Making History

The American electoral race climaxed today evening with Barack Obama becoming the 44th President of the United States, enthusing and overwhelming the almost teary crowd. The first thought that crossed my mind was, alright – so no more wars. And maybe no more Iran. Hopefully bye bye to the Iraq issue too. I mean since when did America become the international janitor to be cleaning other people’s messes? Saddam is dead, if you think he’s going to come back from his grave, and cause another spectacle, then you have cause not to pull out your troops, but now after he’s pretty much decomposed and dissolved into the bowels of the earth, and surprise surprise there were never any nukes (concealed or on display) why then must the government retain control of a foreign territory? Unless America has suddenly become an imperialist nation and taking after the Brits, has this irresistable urge to go on destorying and possessing lands, to ‘woohoo’ revel over the superiority of its power.

No reasonable cause justifies the American citizens to allow their people to be butchered in wars because that is a responsibility of the Governments of those nations to deal with their own shit. Their shit and American shit is different. Each country has a cultural identity that entails satisfying and living up to the standards and ideals of its citizens. To stand up and shout out suggestions or intervene with solutions that are likely to never work on another territory is pure stupidity, because ideas don’t always translate well beyond our national borders. If you think living in America and discussing politics and peace plans will actually bring those ideas to reality overseas, it will not. Period. You are in denial if you think otherwise. Ok, lets not discount the minor possibilites, believing ideas conceived ‘here’ will work ‘there’ then be prepared to face the obvious antagonism of the local civilans of those nations.

Try imagining the Germans, coming over with ideas to improve the American economy, or pretty much any random issue, would that not rile the public? Piss you off? No? Indeed it would. Would you not feel trespassed? Insecure? Invaded? As if you were losing your identity?

Well that is exactly how the so-called ‘Other’ Nations felt when the Bush administration began riding their assess. Terrorism is not an Islamic or eastern concept, yeah right, as if the Russians were angels, and the Italians and Germans never terrorised or blew up Americans. Oh maybe because eastern people are colorful, do not speak English, have strong values, so they are the suckers. Boo. Ok. Obviously we have suffered a mass psychological crisis since 9/11 attacks. But the fact that those attacks were successful was something that the American Defence forces should be held accountable for.

So now America has elected a black president. This moment in time has certainly set the history for the world. A country which has lived through race-issues, the black and white divide, Obama not only represents the manifestation of what people thought would have been an impossible feat to achieve today because people’s tongues are still slured with racial prejudices but also a nation of young men and women who made it a point to vote and change the malignant condition of the American govenment and its dysfunctional policies. I can picture the world leaders probably sighing with relief right this minute (at least the not-so-asshole-ones). However when it comes to politics and political leaders, I have my own cynical veiws, because its like you are dealing with a Dr. Jekyl and Mr Hyde. So it would do us all (Americans and World Citizens) good to sit back and watch where things lead and make it a point to always question reality before accepting it blindly on face-value.