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Comments and thoughts of an American Muslim on US Foreign policy in the Middle East and the so-called War on Terror,examining the contradictions from a perspective of justice, fairness and human rights.

Asymmetrical Warfare
03 July, 2006
It is hypocrisy for the US to provide Israel with foreign military assistance funding, allowing them to carry out daily attacks on Occupied Palestinian Lands and at the same time to deny recognition of and funding to the democratically elected government of Palestine. Not only is this US policy self-defeating to US interests by creating animosity in the Arab world and elsewhere, but also it is causing a humanitarian crisis in the Occupied Territories.

I heard the term "Asymmetrical Warfare" used in an interview of the commander of Guantanamo, Rear Admiral Harry Harris, seen recently on US television. When asked about his reaction to the suicides of some of the detainees, two Saudis and a Yemeni, the commander replied "They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of ‘asymmetrical warfare’ waged against us."

I thought people commit suicide precisely because they become desperate, whether they are in America, Guantanamo, Iraq or Palestine. They have no one to turn to for help, loose hope and, as a last resort to relieve the pain, take their own lives. However, according to this arrogant military leader, they are engaging in "Asymmetrical Warfare."

I thought “asymmetrical

Posted by yuram 18:34 | Palestine | Comment(0) | Permalink

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