Planting the seeds of treason is apparently vogue if you are attempting to alleviate suffering. In a Muslim led, Al Quds committee protest last week in Dearborn Michigan, protesters scornfully chanted the words of America’s late enemy, Ayatollah Khomeini, they were heard chanting “Death to America”. The chants weren’t a facetious attempt to raise awareness of Palestinian suffering in Israel’s war on Hamas, they were a blasphemous act of self-flagellation aimed at deconsecrating the United States. While its not the first time the ills of the world have been blamed on U.S. foreign policy, it is the first time American citizens have publicly wished death upon their own country. Condemning America to ‘death’, while hard for many patriotic Americans to hear, was crystallized long ago in the hive of projection driven left wing intelligentsia.
Israel’s bombing campaign in Palestine has been controversial to say the least. While Hamas is embedding themselves within civilian populations in Gaza, the bombing campaign has killed thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians. According to a Wall Street Journal report that analysed satellite imagery, 29,000 bombs were dropped on Gaza were designed to target civilian infrastructure. While The Israeli Defence Force has claimed that it has killed over 10,000 Hamas combatants during the bombing campaign, Gaza’s ‘health ministry’ has claimed that a total of 30,000 civilians have been killed.
Nevertheless, the Biden administration has asserted its ongoing commitment to Israel. Just this Saturday, the House of Representatives approved $26 billion in defence aid to Israel as the war continues.
American public’s approval for Israel’s war has declined.
Early on, after the attacks on October 7th, a Gallup poll found that 50% of Americans supported Israel’s war in Gaza. That was then, but according to a Gallup poll in March, 55% of Americans now disapprove of Israel’s war in Gaza while only 36% support it. While the war is complicated, one thing is clear, Israel is losing the ‘battle of hearts and minds’ within the U.S.
Critics, human rights groups, and pro-Palestinian organisations claim that Israel is purposely killing innocent civilians and committing ‘genocide’ and figures like Political analyst, Robert Pape have asserted Israel’s bombing campaign is purposefully designed to target innocent civilians. Pape argued, “Gaza is one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history.” It’s also a view the International Court of Justice has entertained. Stoking the idea that Israel is committing a ‘genocide’ by deliberately targeting innocent civilians, the ICJ reported in January this year that Israel ‘may’ be in violation of the genocide convention. Although the court did not make a substantive determination as of yet, parts of the mainstream media have adopted the view that Israel is committing mass genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza.
Finding itself caught in the crosshairs of support for Israel and international backlash the U.S is being apportioned blame for the alleged ‘genocide in Gaza’.Chanting anti-American edicts on U.S soil may seem like the harmless rhetoric of overzealous protesters in a Muslim majority neighbourhood ,but to the uninitiated in cultural decline, deep fissures are beginning to emerge in American society.
The view that the U.S. is the “great Satan” in world affairs has brewed for some time.
And, it was only a matter of time before we went over the slippery slope. Long before Israel’s war with Hamas, the seeds of projection against the U.S as a ‘evil actor’ were planted by the left leaning intelligentsia elite. Possessed by sanctimonious generalizations of U.S foreign policy, figures like philosopher Noam Chomsky exemplified the genesis of how some came to think of the U.S as the ‘great Satan’. Chomsky argued that U.S foreign policy operates from the “Godfather principle, straight out of the mafia: that defiance cannot be tolerated. It’s a major feature of state policy.”
There’s no shortage of examples that embolden arguments like Chomsky’s. You could point to the U.S. history of supporting dictators and authoritarian regimes like Mahmar Ghadaffi, Saddam Hussein, and the Saudi Family. You could point to the fractious history of the U.S.-backed regime designed to protect the arc of US economic, ideological, and military interests across the Third World. For instance, in 1933, the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista overthrew the Cuban government. When Cuba fell under Soviet influenced Communist rule, President JFK later attempted to overthrow Castro’s government in the 1961 Bay of Pigs incident. If that failed attempt wasn’t enough, the CIA attempted to assassinate Fidel Castro on eight separate occasions in order to nullify the spread of communism.
The recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have come to symbolise the unbridled ‘evil’ of U.S. foreign policy.
