Anwaar Hussain has written an amazing piece into understanding why America is where it is today and why there is no hope of getting out of it. Sadly, it is not the American people’s fault that they are not literate about world affairs and therefore unable to make informed decisions about its elected leaders outside the rhetoric that is shown in the media. I was shocked when I finished reading the whole article, as you will be. Why? If this is what the Americans know, they how can they be considered a super power when their understanding and knowledge of world affairs is that of a newborn child. Is this what the future has to offer the rest of the world, more Americans that don’t understand and don’t care?
Most Americans don’t know that back in November 1999 when George W Bush, the then Republican frontrunner in the United States presidential elections, was subjected to a little foreign policy quiz by a Boston TV, he did not know the names of two leaders, among others, who represented about one-fifth of humanity…the leaders of Pakistan and India.
Most Americans don’t know that such was the state of the awareness of a man about to be handed over the reins of the most awesome military machine of the most powerful country on planet earth and let loose upon the world.
Most Americans don’t know that their country’s foreign policy has been held hostage to the wellbeing of the state of Israel for the past about four decades and all the world’s major crisis, including the so called ‘war on Terror’, can be traced, one way or the other, to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and America’s extremely partisan Israel-centric role in that.
Most Americans don’t know that a large section of American diplomatic and military experts have long held the view that U.S. support of Israel is often contrary to and, in fact, enormously damaging to U.S. interests.
Although this article is devastating, what I found more interesting was a post lower on the page that explains the true position of the US educational system and how it is been destroyed from within by its own government to create human robots that only follow commands and don’t know how to think for themselves. For example, in 1995, a Minneapolis student teacher wrote to a local newspaper:
“I was told children are not to be expected to spell the following words correctly: back, big, call, came, can, day, did, dog, down, get, good, have, he, home, if, in, is, it, like, little, man, morning, mother, my, night, off, out, over, people, play, ran, said, saw, she, some, soon, their, them, there, time, two, too, up, us, very, water, we, went, where, when, will, would, etc. Is this nuts?”
Nope. America has sacrificed educational leadership in mathematics, science, technology and now it’s own nature tongue, English. When you can’t spell the basic words that make up most sentences, then you might as well be illiterate. No wonder most corporations are outsourcing jobs to foreign countries.
Related posts:
- Invade and Conquer – The New American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
- How Sarah Palin Rallied Pakistan’s Feminists - Time
- If Only The Roles Reversed - Pakistan Invades America
- Re-Orienting Pakistan - Dr. Hasan-Askari Rizvi
- Principles to implement Israel boycott should be worked out - OIC
- Keith Olbermann - A True American Hero
- I am Not a Terrorist
