crusaders hate modern civilization and our way of life, and are at war with them both.
In 2003, the United States and its allies launched a war on the pretext that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. Today, the only WMD to be found in Iraq is the uranium dust blowing in the breeze from the U.S. military’s depleted uranium weapons.
In the economic realm, globalization is being pursued through the neoliberal economic model, which is enriching members of the global upper class who control the multinational corporations but making life even more miserable for the impoverished masses of the world.
The leaders of the so-called war on terrorism are actually taking away their own citizens’ freedom in the name of protecting their freedom by restricting civil liberties, with the U.S. Constitution being one of their main targets.
According to one theory, this activity that is leading to the destruction of civilization is a random occurrence, a terrible accident, the result of the wrong people attaining positions of power in certain countries.
According to another theory, it is a very deliberate plan devised by the global upper class to help them achieve global hegemony.
Whatever the case may be, something must be done about this state of affairs.
Apathy is the enemy. Every single person who cares about the fate of the planet has a role to play.
If we do nothing, the globalists will destroy the global village to save it, for themselves.