Sep 29 2007
If Wishes Were Horses
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By Anwaar Hussain
9/29/07
If wishes were horses, most Americans would have known that Iraq and Afghanistan are just the latest victims of the colonial behemoth in a continued saga of American imperialism and not any thing else. That throughout its imperialistic expedition, Americans have firmly believed that the United States was God’s chosen nation and, therefore, on course to divine destinies. They would have known Senator Albert J. Beveridge’s speech to Congress that exemplifies this American attitude as nothing else does, “…and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world…” If wishes were horses.
If wishes were horses, most Americans would have known that, consequent to this belief of American leaders, the U.S. had, even before the deployment of troops for the invasion and occupation of Iraq, around 752 military installations located in more than 130 countries with actual American military contingents stationed in 65 different foreign countries. They would have known that like all occupying powers, Americans have around 70,000 U.S. troops in Germany, 40,000 in Japan and about 37,000 in South Korea, where they have been since 1951. Add to it now around 140,000 troops (not counting the 100,000 Blackwater type mercenaries) in Iraq and another 27,000 in Afghanistan and one gets a fair inkling of American’s idea of ‘regeneration of the world’ the American way. If wishes were horses.
If wishes were horses, most Americans would have known that that is THE reason their leaders believe that they could, by divine privilege, take any land they pleased. And that the land on planet earth, not just at home, was rightfully theirs and that every one else was merely squatting on their territory. Historically, therefore, their country has come off as an obstinate nation that would take what it wanted at any cost, 9/11 or no 9/11, the world opinion be damned. They would have known that surpassing by far the brutal ventures typical of European colonizers, the U.S. has, during the past several hundred years, annihilated millions of Native Americans, conquered half of Mexico, occupied Hawaii, subjugated the Philippines and taken the whole of Iraq and Afghanistan butchering a colossal number of the indigenous populations in all these places. If wishes were horses.
If wishes were horses, most Americans would have known that not only has their country rejected a Security Council resolution calling on states to observe international law, their country itself is a leading terrorist state and has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism (in 1986). The ‘War on Terror’, therefore, is unwinnable because America needs to then declare a war on its own self and that it won’t. If wishes were horses.
If wishes were horses, most Americans would have known that if by ‘terrorism’ only the ‘terrorism of others’ is meant then bombing the countries from where those terrorists come is not the solution to the problem but in fact a part of the problem. For if that had been the case the British would have bombed Belfast for IRA’s bombing of London and one earlier American administration would have bombed Timothy McVeigh’s home town for Oklahoma bombing. They did not. If wishes were horses.
If wishes were horses, most Americans would have known the sordid history of their country’s contemptuous attitude toward smaller countries of this planet. They would have known, for example, that back in the 80s, a tiny country by the name of Nicaragua was subjected to violent assault by their country in which tens of thousands of people died with that country itself substantially destroyed. They would have known that rather than responding by setting off bombs in Washington, a la the American way, the poor Nicaraguans went to the World Court that ordered the U.S. not only to stop the atrocities but also to pay reparations. The U.S. scornfully responded by escalating the attacks. The Nicaraguans next went to the Security Council who ruled in their favor. The U.S. derisively vetoed the resolution. The Nicaraguans then obtained a similar resolution from the General Assembly. The U.S. and Israel opposed that one for two years in a row. If wishes were horses.
If wishes were horses, most Americans would have known that the world does not hate them for the values cherished by them; it rather aspires for the same. It abhors their duplicitous attitude, their hypocritical behavior and their cruel conduct on the world stage. It loathes them for their ‘freedom’ cries while sitting atop massive piles of human corpses. It despises their double embrace of the dictators the world over while singing sweet ‘democracies’ to their subjects. It hates them for their ruthless killing of half a million Iraqi children and then calling the effort, “worth the price”. If wishes were horses.
If wishes were horses, most Americans would have known that the whole world is cognizant of the horrible injustice to the Palestinians and America’s blind allegiance to the perpetrators. And that their bosom buddy Israel invaded the West Bank and Gaza 35 years ago and over the course of these 35 years Israel has killed, blinded, mutilated, crippled and disfigured thousands of men, women and children, destroyed thousands of homes, businesses, hospitals, and schools, incarcerated and tortured hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. If wishes were horses.
