´´Tears of Joy´´ For ´´Peace´´, Not ´´Victory´´!
Nov. 10, 2008
Peace-loving American patriot Michael F. Moore is writer, liberal political commentator, political activist, award-winning filmmaker, and one among the world´s 100 most influential people in 2005, as named by Time, a weekly American newsmagazine.
One day after the national election on Tuesday (November 4, 2008), Michael Moore writes:
´´In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea. The racists were present throughout the campaign and in the voting booth. But they are no longer majority, and we will see their flame of hate fizzle out in our lifetime.´´
Unfortunately, so far the political leadership in the United States has not yet reconciled neither with the realities of the war on the ground in Afghanistan nor with the increasing calls for peace and a political solution by many. During the election campaign the two candidates for President, the Republican John McCain and the Democrat Barack Obama, insisted on expanding the war in Afghanistan. Both candidates were talking of ´´victory´´ in Afghanistan. For fear of being labeled ´´weak´´ on national security, both of them have not uttered the word ´´peace´´ in their mix of policy options toward Afghanistan.
Now that Barack Hussein Obama won the election and became President-elect of the United States of America, Michael Moore would like to remind him of something very important of what the people of America are sick and tired. Listen to Michael Moore:
´´There was another important ´first´ last night. Never before in our history has an avowed anti-war candidate been elected president during a time of war. I hope President-elect Obama remembers that as he considers expanding the war in Afghanistan. The faith we now have will be lost if he forgets the main issue on which he beat his fellow Dems [Democrats] in the primaries and then a great war hero [John McCain] in the general election: The people of America are tired of war. Sick and tired. And their voice was loud and clear yesterday [November 4, 2008].´´
President –elect Barack Obama! Would you please remember three things:
1. You have not yet spelled out an exit strategy from Afghanistan, other than a presumed military victory.
2. ´´The guerrilla wins if he does not lose´´ (Patrick J. Buchanan, July 29, 2008), and consequently, you cannot exit.
3. Learn from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Dr. Rahmat Rabi Zirakyar
Independent Scholar, U.S.A.
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بېرته شاته
´´In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea. The racists were present throughout the campaign and in the voting booth. But they are no longer majority, and we will see their flame of hate fizzle out in our lifetime.´´
Unfortunately, so far the political leadership in the United States has not yet reconciled neither with the realities of the war on the ground in Afghanistan nor with the increasing calls for peace and a political solution by many. During the election campaign the two candidates for President, the Republican John McCain and the Democrat Barack Obama, insisted on expanding the war in Afghanistan. Both candidates were talking of ´´victory´´ in Afghanistan. For fear of being labeled ´´weak´´ on national security, both of them have not uttered the word ´´peace´´ in their mix of policy options toward Afghanistan.
Now that Barack Hussein Obama won the election and became President-elect of the United States of America, Michael Moore would like to remind him of something very important of what the people of America are sick and tired. Listen to Michael Moore:
´´There was another important ´first´ last night. Never before in our history has an avowed anti-war candidate been elected president during a time of war. I hope President-elect Obama remembers that as he considers expanding the war in Afghanistan. The faith we now have will be lost if he forgets the main issue on which he beat his fellow Dems [Democrats] in the primaries and then a great war hero [John McCain] in the general election: The people of America are tired of war. Sick and tired. And their voice was loud and clear yesterday [November 4, 2008].´´
President –elect Barack Obama! Would you please remember three things:
1. You have not yet spelled out an exit strategy from Afghanistan, other than a presumed military victory.
2. ´´The guerrilla wins if he does not lose´´ (Patrick J. Buchanan, July 29, 2008), and consequently, you cannot exit.
3. Learn from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
بېرته شاته