almost ten years ago I wrote this editorial, and I still like:
With God on their side? Andrés
Capelin (Comcosur - 23/10/2001)
Caramba! I know, terrorism is a method of struggle. Repugnant and reprehensible, yes, but a method of struggle and not an ideology. How is then to "fight terrorism"? In fact, the U.S. has declared war a ciertos terroristas, concretamente a los fundamentalistas islámicos afganos. Del terrorismo indonesio sobre varias minorías, o del terrorismo del Estado de Israel sobre los palestinos, no ha dicho nada. Durante los años 70, el gobierno de los Estados Unidos impulsó a las dictaduras de América Latina a combatir lo que ellos definían como "terrorismo izquierdista" mediante el Terrorismo de Estado. Lo mismo hizo Felipe González en España cuando creó los GAL para combatir a la ETA; y cuando un kamikaze palestino se hace explotar en una calle de Jerusalén, Israel responde bombardeando ciudades en la franja de Gaza. De esos terrorismos Bush no dice nada.
Por su parte, Osama Bin Laden ha dicho que "Estados Unidos has supported the killing of many victims and got what they deserved with the attacks on New York and Washington, the U.S. is full of fear. Thank God for what you're going at this time. It's just a little bit of what we live for decades. "Now President Bush has ordered massive attacks on Afghanistan to respond to these terrorist attacks of September 11. As an immediate response, Suleiman Abu Gehiz, representative of al-Qaeda, called holy war against Jews and Americans, "a war" between those who believe in God and the wicked. "It's funny: both claim to have" God on your side ", but both seek to combat terrorism with more terrorism. Which holy book is written that? I think that if God is everywhere, in the end is nowhere.
Bin Laden said that when America dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and when he bombed Iraq, the voices now condemn the demolition of the twin towers did not rise. Is wrong. Many voices were raised condemning the U.S. terrorist attacks in Japan, Vietnam, Latin America and Iraq. Today the same voices condemning the bombing of Afghanistan, but also condemn the attacks of 11 September. Because if you do the same to your enemies, after all you like them. And you Bin Laden, you were until recently stepson of those who now say hate, you are equal to those we say fight. In the pantheon of history, no doubt occupy a place in the gallery of the infamous, along with Lyndon Johnson, George Bush, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pol Pot, Pinochet, Duvalier, and many others.
Because the fall of the twin towers did not just affect the warmongers in Washington, has affected the whole human species. Thank you, now we are all exposed to terror: the responsible and innocent offenders and victims. At any time, any place, millions of innocent people at risk of being compromised in a relentless struggle that-also- is not for freedom or for social justice, but to impose a religion that has different names, but in the background is only the religion of money. Millions of innocent people worldwide now suffer the consequences of the war economy and increase unemployment and hunger.
Ever occur to you to use all those hundreds of millions of dollars that have (and on the other hand I can not believe they are the fruit of honest work) to create jobs for the Afghan people do not starve? No, instead bought weapons to wage holy war and kill people as innocent as your former buddies Americans killed in Baghdad. You're just to them, they invoke Allah that is useless. We will not believe.
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