Tariq Ali11 maart 2008 – 13:42

Now we know the exact costs of war and occupation. It has cost the
United States and its allies three trillion dollars to kill one million
Iraqis, wound a million more and drive two million Iraqis out of
their country as refugees. The human cost of this war would, if some
other country were doing it, be labelled genocide. The leaders who went
to war would be tried as war criminals, but this is the war of 'western
civilization' against Islamo-barbarians, Islamo-fascists and all the
other names given to the new enemy. Abusing, defaming, killing Muslims
is now calmly accepted in Euro-American culture. The people who do this
have institutionalised the judeocide of the Second World War as the only
universal crime. As long as you denounce that crime, you can commit your
own crimes today. This is the world we live in. This is the world of
double-standards. Why the surprise when those under fire refuse to
accept these standards. A modest proposal. Perhaps the Nobel Prize
Committee should institute a new award: the Nobel Prize for War Crimes.

Tariq Ali
British-Pakistani historian, novelist, film maker and commentator.

Bericht aan de Bevolking is een initiatief van Het beschrijf, in samenwerking met het B/Russell/s Tribunal. Een aantal auteurs van deze teksten treedt ook aan op de Literaire Wake n.a.v. 5 jaar oorlog in Irak, op woensdag 19 maart van 20 u. tot 24 u. in Literatuurhuis Passa Porta, A. Dansaertstraat 46, 1000 Brussel. Zie www.passaporta.be

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