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 No American has ever cried over millions of people
who die every day in Third World Countries,
victims (directly or indirectly) of American foreign policies
designed to keep America on top. They think they are
poor victims who have been attacked for no reason
and that's why they have been asking
so insistently for retaliation.
By Dione Rocha
I could not sit and watch the one-sided views on the attacks America has suffered last
week. The non-American view of that fact leads us to the effects that the attacks
themselves and possible retaliation may have on Brazil (and other countries, of course).
That's why I decided to write the article below.
The first thing one must ask now is what a Brazilian has to do with the attacks that
have just happened in NYC and Washington D.C.? My answer is that the attacks do affect
Brazil, all the other nations in the world and the further effects of them on humanity
will depend on the American response to them.
To show America's power through an armed conflict is a childish and not very
intelligent reaction, and makes no sense for a number of reasons. One is that most of
Afghanistan's population know nothing but hunger and misery caused by two decades of war.
They do not have a clue as to what " The Taliban" or "New York" is, so
remote are they from what we call "civilization". Those people are just as
innocent as the people who were killed in the towers of the WTC.
Second is that whoever is responsible for the attacks, is ready to respond to
retaliation with even bigger and unexpected force. No one is going to tease a giant and
not expect a reaction. Further yet, knowing that the giant will react, any being with a
minimum of intelligence would have an even bigger (and worse) surprise for later.
Responding violently to the attacks will just generate an endless chain of violence that
will result in loss for humanity as a whole.
Also, we have to consider every face of the subject. No American has ever cried over
the millions of people who die every day in Third World Countries, victims (directly or
indirectly) of American foreign policies designed to keep America on top. The average
American is not able to see that. They are not supposed to see that link. That is why they
think they are poor victims who have been attacked for no reason and that is why they have
been asking so insistently for retaliation.
The attack upon a member of the United Nations should be considered as an attack upon
all. Who guarantees that if Brazil had been attacked, the States would give us their
support? More than once before America turned its back on the interests of humanity in
order to serve its own interests. They want us to stop polluting, but they keep on
polluting in order to maintain the growth of their economy. They give us the hypocritical
speech of tolerance, but when they are asked to do the same, the president leaves an
International Conference Against Racism.
Before World War II, Europe was what America is now. The parents of my generation
studied French at school. In a couple of decades, America may no longer be what it is. And
the same way I had to learn how to speak English in order to achieve better positions in
an "Americanized" world, who knows what language my children will have to learn
at school? And one day, tired of suffering under the feet of a ruling country, America may
be seen as terrorist, and they will want their reasons to be heard.
Dione Rocha is a Brazilian communications major concerned about social
issues. You can contact the author at dionerocha@hotmail.com
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