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Letter sent to my University newspaper CM LIFE on September 26, 2001,
I would like to express my deepest sorrow of the terrible thing that has happened to the American people. Terrorism is always an act that can be described only by craziness. I was always saying that we should separate the innocent American people from the non-innocent American government.
It is true though that most of the American people are ignorant about U.S. foreign policy and politics in general. Judging from the last presidential campaign only 48 percent of U.S. citizens had the free time to choose their next leader! I think now that percentage would have been higher.
Twenty-seven years ago, Turkey invaded Cyprus and my family lost all property and belongings from the terrorist acts of another nation, which is still today supported militarily and financially by the U.S.
The U.S. media presents the intervention in foreign countries as the heroic innocent and correct one, and all the others are evil or terrorists. The CIA has supported so many dictatorships in Latin America, Africa and many other places in the world. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the genocide of Native Americans, the killing of civilians in Vietnam, the depleted uranium in the Balkans as well as the Gulf War’s (chemical) scandal are some examples, and yet they appear to be the protectors of democracy and liberty.
Any country that disagrees with the U.S. foreign policy is punished with air strikes while Turkey and Israel, which are every year on the Top List of Human Rights violations, never get punished. The international law has been forgotten and international justice has lost its meaning. That is why the United Nations’ role has been deliberately diminished.
I have to be honest with you that most of the people around the world are not in love with U.S. officials. In fact they hate them. Believe me that they didn't wake up one day and say that today we will hate the American government. They have suffered from the unjust decisions of your government. They have lost brothers or mothers or their wives were raped. Your government is spreading terrorism, too, around the world. You just don't know about it because your networks show the one side of the story. The facts speak by themselves. After all, bin Laden was first trained by the CIA.
Things will get worse now with the attack of the U.S. on Afghanistan. Afghanistan is full of mountains and it’s not like the desert of Iraq. Believe me, you will lose a lot of innocent young American soldiers there. More than you will ever think about and more than what they will show you. President Bush is really acting on the basis of revenge, having no clear thinking.
When you hit somebody you should expect that they we will hit you back. Terrorism is caused by terrorism. The solution: The U.S. government should leave the nations alone. It should stop imposing policies on other nations and let the United Nations and the Security Council enforce international law based on true justice.
All this fighting, my friends, is not about hate or terrorism, but about money. There is no respect of human rights in general and the multinationals care about their millions, not about the millions of people who lose their lives on the battlefield.
Your answer should be no more war because believe me it will give you more victims, more sorrow and more problems.
I would like to express my deepest sorrow of the terrible thing that has happened to the American people. Terrorism is always an act that can be described only by craziness. I was always saying that we should separate the innocent American people from the non-innocent American government.
It is true though that most of the American people are ignorant about U.S. foreign policy and politics in general. Judging from the last presidential campaign only 48 percent of U.S. citizens had the free time to choose their next leader! I think now that percentage would have been higher.
Twenty-seven years ago, Turkey invaded Cyprus and my family lost all property and belongings from the terrorist acts of another nation, which is still today supported militarily and financially by the U.S.
The U.S. media presents the intervention in foreign countries as the heroic innocent and correct one, and all the others are evil or terrorists. The CIA has supported so many dictatorships in Latin America, Africa and many other places in the world. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the genocide of Native Americans, the killing of civilians in Vietnam, the depleted uranium in the Balkans as well as the Gulf War’s (chemical) scandal are some examples, and yet they appear to be the protectors of democracy and liberty.
Any country that disagrees with the U.S. foreign policy is punished with air strikes while Turkey and Israel, which are every year on the Top List of Human Rights violations, never get punished. The international law has been forgotten and international justice has lost its meaning. That is why the United Nations’ role has been deliberately diminished.
I have to be honest with you that most of the people around the world are not in love with U.S. officials. In fact they hate them. Believe me that they didn't wake up one day and say that today we will hate the American government. They have suffered from the unjust decisions of your government. They have lost brothers or mothers or their wives were raped. Your government is spreading terrorism, too, around the world. You just don't know about it because your networks show the one side of the story. The facts speak by themselves. After all, bin Laden was first trained by the CIA.
Things will get worse now with the attack of the U.S. on Afghanistan. Afghanistan is full of mountains and it’s not like the desert of Iraq. Believe me, you will lose a lot of innocent young American soldiers there. More than you will ever think about and more than what they will show you. President Bush is really acting on the basis of revenge, having no clear thinking.
When you hit somebody you should expect that they we will hit you back. Terrorism is caused by terrorism. The solution: The U.S. government should leave the nations alone. It should stop imposing policies on other nations and let the United Nations and the Security Council enforce international law based on true justice.
All this fighting, my friends, is not about hate or terrorism, but about money. There is no respect of human rights in general and the multinationals care about their millions, not about the millions of people who lose their lives on the battlefield.
Your answer should be no more war because believe me it will give you more victims, more sorrow and more problems.
Michael Pouros Central Michigan University Alumnus BSBA 1998 and MBA 2000
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