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As warplanes of the world's richest and
most powerful country bombed people in one of the poorest and most
miserable countries on earth, the streets of cities throughout the
Muslim world filled with angry demonstrations. Not only religious
radicals were angry. Almost everybody in the Muslim world opposed the
war.
[Arab demonstrators says:] USA. THE REAL TERRORIST.
The war added fuel to simmering anti-American sentiments in the Middle
East. Bombing Muslim countries and sending U.S. troops into this
volatile region will only inspire more hatred for the United States and
more terrorist attacks on Americans. Bush surely knows this, yet he
decided to go ahead and place us in greater danger anyway.
[U.S. General says:] We never said this war was not going to have costs!
The War on Terrorism cannot possibly end terrorism. Even if bin Laden is
killed, new converts will rally to join his war to drive the U.S. out of
the Middle East. The spiral of violence is escalating dangerously.
And the warmakers on both sides are itching to escalate!
The self-righteous "good vs. evil" rhetoric of the War on Terrorism
sharpens ironies that have long shadowed U.S. pronouncements against
state-sponsored terrorism. President Bush, for instance, promises to
scour the globe in search of states that harbor terrorists.
[Girl says:] He could start in the State of Florida.
[Boy says:] What do you mean?
For over forty years, Miami has served as the base of operations for
well-financed groups of Cuban exiles that have carried out violent
terrorist attacks on Cuba.
Most recently, they bombed a number of Havana tourist spots in 1997,
killing an Italian tourist, and they tried to assassinate Fidel Castro
in Panama in 2000.
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