 Selama puluhan tahun, Amerika telah menghabiskan puluhan triliunan dolar AS untuk mengembangkan teknologi pembunuh massal yang tidak pernah terbayangkan sebelumnya. Lebih dari 60 persen belanja riset dihabiskan untuk sektor militer. Berbagai institusi riset dan universitas terkenal seperti MIT, Carnegie Mellon, dan Stanford ikut terlibat di dalamnya. Kesemuanya itu dilakukan bukan semata-mata untuk pertahanan dalam negeri, tetapi untuk tujuan politik dominasi yang dilakukan Amerika terhadap bangsa-bangsa lain. Tumbangnya rezim komunisme tidak mengurangi upaya Amerika menciptakan jenis senjata baru. Justru penciptaan teknologi pemusnah semakin intensif untuk mendukung legitimasi kekuatan politik Amerika di segala penjuru dunia.
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 | ada suatu hal yang sebetulnya menjadi pikiran gua selama ini... apa sih yang akan terjadi jika semua penduduk dunia yang anti-amerika.. ikut aja dengan apa yang Amerika inginkan? toh Amerika gak bermaksud membunuh manusia-manusia yang sudah nurut kepada mereka kan?
Gua anti-Amerika (politis) tapi gua males juga memposisikan diri sebagai MUSUH Amerika, karena dengan posisi itu.. maka posisi Amerika sebagai PAHLAWAN semakin jaya. Kita semua ingat.. ketika Sovyet runtuh, bukan oleh serangan atau bantaian senjata Amerika.. tapi oleh rakyatnya sendiri. Saat itu Amerika tidak BISA klaim sebagai pahlawan.. Yang ada.. Amerika seperti anak koboy yang penuh atribut.. sedang bergaya bak jagoan tapi gak punya lawan Indian. Kondisi tersebut malah menjadikan Amerika spt konyol.
Lepas dari konflik bebuyutan dengan Sovyet, Amerika butuh "musuh" baru.. Timur Tengah adalah sasaran empuk, mengingat mereka tetangga Israel. Sejak itulah Amerika seperti mengusik prajurit dan warga Timur Tengah utk berkelahi. Dengan cara itu.. Amerika punya ALASAN untuk menyerang, bahkan membantai musuhnya. Begitu terus modusnya.
Nah.. dengan melihat gejala tersebut. Apa iya kita musti "melawan" tirani Amerika dengan cara yang kemaren2? Mati konyol? mengandalkan doa dan mukjizat? Saya koq masih berfikir.. untuk mengalahkan anak kecil yang banyak gaya.. yaitu dengan satu cara: Anggap dia gak ada.
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 | i like they way you see this problem, tul. but some other people would prefer fighting back the imperium as the quick solution. anyway, we have to distingusih american state from american society. the former sucks, the other one is really amazing. so no need to hate american people. |
 | rostati wrote on Aug 15, '06, edited on Aug 15, '06  Apa iya kita musti "melawan" tirani Amerika dengan cara yang kemaren2? Mati konyol? mengandalkan doa dan mukjizat? Saya koq masih berfikir.. untuk mengalahkan anak kecil yang banyak gaya.. yaitu dengan satu cara: Anggap dia gak ada.  Interesting :) |
 | moyas wrote on Aug 16, '06 Nah.. dengan melihat gejala tersebut. Apa iya kita musti "melawan" tirani Amerika dengan cara yang kemaren2? Mati konyol? mengandalkan doa dan mukjizat? Saya koq masih berfikir.. untuk mengalahkan anak kecil yang banyak gaya.. yaitu dengan satu cara: Anggap dia gak ada. atau make M.O. yang beda: non-violence movement. gue sendiri sebenarnya strongly prefere this method, karena di berbagai daerah konflik lainnya di dunia (termasuk di Amerika ketika jaman civil rights movement), cara ini membuahkan hasil. |
| moyas wrote on Aug 16, '06, edited on Aug 16, '06 Bagaimanapun kekerasan adalah sesuatu yang harus dikutuk. Tidak ada satupun bangsa di dunia yang berhak melakukan tindakan kekerasan atas nama apapun. Tidak bagi Amerika, juga tidak bagi kelompok-kelompok anti-Amerika.
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good job, although if it were me, i'd emphasize this some more. considering your opinion was published in Republika, takutnya kebanyakan pembaca hanya kosentrasi di bagian-bagian atas artikel dan bergumam: "tuh kan, bukan salah kita, emang amerikanya begitu"
Secanggih apapun teknologi pertahanan yang diciptakan oleh Amerika tidak akan menghilangkan terorisme. Terorisme lahir sebagai akibat dari konflik politik, bukan teknologi.
