Wednesday, November 3, 2010

A new nose for Aisha



(Dedicated to my son Cesar, who does not like the Yankee Empire)
This case definitely calls my attention.
This is Aisha, a girl from Afghanistan to whom her family, allegedly allied to the Taliban, crippled by cutting her nose off, for alleged honor offenses. The case has been taken as its own by the massive U.S. propaganda machine. TIME magazine (which I have been reading the last 40 years without a hiccup) put her out in the cover with the misleading title: What happens if we leave Afghanistan?. 
The machine to detect fallacies that - probably because of professional bias - I have in mind, switches on to alert mode: here is a lie. 
The U.S. is trying to justify their presence in Afghanistan for humanitarian reasons, to save the poo girl from tribal barbarism. Nothing is more false, the U.S. is causing massive death and destruction in Afghanistan for purely military reasons (to show their power, to oil the machinery of war) and vengeance (still the Twin Towers), not because it is threatened by Afghasitán nor, much less, on compassionate grounds. Communism defeated , we must seek new external enemies. Fear of the American population to these imaginary enemies keeps it subdued.
We can reformulate the question: What would happen if we leave Afghanistan? and then put the face of a child burned by napalm from a missile shot by a pilotless plane driven by a guy who has a 9 to 5 workday in California (yes, the war is conducted like this today.) What would happen if they leave Afghanistan is that it would prevent many deaths of innocent people. No mutilation, death.
As the issue has captured the popular imagination, an American foundation, the Grossman Burn, has taken over and has operated the nose. Very compassionate, yes sir, and well suited to the official propaganda. All this has been echoed by the CNN Vancouver Sun and Daily Beast.
In short, do not believe the official propaganda, they want to fool you.
And now, what do you think?

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