Exporting American-style democracy but without the Second Amendment (or the democracy)

The cases of the Iraqi and Afghani soldiers and police who attack our soldiers – even though they are supposed to be on the same team – ought to allow us to speak openly and honestly about what an occupation is, what a puppet government is, and about the real physical, economic, moral and psychological effects of an occupation on the occupied.

Add to the mix the fact that the occupied peoples in Iraq and Afghanistan are expected to be entirely disarmed. The touted “constitution” of Iraq, drafted largely in Washington and by Washington’s lackeys, has features similar to our own, but is specifically lacking any right of the people to bear arms. Similarly, Afghanistan’s 2004 constitution likewise contains no right for citizens to bear arms.

Like most laws, and like our own constitution, these too are dead letters. Iraqis and Afghans are armed – but by bearing arms they risk breaking the law, and are seen as wrongdoers rather than citizens.

From “More Training, or Fewer Euphemisms?”

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