The oil argument is particularly damming and its one that has become synonymous with U.S interests around the world. The view claims American interests always revolve around oil. Admittedly, it is hard to see how some wars, like the Iraq war, could not fit into this category. Given what we know know, the Bush administration used the weapons of mass destruction argument as a pretext to invade, it appears that nefarious negotiations did take place behind the scenes. As Bush Vice President Dick Cheney led the neo-conservative case for war in Iraq. Cheney, the former CEO of Haliburton from 1995 to 2000, left the company to become a member of the Bush administration in 2000. But the optics of what happened next are nothing short of spectacular.
Cheney’s former company, Haliburton, was awarded $17 billion dollars in contracts to rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure. Cheney, who at the time was not involved with Halliburton, was accused by then Democratic candidate, John Kerry, of improper conduct. While the Bush administration insisted Cheny had no improper relationship with his former company, Kerry insisted “ Dick Cheney’s old company Halliburton has profited from the mess in Iraq at the expense of American troops and taxpayers. While Halliburton has been engaging in massive overcharging and wasteful practices under this no-bid contract, Dick Cheney has continued to receive compensation from his former company.”
Mr. Kerry asserted: “While Dick Cheney claims that he has gotten rid of all of his financial interests in Halliburton, he’s actually received $2 million in bonuses and deferred compensation from his former company since taking office in 2001. And the independent Congressional Research Service found that under federal ethics law, Dick Cheney did have a lingering financial interest in Halliburton.”
That some of the architects of U.S. foreign policy, like Cheney and others, haven’t sought to profit from the spoils of war is a sad reality. Obviously, some motivations are financial, ulterior motives, self-interest, and ideologically driven.
It was only a matter of time before some began to utter blasphemy.
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Even if there is a vague possibility that the U.S. is supporting an ‘unjust’ war by providing aid to Israel, there is more to the moral fabric of the United States than it’s foreign policy. The same country whose death they wish for also provides them with the First Amendment, the freedom of religion, the freedom of the press, and the right to assembly. The same country whose death they wish also helped fend off a global Nazi takeover; were it not for the United States and its allies, we may all be speaking German. Perhaps, the Dearborn protesters ought to spend time in the repressive Iranian regime , or perhaps they ought to embed themselves within the orchestra of Hamas and other despotic dictatorships around the globe, if the pain of living in the ‘morally bankrupt’ United States is too great a moral burden to bear.
The United States has not crossed the Rubicon of moral errors, and anti-American chants within America are blasphemous.
Even the left’s Bill Maher stated, “Can I talk about American propaganda? Because there was a rally in Dearborn, Michigan, with a large Muslim population, [there were] chants of ‘Death to America.’ I feel like we’ve passed something here.”
“The left has gotten mad at me for many years for talking about Islam. I try not to do it too much because I know it makes them go crazy, and I’ve made my point. But it needs to be talked about now. When you start chanting ‘Death to America’ in America.”
Later, on X, Maher wrote, “We’ve passed the Rubicon with chants of ‘death to America’ on American soil
Have we forgotten the source of this famous saying?
It was popularised by the first supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Shah Ayotollah Khomeini. The Shah, a visceral enemy of the U.S., insisted that all of the problems in the Muslim world were to blame on the United States. In the wake of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iranians were heard chanting , “Marg bar Amrika.” American interventionism left a bad taste in the Shah’s mouth.
Like the Shah, the Michigan protesters suffer from a gross psychological projection. Projecting all of the wrongdoings in the world onto the United States and its allies, the ‘death wish’ on America is a self serving prophecy. It’s a view however, that we must challenge. Not all of the world’s problems or the situation in Israel were caused by the U.S. It was not the U.S. that committed the the terrorist attack of October 7th; it was Iranian backed Hamas. But if those individuals insist on this, they have a solution; they can leave the United States.
One thing was forgotten amidst the ecstasy of the protests too, If the U.S is morally reprehensible, then why live there any longer? If the U.S., as they boldly claim, is a supporter of Israel’s “state terrorism and crimes against humanity’ then why would they want to live in a country that also guarantees their freedoms, constitutional rights, and first and second amendments?
Why would you want to live in a country on whose death you wish?
