Atlanta | Georgia | USA | August 7
Where’s the Rage?
For the people, taking to the streets, blogging, emailing, writing government officials and so forth is sadly the most we can do but what of our governments? Certainly our governments could do a great deal more than repeat the same, canned message of a “disproportionate” response to the kidnapping of two soldiers. Disproportionate? That’s what this is? Are we really at the point where a nation can openly and indiscriminately ravage civilian targets and aid organizations without some type of consequence? What happened to “never again”? Wasn’t the UN established precisely for the purpose of preventing events like this, Darfur, Srebrenica, and Rwanda? Where’s the rage?
How is it that we allow a single nation to wield enough power that world events happen or are prevented merely because they wish them to? Time and time again, we see wars or terrorism committed in the name of freedom or democracy and we know well that these actions will continuously be repeated yet they are allowed to occur? It is amazing that certain countries are permitted to demand that a state fulfill its obligations to a UN resolution its people created yet that same demanding state has over 50 outstanding UN resolutions it has ignored, some for over 40 years? Where’s the rage?
For those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. We’ve seen Lebanese history played out thirty years after it originally took place. We know well what Israel did and is capable of doing. We know the United States is anything but a “fair broker” in any situation in the Middle East yet, despite all of this, the world turns to the United States for a resolution to the situation. We know the US will not provide a resolution to this situation and will not stop the Israeli assault against the people of Lebanon. Why, then, do we insist on wasting our time and efforts trying to convince them to do otherwise? Why is it that people taking to the streets or to cyberspace are the only ones pushing for any real movement in this current disaster? Aren’t governments supposed to do this? Why are there no official state boycotts of Israeli products? Why are we held captive in the UN Security Council by only one state? Why do we not rise up and demand action be taken? Why do we not ignore the Security Council and enforce a peace in this catastrophe? If the US could blatantly ignore the Security Council to invade and destroy Iraq, certainly we have the authority/responsibility to bypass them to save Lebanon and her people. but there’s not sufficient action on the part of our governments which begs the question; where’s the rage?
August, 07, 2006 9:19 PM