Uncle Sam, open your eyes to truth!!

 

                                           

 

An analysis on how flawed and destructive U.S.

policies towards Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iran and

Iraq contributed to hatred towards America!!

 

By Dr. Iniyan Elango (alias) R.S. Sridhar.

 

Dear friends,

 

I am one of those who could be called an

Americophile!!

 

I love everything about America : the people, the

music, the food, the society, the humor and even the

women!! There was a time when I wished that I was born

in the USA!! I used to sing with Bruce Springsteen as

a teenager to the tune of "Born in the USA" with hairs

sticking straight on my skin!! And I am crazy about

American films! As a child I was brought up on a diet

of Newsweek, Time (magazines) and Rock and Roll in a

quaint town in northern Tamil Nadu which was known for

its match factories!

 

I have to confess that the only woman who properly

dated me, by agreeing to spend an evening with me

(albeit only to watch a movie on television!) was an

American Jewish lady by the name Francie Allen (God

bless her wherever she is!). Friendly and honest

people like Francie Allen whom I met in a train from

Chicago to Detroit in 1990 only aggravated my love and

fondness for Americans!!

 

And, I have many African-American friends!!

 

Even American brand of racism is more open and I feel

that Americans discuss racism more freely than the

stiff and reserved British!!

 

But I do make a distinction between the American

people and the American Government, a distinction many

people fail to make, especially those who high jacked

U.S. Planes and used them to attack the World trade

center and the Pentagon, and, also those who call for

recriminational attacks against Afghans!!

 

I am not a hate monger. I am a honest political

analyst. When I read the British media reports after

the tragic incidents in America last week I cannot

help but conclude, with the exception of "The

Guardian", that most of the British papers insulted my

intelligence. The ignorance, bigotry and the overt

racism displayed by the British media made me conclude

that the Brahmanical (Indian) newspapers were hundred

times better!!

 

First of all let us all be clear about one fact. We

all feel profound sorrow and shock for the loss of

thousands of innocent American lives. We deeply regret

and unequivocally condemn the mindless terrorist

attacks in New York and Pentagon.

 

But having said that I have to place the

responsibility for the past week's terrorist incidents

that resulted in tremendous loss of innocent American

lives right at the door step of the CIA, Pentagon, the

congress and senate of the United States, the

Washington "think-tanks" that direct U.S. foreign

policy and most of all the American media!!

 

There is a saying from the "Thirukkural", the Tamil

book of wisdom, which says: "Noi Naadi, Noi Mudhal

Naadi, Vaai Naadi Vaippak kolalal". This is a couplet

written in chaste Tamil sometime around 500 BC!! It

simply asks not to treat the symptoms of a disease,

but to treat the root cause! And I have to say, with

much regret, short sighted and destructive U.S.

foreign policy over the past 40 years directly

contributed to last week's terrorist acts.

 

U.S. AND SAUDI ARABIA:

 

The United States has a "cozy" relationship with Yemen

and Saudi Arabia, nations run by deeply

fundamentalistic  feudal regimes of Sheiks. There are

U.S. military bases in Saudi Arabia and Saudis can

easily get American visas !! A fact that easily helped

those who carried out last week's attacks to enter

into the USA easily! (Please always remember that

Osama bin Laden and also those accused of carrying out

the attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon were

Saudis and (some Yemenis), but were NOT Iraqis,

Palestenians, Libyans, Afghans or even Iranians!!)

 

Then why is then those who want to attack Afghanistan

are not asking for a ban or at least a stricter U.S.

visa policy for Saudi and Yemeni nationals who want to

enter the USA? Why aren't they asking for attacks or

at least searches in the regions in Yemen and Saudi

Arabia from which the mass murderers of U.S. citizens

hailed from? Why no one is asking for at least a

re-assessment of friendly relations with Saudi Arabia

and Yemen?

 

Didn't the CIA know that Saudi nationals with hard

line hatred against USA were entering the USA? After

all the military quarters of USA was bombed in Saudi

Arabia a few years ago killing scores of marines and

that should have led the USA to be more vigilant

towards Saudi nationals who were entering and living

in USA! Are you asking me to believe that the CIA and

the FBI are that "naive" to allow Saudi nationals with

hard line views against the USA into the U.S. soil and

not tap their phones or monitor their activities? I

bet that these Saudi and Yemeni mass murderers who had

connections with extremist groups (with hard line

hatred for US) would have been identified right at the

time of applying for a U.S. visa! Believe me, I know

something about getting a U.S. visa because I got my

first one after applying and getting myself rejected

five times!! Only an angry letter to the Madras U.S.

Consul demanding to know whether I have to be a

Columbian drug baron to get a U.S. visa got me a U.S.

visa by post without having to apply again! Therefore

the CIA should have known and identified this "gang"

of Saudi and Yemeni mass murderers (who entered the

USA only a few months ago) when they applied for U.S.

visas!! Every U.S. Embassy and consulate has a CIA

desk and I am sure that these mass murderers could not

have set foot on U.S. soil without the CIA knowing who

they were, when they applied for U.S. visas!!

