Terrorist have place a nuclear weapon inside a vending machine in a football stadium
where people have gathered to watch the super bowl. Sum of all Fear, a Hollywood
movie based on Tom Clancy’s novel depicts this scene. This is just a scene in a
movie, but in reality there are many angry people who are willing to kill themselves and other innocent people just to make a point about biased US foreign policy.
food, leisure, gossip, fashion, and Hollywood movies that they have little time for
anything else. Even after 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq war the common perception
amongst the people in United States is that the foreign policy of the United States is and has always been rightly guided.
It is true that democracy in United States is much stronger than most other countries and also has checks and balances. However, this does not mean that US can go to another country and super impose their democratic system on that nation. In doing so they may send the nation back to stone age by dropping daisy cutter bombs and killing scores of innocent civilians. According to the Lancet medical journal report published in October 2006 the death toll from US led invasion of Iraq has now reached an estimated 655,000.The report was the work of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. The report has been examined and validated by four separate independent experts. One of the authors, Dr. Gilbert M. Burnham (co-director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at Johns Hopkins) had this to say, "Although such death rates might be common in times of war, the combination of a long duration and tens of millions of people affected has made this the deadliest international conflict of the 21st century and should be of grave concern to everyone". The minimum number of people that have been killed according to the Lancet report is 392,979.
The American people need to raise themselves above the lies of fox news, to find the
truth that the skewed American foreign policy is partly responsible for the carnage in the middle east, and the rest of the world, and the resulting nest of terrorist that are rattling the foundations of our peaceful planet. Now the media is getting ready to create hype that Iran is the next evildoer that needs to be terminated in the name of democracy.
While people die in Africa, because of hunger, starvation, aids, and fighting. While Iraqis sit and wonder who will kill them next ? A bomb from the sky or a suicide bomber? While the Palestinians look towards the sky for help from their misery, while the environment depletes, while the world spends the most($1.6 trillion) it has ever spent on defense; of which US has a share of over $500 billion; on this beautiful Sunday afternoon Americans are busy shopping at the malls, or at the beach or still recovering from their booze effect from the party last night, some are standing in line at MacDonald’s for a quarter pounder, or at Starbucks for a Frappachino, waiting for the evening so that they can go home to watch their favorite team compete in NBA basketball tournament.
landmine affected communities, and ask themselves if they should go out on the street or just in their homes in fear of being blown up by a mine.
Talha Mujaddidi
