An Internationalist Perspective

They say hindsight is a wonderful thing. Why in the name of all that is humane do world leaders not think about it?! Watching a House of Commons Q&A session with Gordon Brown, I noted the amount of MPs who were calling on peers to honour the memories of more British troops killed in Afghanistan. A death, no matter what side it's on, is nothing to celebrate, especially as tragic as a young person with a lot of potential. I was quite taken aback, however, that not one peer called for a withdrawal from Afghanistan! Surely now, the way to avoid more deaths is to take troops. armed to the teeth, out of the country! Similarly, in Iraq, one problem that was kept under control by Saddam was the scetarian killings we seem to be seeing on a daily basis now! If the American and British leaders claim that they invaded these countries to depose dictatorial regimes, can they explain the amount of bloodshed we see in the news on a daily basis?! If democracy is their goal, then why don't they invade Zimbabwe to depose the bloodstained rule of Robert Mugabe? The reason is, simply, because people like Mugabe were put into power by America and Britain, as they suited their neo-capitalist agendas. Can somebody please email me a picture of Queen Elizabeth II with a red neck on her. After all, didn't she award Mugabe with a KNIGHTHOOD!! Removing a knighthood, now that'll surely deter Mugabe's bloodlust! He's been removed from thay exclusive club which contains other dictators and despots such as Sir Mike Jackson, the man who reigned over the British Army occupation of the North of Ireland. Does Whitehall really think that by refusing to play a game of cricket against Zimbabwe, that the dictatorial regime will fall?! The greatest white elephant in the world, the UN will never do anything but sit and talk. The League of Nations crumbled and collapsed after it was clear it was a failure, why so do we still have, after 60 years, the UN?! Ireland is said to be in recession now, so why do us taxpayers still fund this white elephant?! Why has Brian Cowen cut our overseas aid by €45million, denying the people who REALLY need it and putting childrens' lives at risk, whilst he wastes BILLIONS on diplomacy and niceities. Why do Irish troops now occupy a country which has split up because of a colonial war?! Any right thinking person would say we've had 800 years enough of colonial wars!! It is time to put the myth of international terrorism, that Bush and Brown wave over our heads to keep us in a submissive state of fear, as in fact the real terrorists, and those who finance terrorism, are those who sit at the UN, those who dip their hands in the pool of blood being shed in Iraq, Ireland is one of those, and the G8, who talk about increasing aid to €50 billion, but instead spend it on the much needed caviar and champagne they so urgently require at their summits.