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Another good point, although no one (give me a recent popular book, author, journalist, or scholar you know who's written along similar line) see it quite from this angle that you wrote. mereka menyorot masalah terorisme hanya dari sudut politik dengan memojokkan para teroris. teknologi diberitakan sambil lalu sebagai alat yang dikembangkan utk menangkal aksi-aksi terorisme di masa depan.
Satu-satunya cara agar warga Amerika senantiasa aman dari ancaman terorisme adalah dengan mengubah orientasi politik dominasi Amerika. Masyarakat dunia tidak membenci Amerika. Amerikalah yang membuat masyarakat dunia membenci dirinya. Sudah saatnya Amerika sadar bahwa dunia ini tidak sederhana. Hanya dengan mengapresiasi perbedaan yang ada Amerika dapat hidup damai bersama bangsa-bangsa yang lain.
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Here I disagree. Ini bukan satu-satunya cara. Yang berseberangan dengan AS juga bisa lebih proaktif meningkatkan leveragenya juga utk bisa se-level dgn AS dan menyetir orientasi politik dan hegemoni AS. Plus, you can't expect the US to do this by itself, at least not in our lifetime. |
| moyas wrote on Aug 16, '06 american state specifically the institutions of executive power in the american state. otherwise, they have a pretty good check and balance mechanism in place. |
 | paling aman menurut gue sih , menganggap bahwa amerika itu tidak digdaya dan juga kalau bisa mengubah pendapat dimata masyarakat (indonesia, maksud gue) bahwa Amerika itu superpower, bisa mandiri dan sebagainya.Banyak dari masyarakat kita yang tidak terbukakan dengan kondisi dalam negeri amerika itu sendiri, kondisi ekonomi mereka yang tergantung juga dari negara lain., dsb, dst.Semakin kita mengenal budaya mereka, semakin kita tahu mana yang lebih nyata dan jujur.bukan begitu bang sul ? |
 | adijm wrote on Aug 17, '06 Bagaimanapun kekerasan adalah sesuatu yang harus dikutuk. Tidak ada satupun bangsa di dunia yang berhak melakukan tindakan kekerasan atas nama apapun. Tidak bagi Amerika, juga tidak bagi kelompok-kelompok anti-Amerika.
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good job, although if it were me, i'd emphasize this some more. considering your opinion was published in Republika, takutnya kebanyakan pembaca hanya kosentrasi di bagian-bagian atas artikel dan bergumam: "tuh kan, bukan salah kita, emang amerikanya begitu" kekhawatiran "moyas" tentang cara sebegian pembaca Republika beralasan. tapi cara bang Sulfikar memilih Republika buat tulisan kali ini juga beralasan. suara menyerang kebijakan administrasi Bush memang suara koran ini. tapi bang Sul udah menjelaskan posisi dia thd kekerasan pada paragraf di atas ... |
| adijm wrote on Aug 17, '06, edited on Aug 17, '06 ini komentar dari sisi orang muslim. sebagian orang muslim memang bersikap reaktif dan ekstrim pada dominasi amrik. seringkali mereka sampai kehilangan nalar sehat menentukan medan tempur, seperti kasus2 pemboman di Indonesia yang, kalau saya bilang, kehilangan konteks dan cerminan sikap dan pemikiran liar dan "maksa".
sementara itu bersikap seolah amrik (plus network-nya) itu enggak ada juga enggak tepat. kenyataannya dominasi ekonomi dan politik mereka memang ada kok. jadi waspada pada gerak-gerik amrik mesti terus ada. kalau ini hilang, malah gampang masuk perangkap mereka. hanya saja jangan mengerahkan keseluruhan kesadaran untuk membangun "sensor ketakutan" pada faktor eksternal. yang lebih penting itu membangun kemandirian negeri-negeri muslim secara cepat dan serempak.
