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Al Raya,
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How 'Mother America'
Acts Like the Soviets
"Today, it's America that wants the world to lead this kind of life: She
wants to be mother to all life and father to the world."
By Dr. Tareq Sheikh
Translated By Ahmed Naoual
August 22, 2007
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- Al Raya - Original Article (Arabic)
America is playing a tune that no one
else in the world understands. She looks at the horizon seeing nothing but her
own reflection, and thinking the world so beautiful. After the Socialist camp's
collapse, she sees a uni-polar world dominated only by the American superpower
I recall before the great collapse, the worst thing about
the wonderful years I spent living under a socialist system was the way the State
controlled everything.
The State
was more your mother than the woman who gave birth to you. It was more than a
father, for it was the State that reared and educated you. It gave you housing
and provided food for all, be you hardworking, indolent or jobless. In return,
the State took away the one thing you cherished most … your brain.
Therefore, the system was subverted by the very people it fed,
nursed and educated. The people of those countries no longer had to live with
competition, which was why the inhabitants of those lands lived longer, were
the least likely to suffer ailments related to high blood pressure and with the
exception of a few, to know the meaning of diabetes.
Today,
it's America that wants the world to lead this
kind of life: She wants to be mother to all life and father to the world.
America wants us to perceive the world as
it does, according to its values and understanding. America would like us to put our brains
in cans and relieve us from having to delve into the meaning of globalization
or to question the chaos that Mother America is sowing around the world. She
wants us to understand things as defined by Washington and not to tax our minds
pondering the meaning of this savage democracy, this savage capitalism, this
unilateral empire poised to devour our entire whole. Mother America is turning
the world into a living hell.
Indeed,
she's an ignorant mother. And because of her ignorance she has been destroying her own converts around the world. She loves
and hates democracy, embracing and distancing herself from it at the same time.
She advocates justice and equality then turns around and suppresses all values
of justice and equality. Our mother advocates creative chaos and then like a
wild bull, demolishes every creative enterprise. America thought we should build a new house here and call it
the Greater Middle East, then turned it into the greatest chaos ever: The
greatest case of comprehensive mass destruction anywhere in the world. "Creative chaos."
To be continued
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