This article shows the contradictions in how we behave, Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi merited the Nobel peace Prize and were applauded by our leaders. Yet the directand brutal results of our actions are ignored.
The unmanned aircraft released its deadly payload onto the Rehman family, and in an instant the lives of these children were transformed into a nightmare of pain, confusion and terror. Seven children were wounded, and Nabila's grandmother was killed before her eyes, an act for which no apology, explanation or justification has ever been given.
Nabila and her family were roundly ignored. At the congressional hearing where they gave testimony, only five out of 430 representatives showed up. In the words of Nabila's father to those few who did attend: "My daughter does not have the face of a terrorist and neither did my mother. It just doesn't make sense to me, why this happened… as a teacher, I wanted to educate Americans and let them know my children have been injured."
Just try and forget in this election year as many in the rest of the world really could not care less about our own internal squabbling, just stop for a second and see how this my be percieved by the people we menace every day for our own "security".
Tellingly, many of those who took up her name and image as a symbol of the justness of American military action in the Muslim world did not even care enough to listen to her own words or feelings about the subject.
So the next time you hear one of our own pompous warmongering assholes asking
"Why do they hate us?"
Show them the body count and our contempt.
The five that bothered to turn up?
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), were Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Rep. Rick Nolan (D-Minn.).
We rightly applaud Malala Yousafzai for her immense bravery, but what are we doing for the rest of her fellow citizens?
We rightly applaud Kailash Satyarthi for his immense courage in taking on slavery and indentured servitude, yet do we look at the things we buy and how they were made?
Try looking through other peoples eyes before asking the eternally idiotic
"Why do they hate us?"
Do we show consistency?
Do we actually care about anything than our own comfort/cost savings when choosing what we buy?
We should really take a tally of the carnage we have caused by both our military and our corporations, then we can probably answer
"Why do they hate us?"
On our own and come up with a better question
"What are we going to do about it?"
Move along, look forward not back, that is hard to do when your dreams are full of blood.
Just a thought