maaf saya masuk ke masalah negeri-negeri muslim. sekedar meresonansi tulisan bang Sulfikar di atas. |
| moyas wrote on Aug 17, '06 sementara itu bersikap seolah amrik (plus network-nya) itu enggak ada juga enggak tepat. kenyataannya dominasi ekonomi dan politik mereka memang ada kok. jadi waspada pada gerak-gerik amrik mesti terus ada. kalau ini hilang, malah gampang masuk perangkap mereka. hanya saja jangan mengerahkan keseluruhan kesadaran untuk membangun "sensor ketakutan" pada faktor eksternal. yang lebih penting itu membangun kemandirian negeri-negeri muslim secara cepat dan serempak. saya setuju dengan bung adijm soal kalimat pertama. tapi kalimat terakhir, hhm itu juga bisa dibilang angan2 belaka. setiap negara (muslim atau bukan) punya kepentingan nasionalnya masing-masing. Saudi Arabia menanam modal yang tidak sedikit di AS, tapi apakah selalu menggunakan pengaruhnya utk kepentingan negara2 muslim? ngga juga. begitu juga kepentingan libya tidak bakal mudah diseragamkan dengan kepentingan malaysia. jadi membangun kemandirian secara cepat dan serempak sulit diwujudkan. dengan medium organisasi multilateral spt OKI sekalipun (brp tahun coba OKI sudah berdiri). mengimbangi kekuatan dan hegemoni AS bisa dengan banyak cara. kalau kita mau turut serta, harus punya strategi nasional gimana bisa jadi wasit di tengah bangsa-bangsa dunia. |
 | artikel-2 seperti ini apakah bisa mempengaruhi kebijakan teknologi USA yang disebut cenderung violence itu?
The Shame of Being an American
By Paul Craig Roberts
Gentle reader, do you know that Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon? Israel has ordered all the villagers to clear out. Israel then destroys their homes and murders the fleeing villagers. That way there is no one to come back and nothing to which to return, making it easier for Israel to grab the territory, just as Israel has been stealing Palestine from the Palestinians.
Do you know that one-third of the Lebanese civilians murdered by Israel’s attacks on civilian residential districts are children? That is the report from Jan Egeland, the emergency relief coordinator for the UN. He says it is impossible for help to reach the wounded and those buried in rubble, because Israeli air strikes have blown up all the bridges and roads. Considering how often (almost always) Israel misses Hizbollah targets and hits civilian ones, one might think that Israeli fire is being guided by US satellites and US military GPS. Don’t be surprised at US complicity. Why would the puppet be any less evil than the puppet master?
Of course, you don’t know these things, because the US print and TV media do not report them.
Because Bush is so proud of himself, you do know that he has blocked every effort to stop the Israeli slaughter of Lebanese civilians. Bush has told the UN "NO." Bush has told the European Community "NO." Bush has told the pro-American Lebanese prime minister "NO." Twice. Bush is very proud of his firmness. He is enjoying Israel’s rampage and wishes he could do the same thing in Iraq.
Does it make you a Proud American that "your" president gave Israel the green light to drop bombs on convoys of villagers fleeing from Israeli shelling, on residential neighborhoods in the capital of Beirut and throughout Lebanon, on hospitals, on power plants, on food production and storage, on ports, on civilian airports, on bridges, on roads, on every piece of infrastructure on which civilized life depends?
Are you a Proud American? Or are you an Israeli puppet?
On July 20, "your" House of Representatives voted 410-8 in favor of Israel’s massive war crimes in Lebanon. Not content with making every American complicit in war crimes, "your" House of Representatives, according to the Associated Press, also "condemns enemies of the Jewish state."
Who are the "enemies of the Jewish state"?
They are the Palestinians whose land has been stolen by the Jewish state, whose homes and olive groves have been destroyed by the Jewish state, whose children have been shot down in the streets by the Jewish state, whose women have been abused by the Jewish state. They are Palestinians who have been walled off into ghettos, who cannot reach their farm lands or medical care or schools, who cannot drive on roads through Palestine that have been constructed for Israelis only. They are Palestinians whose ancient towns have been invaded by militant Zionist "settlers" under the protection of the Israeli army who beat and persecute the Palestinians and drive them out of their towns. They are Palestinians who cannot allow their children outside their homes because they will be murdered by Israeli "settlers."
The Palestinians who confront Israeli evil are called "terrorists." When Bush forced free elections on Palestine, the people voted for Hamas. Hamas is the organization that has stood up to the Jewish state. This means, of course, that Hamas is evil, anti-Semitic, un-American and terrorist. The US and Israel responded by cutting off all funds to the new government. Democracy is permitted only if it produces the results Bush and Israel want.
Israelis never practice terror. Only those who are in Israel’s way are terrorists.
Another enemy of the Jewish state is Hizbollah. Hizbollah is a militia of Shia Muslims created in 1982 when Israel first invaded Lebanon. During this invasion the great moral Jewish state arranged for the murder of refugees in refugee camps. The result of Israel’s atrocities was Hizbollah, which fought the Israeli army, defeated it, and drove it, with its Satanic tail between its legs, out of Lebanon. Today Hizbollah not only defends southern Lebanon but also provides social services such as orphanages and medical care.
