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Recieved: 2001/10/14 07:24
Subject: Re: [K-list] Peace Another Perspective (2)
From: Bestpoet
On 2001/10/14 07:24, Bestpoet posted thus to the K-list:
I was against the VietNam War, against the invasions of countries like Granada, Panama, Nicaragua. I am against U.S. support of cruel dictators in the 3rd World, agains World Bank and IMF policies of pauperizing, raping and plundering of poor countries.
Yet when one reads the websites of RAWA (Revolutionary Afghanistan Women's Association) and others who recount the bloody oppression of women and men, the annhilation of villages of rival tribes, the whole mindset of the Taliban, I can't help but want them wiped out. Yes, I know the U.S. helped create this situation by being so moronically anti-Soviet, by having no interest in what happens to countries after we sell them the weapons and give them the backing to oust "communism". I know the U.S. supports a different kind of terrorism by it's greed for money and oil and resources and slave labor.
But this does seem to be a different kind of war. Different in that there seem real possibilites for change.
I look at Bush, and see what changes he has been forced to because of this. Unlike his cowboy talk right after the attack, his team has been forced to consult people who know the region. Here we have a unilateralist, isolationist (except when it comes to investment) president, who is forced to think about nation-building, and who even gave it over to the correct body to oversee such plans--the United Nations--whom the U.S. barely tolerated before. Perhaps this could be the beginning of the U.N. really being able to become the body it was meant to be.
Bush (and I use Bush here, but mean his whole group), having thumbed his nose at Kyoto and other world efforts, having to turn to countries all over the world to build a coalition. Perhaps it will not be so easy for him to reject world opinion after this. He has even stated that he thinks it's time for a Palestinian state. They are beginning, perhaps, to understand that certain things need to be attended to.
I see people in the Wall Street district, where I work at computer help desk in a big law firm, who were only concentrated on making money, now more concerned about real life and a different quality thereof.
I see so much in the U.S. newspapers and news magazines about fundamentalism, the Arab countries and their histories and religions, regions and thinking they were hardly aware of before. Now people are really interested in figuring out just why the U.S. is so hated. Yes, many are just gung ho "let's nuke em all", but many more are in a process of growing a greater understanding of the world and our place in it.
Bush, who wanted to shrink government, is now in the position of making government responsible for airport security, of using federal money for rebuilding. Instead of calling those forced to unemployment draws as leeches, Bush is in the position of supporting wider unemployment support. Bush finds himself having to almost become Franklin Roosevelt.
There are so many doors opening up that were closed before. I'm not naive. I know that the U.S. could choose to slam those doors shut again. But I do have hope that some very positive changes can come out of all of this.
Globalization is a fact. There's no way we can keep on building the telecommunications we have and not become a global planet instead of warring nation-states. Perhaps the time of nation-states is ending. But just how will the new world order take shape? Protestors against the WTO, Europe becoming one connected community, the U.N. becoming more than an ineffectual body . . . our species is growing in leaps and bounds right now. Yes, it's still precarious. We could nuke ourselves back to Goddess, or we can really grow. Who knows?
Of course, true to our species juvenile nature (we are such a young species, really), it will be partly bloody. We still haven't evolved beyond that. But there are also new elements of world community, cultural studies, etc. that give us the ability to rise above our barbarian delinquency.
My own feeling is, now that it's begun, I want the Taliban wiped out. I want to see if the U.N. can really be up to it's tasks, I want to see the U.S. join the world community as more than a heavy-handed, gun-toting outlaw. I want to see the 3rd world join the 21st century. I want to see people fed and sheltered and given the space to lead meaningful lives of their choosing. Can our species achieve such a goal? I believe we can. As horrible as the Sept. 11 attack was and still is, the U.S. IS in part responsible, because of foreign policy and monetary interest placed above all else.
There's a very intersting book going around now called Empire, it's like Marx's analysis of capitalism. It's an analysis of capitalism at this point in history. And it's about how globalization has been taking place following the laws of capitalism. Whatever is good for profit is what happens, not what's necessarily good for the species (to put it very, very simply). This is what needs most to change. Globalization needs to take place guided by concern for life, not profit. That is the real war being waged now.
Well, those are some of my thoughts at this point in history. And here's a little poem I wrote. Light to us all.
Barg
Flags everywhere flying flags
Ribbons pins shirts hats
All flags everywhere flying
blue red red red
blue white
red red red
The Empire takes a hit
Tightens its fist
Less light
Less air and
Flags everywhere flying
Candles burning
Also everywhere burning
in autumn
in New York
Everything has changed
the wind
the trains
the way we wear our eyes
Candles flowers shrining everywhere there
are so many centuries alive today
blue red red red
blue white
red red red
Allah
Yahweh
Jesus
The Fertile Crescent Crew
is coming after you
and flags everywhere flying
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