Yaolee Chen

English 101

Research Project First Draft

Glenn Simshaw

The US War in Afghanistan

Verses

An Unlimited Happiness

On September 11, on the TV, a craft hit at the top of the building of the World Trade Center in New York from the right; and, after a while another craft hit at the midst of the building from the left. The building caught on the fires and burned into the ashes. Under the screen of the TV, there was a title written, “America is Under Attacked”. The thesis of this essay is that the US is not under Attacked; but opposite to what we often heard from the media, the US is attacking the countries that served as the US oil transits. The history of the US has showed that the American rights to happiness are keep growing.

Since World War II, the right to happiness had limited to the individuals during the postwar period, and had limited to the families in the 1950s, and had limited to the societies in the 1960s, and had limited to the American nation in the 70s, and had limited to the Middle East in the 80s and 90s, and had become a right of international wide after 2000s. The right to happiness is an assertion by the American ideologists that as to them, who concerned themselves have the right of self-determination, shall use violence to reach a goal, which is often called the “self-defense”. The loyalist Harry S. Truman killed or prisons Rosenberg, Alger Hiss, and many other communist suspects. The children of American ideologists ran away form their nuclear families and spent their days and nights on the streets, thinking they were running for their rights to happiness. The leader of Black Power Malcolm x, also, was an American ideologist who asserted that the international peace was achievable throughout the religion. Members of Black Parthenon Party, for the right of the economic equality, shooting at the policemen with the machine guns, they called their aggression, a self-defense, also. In 1971, the US ads to Israel increased five fold; following the Camp David accords, the Peace Treaty of Washington of 1979 limited the power of American oil interest in Palestine. In 1982, the Regan’s Administration approved Israeli invasion of Lebanon; temporarily it was not successful; and, Americans accepted numerous action by Israel that was in general opposed by nearly all the country of the world. On August 8^th, 1991, the Unites States under the warming of the United Nation, declared war in Kuwait. Since, the US had granted its right to purchase the cheap oil in the Middle East.

Our war in Afghanistan, today, was a fight for the self-defense by the American ideologists. Seventeen miles alone, from Black Sea to Caspian Sea produced 1.7 million barrels of oil per day. Most of the oil pipelines in these areas had already occupied by the British oil companies. Fortunately, the US was given the right to use the oil pipeline in Caspian Sea, where a great amount of oil resource is hidden under the Sea. So, the US ideologists planned to built another 4 vertically oil pipelines from the north of Caspian Sea (in the south of Russia) to the south of Caspian Sea (in the north of Afghanistan). Once the construction is done, the US will have the increasing need of the shortest oil pipeline in Afghanistan, connecting the resources of the oil (in Caspian Sea) to the shipping ports of the oil and the refining oil companies located around the Persian Gulf, in Kuwait particularly. So, unlike what we often heard from the media, the US was developing its predominant role in these areas that we granted our right of capitalism in Afghanistan.

On October 7, 2001, the US declared war against Taliban. The US congress and the white house spent less than a month to make this decision. Still, some congressmen said, the attack of the World Trade Center had given the US an excellent excuse to replace the government of Taliban. Taliban formerly was an independent government supported by the US in the 1990s, but the government was not so loyalty to the US as we had expected it would give us the right to use the land as a place for the oil transit. The Taliban did the opposite; it gave 85% of the right of the using shortest oil pipeline to Uncol. Uncol is an oil company rival to the US. The US did first trying to kick out the Uncol: in an American court in 2000, the Uncol lost a huge amount of the money by the lawsuit as Uncol was mocked with an evil name, the forced labor organization, by the Americans. The second, the US wanted to do was to replace the government Taliban, which was the very reason of our war in Afghanistan. The US asserted, the American oil companies had the right to use the shortest pipeline; the right was not necessary a right that the Americans could not live without, President Bush called the US aggression, a self-defense--- in the name of stopping the terrorists.

First, we had committed an international crime by killing the civilians in Gardez. Two weeks after the US dropping bombs in Sha-e-Cot Valley, where all fighters of Afghanistan were killed in the cave, the world’s first Themobaric bomb of 2,000 pounds was dropped in Gardez, where the fighters and the women and the children were all killed. After the dropping the Themobaric bomb, the US began using the offensive operation Ana Condo in the east of Afghanistan in the late of March. At the same time, following the unsuccessfully Arabia-Israeli peace plan by Alfat Yassert, Collin Powell military support Israeli invasion of Palestine. By the early of May, Israeli end with two extra cities seized: Bethlehem and Rumullah. On April 30th, the US allied with the British troops invaded the south of Afghanistan. On May 2^nd, the British troops massacred the civilians in Ghost, Wazristan, Gardez. The US troops faced the hostile in Gardez and Wazristan sympathetic to what they had with Taliban a month ago. While purchasing our right to purchase the cheap oil in the Middle East, we had killed the precious human lives of the people in the Middle East by accident.

Second, the limited happiness was empowered by the media. On February the 10^th, 2002, the NBC News said that the US troops had only killed five civilians in Afghanistan. But according to the local news from the Internet, the US had actually destroyed a whole school. On April 18^th, I read a news form the web site nbc4.tv in the early morning: the news was about a Swiss pilot hit at the mist of the building of the Financial Project in Milan, in Italy, and the report said that the pilot was very possibly sent by the headquarter of Al-Quada, Dazube because days ago the American Society resigned the President of Venezuela Charvez under the protest of 25,000 civilians in Venezuela. And also, the resisting American culture by the Islamic was clear when the former President of Afghanistan Zaher Sha returned and gained the great welcome by the civilians of Afghanistan on April 15th. The Arab-Islamic opposed the US predominant role in the Middle East. On April 18^th, at 10:45 am the same day I read the Internet early in the morning, the news said, it probably had nothing to do with the terrorists; and the news also said that President Bush considered the event seriously. And the news of the next day said, the pilot was a mental disordered, and he had just hit at the building of Financial Project in Milan by accident. Coincidently, other similar constantly changing stories were told in the media. In the early of April, an Arabian witnessed that an Israeli set up a fire in Nativity church, where traditionally people believe the church was the place where Jesus was born. For the following few days, the News said, no one can be so sure who started the fire—it might be the Arabians who set up the fires in the church firstly. With the limited American power to observe the truth, the Americans in general thought our wars in the Middle East today were a self-defense against the terrorist Osuma Bin-Laden.

The killing the civilians was the first and the media coverage was the second, the US government Uncle Sam was given the unlimited military power to purchase the cheap oil in the Middle East. The Portray of the Americans in the 2002 was like the face of Malcolm X and his followers who often called their fight for the economic equality a self-defense. While the American ideologist using the unlimited military power for the right to happiness, the US had committed an international crime by killing too much people in the wars.