Eye For An Eye, Tooth For A Tooth

The Middle East is in turmoil with nations rising up. Protests and demonstrations are met with heavy gunfire and tear gas, army and police forces attack with batons and indiscriminately beat and kill men, women and children. You would think that the people would back down in the face of such brutality. Particularly in nations like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria their are ongoing protests and demonstrations, with Syria slipping into civil war. But the people are not cowards, and only gain strength when a comrade is gunned down by authorities. Muslims are not cowards. Arabic people are not dumbed down like the developed nations, where the first appearance of police brings fear and caution to the crowds.

Muslims who are attacked and killed just brings retaliation, because the crowds of people know that the guns that are used on them are not homemade, but American, British and Russian- and to stand against authorities is a stand against their own regimes of evil and the evil suppliers of the weapons to their regimes. In the Middle East there is a much stronger stance by the people than in any region of the World. They are just not scared.
But look at our developed, wealthy nations. The richest and most developed countries have the most spoilt and fortunate people on Earth, who believe that their society is near perect enough, and merely shrug off protestors as troublemakers, and condemn or attack the few who actually do have the guts to oppose authority.
But the protestors of developed nations don't have the same driving ambition for concise change that Muslims do.
Western nations do not compete in  terms of the determination that Muslim nations have. Perhaps we have been sitting around just watching mindless jargon on television, and have seen so many violent movies where the bad guys get killed by authorities that we fear being dealt with in the same swift manner that movies deliver.
The truth is, if the majority of people in Western nations took to violent struggle, as in Middle East nations, then the change would come very quickly.

Would we see police and army shooting dead people on the streets, kicking down doors and beating and arresting us as we sleep? I doubt that our Governments truly have a plan to effectively be able to quell an uprising. Many police and army personnel just would not attack civilians, and would switch sides, bringing weapons.experience and training with them. And in reality developed nations should be rising up in their thousands, taking to the streets and confronting the authorities, regardless of the consequences. But rich nations generally have the dumbed down types, who are scared and fear losing their petty belongings if thrown into jail. People should be rising up, because the richest nations are generally to blame for supporting fascist regimes in the Middle East, supplying weapons to Saudi Arabia, Syria and Bahrain to be used on their people. Foreign weapons and training that kill civilians, without a foreign finger needed to pull any trigger.
That is what Muslims are sick and tired of putting up with. Iran won't be a walk in the park. Iran rightfully deserves a chance to build as a nation, and have had sanctions placed on them by America, who have also forcefully urged other nations to stop buying Iranian oil and stop doing financial business with Iran.

Iran has supplied 6 months of oil to Europe which still has not been paid for, so why should Iran supply a product for free anyway??? No other country would put up with that deal...
On the same day that British Prime Minister Cameron and French President Sarkozy agreed on nuclea power deals, Afghanistan's President, Pakistan's leader and Iran's Ahmadinejad met to discuss talks with the Taliban, and to work on peace in the region, unified in the face of the sudden media, political, diplomatic and economic attack on Iran. The Muslim countries have worked out what the World's superpowers America and Britain and allies want, and free oil, military occupations and foreign dictatorship is not in their best interest- and those Middle East nations have made a decision to not trust Western nations. After 10 years of war and 10 years of bowing before foreign rage the Middle East has no more patience, and who can blame them?

So the name of the game today is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. You build nuclear power plants, well so will Iran and any other nation who decides to. If sanctions are put in place to purposely break Iran's economy, and if Europe won't pay for Iran's oil, then Iran stops shipping the oil and lets Europe freeze over a bit, both industrially and financially. Just how much more aggression can developed nations throw at the Middle East before the Middle East throws it back?  But that is the name of America's game- provoke the competition, wait for the competition to provoke back, and then attack the competition on the grounds that retaliation is terrorism...is that a strategy invented by the sane politicians in Washington D.C., or was is a strategy devised in a farmyard barn by a gang of huckleberry hicks with pitch-forks and white pointed hats???

The crowds are gathering, both in the Middle East and in developed nations, where economies are on the brink of serious downward spirals, or have already virtually collapsed. But what are the crowds of protestors in developed nations so angry about? Lack of money, lack of employment, lack of healthcare?
In the Middle East they haven't had much of that anyway, and they fight for the chance to take the first steps into the developed World.  But developed nations have hit a peak in development, industry levelled off 10 years ago and declined rapidly. Developed economies slipped down a few notches. Middle East and other poor nations are just starting to look forward to a new future of technology, employment and wealth that was the same ambition which has started to destroy many nations, because greed gets in the way of honest opportunity, and the wealth gets consolidated into the bank accounts of the globalist corporations and the big bosses of financial companies.

Are we going to stand against only the financial corruption, or are we standing against the weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Syria and other nations. If the Middle East supplied weapons to developed nations which were then used on civilians, would the people of developed nations put up with that?  Of course not.
So why do we only challenge the inequity of wealth, when it is the American and allied war machine that is dictating the course of history, the same war machine that secures oil fields and gives weapons to oppressive, fascist regimes to quell uprisings, the same war machine that costs America 800 Billion dollars each year and which makes the billions for the military industrial complex? The war machine that squashes small nations to make way for the pale rider on his horse, so that pale face can maintain economic dominance.

Both Russia and China oppose foreign war and foreign business, and have not joined in the American wars of the Middle East. But will America persuade Russia and China to join with America. It's doubtful. Russia and China are becoming the answer to the problem of foreign dictatorship in the Middle East, and that is a real slap in the face to American aggression. For all that the U.S and the allies have done to upset the Middle East, the cards are now in the other hand. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Push me, shove you...What you give is what you get, you reap what you sow...Perhaps the Occupy movement will one day slip into a civil uprising in a developed nation one day. It will be a day when someone makes a decision, just like the Middle East have decided. We will have to decide one day, whether violence is the only last thing left to achieve change and justice, and when you see people get murdered by police and authorities, and you see the people fighting back, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a  tooth- then feel some sense of compassion and understanding in your fellow man, because he or she was brave enough to fight and didn't sit at home in silence accepting the evil corruption.

I guess that's all for now- you can go back to watching your pathetic television programme and be ignorant if that's your dying ambition...

by Russell S.Wyllie