As a concerned American watching more and more depressing news reports from the Middle East, I was taken aback when I recently came across some anti-American propaganda.
The Middle East needs to wake up not America. I was happy
when I saw the Arab Spring taking place thinking good for the oppressed finally
throwing off the yokes of tyranny, but now you're standing around waiting for
someone else to put everything together for you and pointing fingers of blame
at one country half way around the world as to why you cannot rise up to the
task of rebuilding your countries and forming governments that are not
oppressive in their own right? America didn’t get formed overnight by a country
on the other side of the planet. We had very little help throwing off our own oppressors,
the real imperialists, England, Spain and France to name a few empires from
history. We were conquests and territories to be played with like pawns in chess.
Once we broke free we didn’t have countries lining up to help us. We had predatory
creditors lending to us to reap profits off the new country, and when they
thought our guard was down they tried to re-establish dominance over us. Yes,
we rose to be a player on the world stage, and I don’t think that happens if
you’re asleep; however, my point is look to yourselves not America to be your nations’
salvation. From the outside you appear to be asleep, replacing bad governments guilty
of torture, theft and murder with worse governments guilty of torture, theft
and murder done with religious fervor. America cannot change your intolerance
and hatred of others or your philosophy of destruction. You must decide to
build instead of destroy, to live instead of die.