To cut to the chase, the enemies of the Jewish state are any Muslim country not ruled by an American puppet friendly to Israel. Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the oil emirates have sided with Israel against their own kind, because they are dependent either on American money or on American protection from their own people. Sooner or later these totally corrupt governments that do not represent the people they rule will be overthrown. It is only a matter of time.
Indeed Bush and Israel may be hastening the process in their frantic effort to overthrow the governments of Syria and Iran. Both governments have more popular support than Bush has, but the White House Moron doesn’t know this. The Moron thinks Syria and Iran will be "cakewalks" like Iraq, where ten proud divisions of the US military are tied down by a few lightly armed insurgents.
If you are still a Proud American, consider that your pride is doing nothing good for Israel or for America.
On July 20 when "your" House of Representatives, following "your" US Senate, passed the resolution in support of Israel’s war crimes, the most powerful lobby in Washington, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), quickly got out a press release proclaiming "The American people overwhelming support Israel’s war on terrorism and understand that we must stand by our closest ally in this time of crisis."
The truth is that Israel created the crisis by invading a country with a pro-American government. The truth is that the American people do not support Israel’s war crimes, as the CNN quick poll results make clear and as was made clear by callers into C-Span.
Despite the Israeli spin on news provided by US "reporting," a majority of Americans do not approve of Israeli atrocities against Lebanese civilians. Hizbollah is located in southern Lebanon. If Israel is targeting Hizbollah, why are Israeli bombs falling on northern Lebanon? Why are they falling on Beirut? Why are they falling on civilian airports? On schools and hospitals?
Now we arrive at the main point. When the US Senate and House of Representatives pass resolutions in support of Israeli war crimes and condemn those who resist Israeli aggression, the Senate and House confirm Osama bin Laden’s propaganda that America stands with Israel against the Arab and Muslim world.
Indeed, Israel, which has one of the world’s largest per capita incomes, is the largest recipient of US foreign aid. Many believe that much of this "aid" comes back to AIPAC, which uses it to elect "our" representatives in Congress.
This perception is no favor to Israel, whose population is declining, as the smart ones have seen the writing on the wall and have been leaving. Israel is surrounded by hundreds of millions of Muslims who are being turned into enemies of Israel by Israel’s actions and inhumane policies.
The hope in the Muslim world has always been that the United States would intervene in behalf of compromise and make Israel realize that Israel cannot steal Palestine and turn every Palestinian into a refugee.
This has been the hope of the Arab world. This is the reason our puppets have not been overthrown. This hope is the reason America still had some prestige in the Arab world.
The House of Representatives resolution, bought and paid for by AIPAC money, is the final nail in the coffin of American prestige in the Middle East. It shows that America is, indeed, Israel’s puppet, just as Osama bin Laden says, and as a majority of Muslims believe.
With hope and diplomacy dead, henceforth America and Israel have only tooth and claw. The vaunted Israeli army could not defeat a rag tag militia in southern Lebanon. The vaunted US military cannot defeat a rag tag, lightly armed, insurgency drawn from a minority of the population in Iraq, insurgents, moreover, who are mainly engaged in civil war against the Shia majority.
What will the US and its puppet master do? Both are too full of hubris and paranoia to admit their terrible mistakes. Israel and the US will either destroy from the air the civilian infrastructure of Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Iran so that civilized life becomes impossible for Muslims, or the US and Israel will use nuclear weapons to intimidate Muslims into acquiescence to Israel’s desires.
Muslim genocide in one form or another is the professed goal of the neoconservatives who have total control over the Bush administration. Neocon godfather Norman Podhoretz has called for World War IV (in neocon thinking WW III was the cold war) to overthrow Islam in the Middle East, deracinate the Islamic religion and turn it into a formalized, secular ritual.
Rumsfeld’s neocon Pentagon has drafted new US war doctrine that permits pre-emptive nuclear attack on non-nuclear states.
Neocon David Horowitz says that by slaughtering Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, "Israel is doing the work of the rest of the civilized world," thus equating war criminals with civilized men.
Neocon Larry Kudlow says that "Israel is doing the Lord’s work" by murdering Lebanese, a claim that should give pause to Israel’s Christian evangelical supporters. Where does the Lord Jesus say, "go forth and murder your neighbors so that you may steal their lands"?
The complicity of the American public in these heinous crimes will damn America for all time in history.
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Paul Craig Roberts [email him] was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington; Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s Forbes Magazine interview with Roberts about the recent epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct.
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| makasih mbak atas artikelnya. sepertinya kebijakan gedung putih cenderung resisten dengan artikel-artikel sekritis apapun. jauh lebih efektif lobby2 kelompok2 kepentingan di capitol hill.
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