 

Even if the United States Justice Department allowed

this murderous gang of Saudis and Yemenis to enter the

USA knowing who they were, they would have and should

have certainly monitored their movements! Therefore,

did the CIA know about last week's incidents and those

who executed these incidents in advance, but allowed

it to happen so that it will prop up a failing U.S.

economy by resurrecting the military industrial

complex and also bring back jingoism in the world

political discourse which had become (of late) quite

critical of globalization and the Palestinian

situation? YOUR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE!!

 

Now, you may ask why is the USA very cozy with a

virulently feudal regime in Saudi Arabia (and other

gulf Sheikdoms) which are just using Shariat (Islamic)

law as an excuse to oppress the masses from rising

against the Sheikdoms?  The answer lies in "oil!"

 

Now to Afghanistan!! I would go to the extent of

saying that the United States should tender an apology

for its policies towards Afghanistan during the last

25 years which has decimated, impoverished and caused

untold misery to the Afghan people!!

 

Afghanistan was ruled by a progressive socialist

regime backed by the Soviets which allowed women and

children to educate themselves unlike the Taliban

regime which wants women to cover themselves and stay

at home. It was the USA which supported and armed

Islamic fundamentalists such as Osama Bin Laden, the

Mujahideen and others to fight the socialist Afghan

regime which was supported by the Soviets!! (Let me

add here that I am no Communist and I have not read

Marx, but I just believe in common sense!) Now the

armed insurrection of the Mujahideen aided and funded

by the USA and organised by "friends of America" like

Osama bin laden, not only put paid to a progressive

regime that would have brought primary health care and

education to the Afghan people, but also gave rise to

the power of Islamic fundamentalists and eventually

the accession of Taliban!!

 

It will be just a simple fact to state that the United

States is directly responsible for the rise of Islamic

fundamentalism in Afghanistan!! Taliban was borne out

of U.S. funding and support!! And Osama bin laden was

a mercenary hired, supported, aided, armed and helped

by the United States of America!! Finally when these

friends of America won their "holy war" against the

Socialists and the Soviets, they turned their "holy

war" against the USA for reasons best known to CIA!!

Some say that the use of Saudi territory in the gulf

war against Iraq turned the Saudi mercenary Osama bin

Laden against the USA!! But the real truth about why

the friends of America who fought the holy war against

the Socialists "for" the Americans turned their holy

war "against" the Americans will never be known!!

(Sylvester Stallone who starred and produced a

outright propaganda film - "Rambo 3" - to glorify the

U.S. funded and supported "Afghan mercenaries" who

fought an Islamic "holy war" against the Afghan

socialists and Soviets, may be knowing how the heroes

of his "reel-life" (film) turned villains in "real

life" within a decade after he made the film!!! I am

citing the example of Rambo 3 only to highlight how

Osama bin Laden and his kind, who are demonized now by

the USA and the global media were "lionized and

glorified" in a Hollywood film just ten years ago!!

 

It is needless to add that hundreds of thousands of

Afghans died needless deaths in the proxy war fought

by the USA using Osama Bin Laden and his kind against

the Afghan Socialists!! Now, after the heroes of

"Rambo 3" became the rulers of Afghanistan under the

holy garb of "Taliban", they are compelled to give

sanctuary to the guy who helped them in their holy war

against the Socialists, namely, Osama Bin Laden!! ( I

have strong suspicions that the character played by

the actor Omar Sharif in Rambo 3 was modelled after

Osama bin Laden himself!!)

 

Now the US Government is blaming its former friend and

comrade Osama Bin Laden for the attacks in New York

and Pentagon and wants to bomb Afghanistan!! May be

USA wants to wipe out the remaining Afghans who

survived the U.S. sponsored "holy war" against the

Socialists!! If this is not genocide what else is? I

would accuse the USA for abetting the genocide of

Afghans by its outright destructive policies in

Afghanistan during the past 25 years.

 

On top of this, when Afghans flee the oppression

created by the west in their country, they are refused

asylum by a racist Australian white regime in

Australia which is lording over a vast uninhabited

land belonging to black Dravidian aborigines!! And the

shamelessly racist British tabloids mock at Afghan

refugees through cartoons!!

 

Now we come to the issue of Iraq and Saddam Hussein. I

am no fan of Saddam. I hated Saddam even when the USA

was in love with him, went to bed with him and was

making love to him!! Saddam was armed, supported,

funded and aided by the United States to fight the

Iranians for more than 15 years. The USA turned a

blind eye when Saddam was using the power given by the

USA to kill innocent Kurdish civilians and his

political enemies. The USA loved Saddam!! Like Rambo

3, Hollywood made a movie glorifying the Iraqi regime

of Saddam (many won't believe this, but this is

true)!! I forget the name of the movie, but I guess it

starred Ben Cross as an Iraqi pilot who is in love

with an American (played by Mariel Hemingway, I guess)

and fighting the evil Iranians!!

