COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
"The British Iraq
and Afghanistan war memorial celebrates those who destroyed my country"
It could not be said better than that.
This monument to acts of idiocy is actually a form of fake
news, a fake historical memorial, trying to render heroic what was cowardly,
trying to make significant what was shameful.
The establishment just never stops trying to tell us what
kind of a world it is arranging for us without our consent, a kind of fantasy
story to cover the actual nastiness we can all see for ourselves.
I have to add, too, that this particular piece of sculpture
almost inadvertently reveals its poor intent.
It is just plain ugly, strongly resembling what we might
have expected the Soviets to build in Hungary, 1956.
A Tony Blair vision of something inspiring, an ugly lump
cast in bronze and stone and dedicated to mass murder.
Ugh!
The ugly monument may be seen here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/iraq-afghanistan-war-memorial-blair-destroyed-my-country-a7626906.html
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Response to another
reader’s comment:
If you had an ounce of knowledge, you'd know Afghanistan
really wasn't even a country in the sense that we understand it, so religion
could hardly overwhelm country.
It was a loosely organized area of tribal people living a
hardscrabble life. There were even few roads. The border with Pakistan was
never even formally settled.
Fighting between tribal groups went on incessantly, as the
Northern Alliance versus the Taleban.
Indeed, they were, and are, all Muslims although they
adhered to different factions, as Catholics fighting Lutherans in 16th century
Europe.
There was no reason on earth to invade the place beyond
American fury and demands for vengeance. Simply insane. The Taleban were in no
way responsible for 9/11.
The US has never provided a scrap of evidence that even Osama
bin Laden, a Saudi in exile in Afghanistan, was responsible either.
The Taleban government would have extradited him after 9/11
and said so, if the US had presented any credible evidence, but they refused to
do what is normal procedure for extraditions.
And if you had an ounce of knowledge, you'd know for sure
Saddam Hussein allowed no religious extremists or terrorist to flourish in
Iraq. None. It was actually in many ways the most advanced country in the Arab
world.
He was a tyrant, true, but that's just the kind of people
the US and Britain support anyway so long as they toe the American policy line
-eg, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, etc., etc.
Iraq was only invaded to reduce it to a set of rump states
for Israel's benefit. The same effort has been underway in Syria for six years,
only using covert operations and proxy armies instead of direct invasion.
It was only after the Bush-Blair illegal invasion of Iraq,
we get the likes of ISIS and Al-Nusra.
