There’s too much out there on the current situation in Iraq for any one person to read. But check Chris Hedges’ post yesterday, The Ghoulish Face of Empire. Hedges:
The black-clad fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, sweeping a collapsing army and terrified Iraqis before them as they advance toward Baghdad, reflect back to us the ghoulish face of American empire. They are the specters of the hundreds of thousands of people we murdered in our deluded quest to remake the Middle East. They are ghosts from the innumerable roadsides and villages where U.S. soldiers and Marines, jolted by explosions of improvised explosive devices, responded with indiscriminate fire. They are the risen remains of the dismembered Iraqis left behind by blasts of Hellfire and cruise missiles, howitzers, grenade launchers and drone strikes. They are the avengers of the gruesome torture and the sexual debasement that often came with being detained by American troops. They are the final answer to the collective humiliation of an occupied country, the logical outcome of Shock and Awe, the Frankenstein monster stitched together from the body parts we left scattered on the ground. They are what we get for the $4 trillion we wasted on the Iraq War.
Of course, most Americans don’t know who Hedges is, and are being fed a steady diet of Cheney, Wolfowitz and Kristol.
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Ah, Yes. America: The Ghoulish Empire Builder. America: The Wanton Killer of Innocent Women and Children. America: The Darkest Most Fiendish Nation on the Face of the Earth. Or, more likely, America through the eyes of a “Hate America Firster”.
When your heart has been darkened and your eyes so blinded by an irrational hatred of America, it is hard to see that what is happening in the middle east right now is just a contuation of centuries of Islamic sectarion hatred, oppression, bloodshed and murder. There is no surprise that this is occurring after we left the country (Question: How do we build an empire or occupy a country when we completely leave the country to its citizens?), it was just a matter of when. How many thousands of Iraqis were killed by other Iraqis both before we got there and after we left the country?
But when you start out from the position of hating America First, shrill hyperbole and hysterical ranting are far more satisfying than any reasoned analysis or unbiased review. Every line in the quote from Mr. Hedge’s article is a rant intended to stir up the weak minded holding similar feelings. It is a house of straw built on a foundation of soft mud…nothing more.