If wishes were horses, most Americans would have known that over the years they have become too strong for their own good. They are all muscle and sinew now and no brains. They would have known that with the deadly, single minded purpose of a troll, they trample on through the blood and bones of their diabolical administrations’ innocent victims without hearing their cries. They would have known what their great country has come down to. They would have heard the windy, lonely, desperate last cries of the soul of America across its forlorn skies each night as it continues to crash into black nothingness;
Oh! Oh! This fiery height!
Oh, my feet of fire!
My burning feet of fire
(Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo)
If wishes were horses.
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There is a high percentage probability that your Nation is either Mystery Babylon or The Beast of Revelation spurned on by a segment of Politcal Religious False Prophets or The Beast & the False Prophet.
Jesus never spoke about there being any Christian Nations. Jesus taught his Father’s Spiritual Kingdom that is not of the world of man. A Spiritual Kingdom is not a Republic, Representative Republic, Constitutional Republic, or a Democracy.
The Book of Revelation is filled with many various Beast Kingdoms/Nations, or Empires of men that will eventually turn upon one another. God will also put it into the minds of men to burn Mystery Babylon in one hour which sounds like the possibility of a nuclear attack.
Should that end up being so, that your Nation is either Mystery Babylon or the Beast of Revelation then God doesn’t have any love for your Nation at all.
Since the U.N. is located in your Nation I consider your Nation highly likely to be Mystery Babylon that builds the globalist system of the Beast which includes man’s political world, business world, religious world, and educational world.
Thomas Paine was one of the greatest Englishmen ever to live. He was not only a Republican but his political views had more influence on British radical politics than Karl Marx, another great progressive. Paine advocated the creation of a National Health service over 200 years ago. The British Labour Party implemented Pains dream in 1948, it is the greatest piece of social legislation ever carried out in our country and has saved millions of working class lives. The United States, your country. still has a privatised health systems that can even banrupt millionaires. Paine was also opposed to the hereditary system of Government, therefore he was opposed to the monarchy. Shamefully Britain still adheres to this reactionary, parasitical form of Government. Paine was also opposed to all established religions because he regarded, quite rightly, that such religions were the enemy of reason and progress. Paine believed that the idea of a higher being was to be seen in the very Earth and Universe that we live in. Many British political thinkers regard Paine as a liberal, however, I do not subscribe to this. I believe that in todays political terminology he should be regarded as a Democratic Socialist. I hope that this is an interesting view of the great man.
Thomas Paine was one of the greatest Englishmen ever to live. He was not only a Republican but his political views had more influence on British radical politics than Karl Marx, another great progressive. Paine advocated the creation of a National Health service over 200 years ago. The British Labour Party implemented Paines dream in 1948, it is the greatest piece of social legislation ever carried out in our country and has saved millions of working class lives. The United States, your country. still has a privatised health systems that can even banrupt millionaires. Paine was also opposed to the hereditary system of Government, therefore he was opposed to the monarchy. Shamefully Britain still adheres to this reactionary, parasitical form of Government. Paine was also opposed to all established religions because he regarded, quite rightly, that such religions were the enemy of reason and progress. Paine believed that the idea of a higher being was to be seen in the very Earth and Universe that we live in. Many British political thinkers regard Paine as a liberal, however, I do not subscribe to this. I believe that in todays political terminology he should be regarded as a Democratic Socialist. I hope that this is an interesting view of the great man.
A terrific post, Sean. It lucidly captures the quintessence of Tom Paine, and what a great Englishman he was and IS, as his work lives on in the work of compassionate, truly democratic people all over the world. And yes, Paine could hardly be characterized as a liberal. He’d have been rooting for Chavez and all anti-imperial struggles these days, as he was in his time. One of the great curiosities of the British race is that having disposed of a king fully a century before the french, they didn’t go on to establish a true republic and kept a system that whitewashes class mentality, privilege, and feudal-bourgeois parasitism. My Irish friends tell me that the Brits can be characterized as temperamentally “radical conservatives” or “Conservative radicals.” They can be as radical as the Russkies or the French, but when it comes to certain things they prefer continuity, or the symbol thereof.