 

Some how, Saddam who was a close pal of Uncle Sam

through out the eighties, suddenly turned enemy at the

dawn of the nineties! It was "Newsweek" which ran a

story about how Saddam was led to believe by the U.S.

Ambassador to Iraq that America will stand by and

watch if he invaded Kuwait!! (Obviously US wanted to

create a war situation by trapping Saddam into a war

just like the Justice department and the CIA turning a

blind eye to Saudi terrorists entering the U.S.

soil!!)

 

Now to the Iranians!! Just like Afghanistan, Iran was

ruled by a Socialist regime in the late sixties which

was over thrown by the CIA only to give impetus to the

rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran!! The Shah of

Iran who succeeded the Iranian Communists was replaced

by the triumphant return of Ayotalla Khomeini!!

 

So you can see that the USA played a direct or major

role in the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in many

nations!! Then why is the US government and media

hating Islamic fundamentalistic regimes created by

them directly or indirectly? You will decipher the

answer to this question when you analyze this essay in

its entirety!

 

Libya, the only progressive Islamic country in the

middle east which allows even women into the army was

always considered an enemy by the USA for reasons

which beats even me!! Gaddaffi is accused of

harbouring Palestenian and Lebanese terrorists!! With

American policies towards nations of the middle east

bordering on the insane, (as described above),

Gaddaffi or anybody else could have done nothing

except to oppose America.

 

Now to Israel. My love for the Jewish people, culture

and history is well known in my friends' circles!! I

should have been the only person to write extensively

about the holocaust in my Tamil articles. (The Tamils

are completely ignorant about the Second World War and

the holocaust!!) Even an obvious cursor of history

will know that Jews enjoyed protection for their faith

and themselves in all Islamic nations during the past

centuries because the prophet (Mohammed) specifically

asks Muslims to protect and patronize Jews!! It was

the Christian Europeans who killed and persecuted Jews

over the centuries and finally almost eliminated them

from Europe as a "Final Solution" by the Nazis!! But

bizarrely the Jews have forgotten the protection they

enjoyed from Muslims over the centuries and allowed

the Palestinian problem to fester to such an extent

that Arab-Muslims and Jews are at logger heads with

each other!!

 

I know one thing for sure. No true believer in the

Koran can call for murdering the Jews because the Holy

Koran wants Muslims to protect the Jews. I feel it was

the cunning British colonial ploy of dividing nations

imperfectly thereby causing a festering wound for

decades, (if not centuries), that led to the Arab

Israeli conflict!! Just like the division of India and

Pakistan with a festering Kashmir problem, Palestine

was divided imperfectly to create Israel so that

Palestinians were not settled and rehabilitated

properly leading to a festering problem, leading again

to untold misery for Palestinians!!

 

NOW, THE ABOVE MENTIONED HISTORICAL FACTS AND

SITUATIONS ARE ONLY SOME OF THE REASONS WHY A MUSLIM

FROM THE MIDDLE EAST MIGHT WANT TO HATE AND EVEN

MURDER AMERICANS AS AN EXPRESSION OF HIS ANGER TOWARDS

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. UNFORTUNATELY SUCH

INDIVIDUALS FAIL TO MAKE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE

U.S.GOVERNMENT AND THE "FRIENDLY, NICE AND POLITICALLY

IGNORANT" AMERICAN PEOPLE WHOM I dearly LOVE.

 

I AM NOT JUSTIFYING THE MURDER OF AMERICANS IN NEW

YORK AND THE PENTAGON. I WANT THE PERPETRATORS OF THIS

MASS MURDER CAUGHT AND PUNISHED. BUT THE U.S.

GOVERNMENT CANNOT WASH ITS HANDS OFF FROM ITS ROLE and

RESPONSIBILITY THAT EXPLAIN THE ROOT CAUSE OF THIS

MISERABLE SITUATION.

 

MORE IMPORTANTLY, AMERICA AND THE WESTERN BLOC OF

NATIONS HAVE NO MORAL OR FACTUAL REASON TO USE LAST

WEEK'S INCIDENTS TO START A WAR AGAINST ISLAM OR THE

ARAB-MUSLIM WORLD!

 

If America and the western bloc of nations do not

recognize the role played by the destructive policies

of the west in alienating the (Muslim) middle eastern

world and refrain from blindly demonizing Islam and

Muslims, it will lead to a very evil and bloody

situation in which all of us will suffer and may even

die.

 

Let us pray that true sense should guide the white man

this time, at least.

 

In the interest of World peace,

 

Yours truly,

Iniyan Elango (alias) R.S.Sridhar