name: Yuram Abdullah Weiler
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.
A Special Relationship: The US and Israel
30 June, 2008
It’s the Foreign Policy, Stupid
11 April, 2008
“Why do they hate us?” The question simultaneously captures the ignorance of the average American as to their government’s use of hard-earned tax dollars, and an unshakable faith in American innocence and purity of motives. After all, as President Truman declared in 1947 with unabashed idealism "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."[i] So how indeed could they hate us? (More)
Give War a Chance
01 March, 2008
Recently, I saw two bumper stickers on the back of a truck, one of them read, "Give War a Chance," and the other, "War never solved anything except for ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism." I was really at a loss as to how, if presented with an opportunity, to respond to the absurd messages on these bumper stickers and pondered at length over various approaches that I could employ.
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