Someone needs to be an enemy of himself and contrary to humanitarian values is minimal approve the nefarious crime of terrorism from al Qaeda Nov. 11, 2001 in New York. But for all titles is unacceptable that a state, militarily the most powerful of the world to respond to terrorism has transformed himself into a terrorist state. That's what Bush did, suspending democracy and limiting the duration of some unconditional rights, which were the prerogative of parents. He did more, he led two wars against Afghanistan and against Iraq, which devastated one of the oldest cultures of mankind in which they were killed over a hundred thousand people and over one million displaced.
It renewed the question that almost anyone interested put: why it produced such terrorist acts? Bishop Robert Bowman of Melbourne Beach in Florida who was formerly military fighter pilot during the Vietnam War said, clearly in the National Catholic Reporter, an open letter to the President: "We are the target of terrorists because, in much of the world, our government stands for dictatorship, bondage and human exploitation. We are the target of terrorists because they hate us. And they hate us because our government does things odious. "
He did not say anything Richard Clarke, head on terror White House in an interview with Jorge Spot issued by Globonews of 28/02/2010 and repeated on 03/05/2011. Had warned the CIA and President Bush that an Al Qaeda attack was imminent in New York. Do not listen to him. Soon after occurred, which filled him with rage. That anger rose against the government when he saw that with Bush lies and falsehoods, by sheer will to maintain imperial hegemony, declared a war against Iraq that had no connection with September 11. The anger reached a point which for health and decency to resign from office.
More striking was Chalmers Johnson, a top CIA analysts also the same journalist in an interview on May 2 this year in Globonews.Met inside the harm that more than 800 U.S. military bases produce across the globe because evoke anger and outrage people in broth for terrorism. He cites the book by Eduardo Galeano "The Open Veins of Latin A." to illustrate the atrocities that the intelligence agencies by Americans have made here.Denounces the imperial character of Governments, founded on the use of inteligiência recommends that coups, assassinations of leaders and organizations how to torture. In protest, he resigned and then professor of history at the University of California. He wrote three volumes "Blowback" (retaliation) which provided for a few months in advance, the retaliation against U.S. arrogance in the world. Heralded as the prophet of September 11. This is the background to understand the current situation that culminated in the execution of criminal Osama bin Laden.
The bodies of U.S. intelligence are some losers. For ten years, scoured the world to hunt down bin Laden. Nothing did. Only by using an immoral method, the torture of a messenger from Bin Laden, managed to get to their hideout. Therefore, they had no merits.
Everything in this hunt is under the sign of immorality, shame and crime. First, President Obama, like a "god" ordered the execution / killing Bin Laden. This goes against the universal ethical principle of "no kill" and international agreements that prescribe the arrest, trial and punishment of the accused. So if Hussein did to Iraq with the Nazi criminals in Nuremberg, with Eichmann in Israel and with other defendants. Bin Laden chose to play intentioned crime for which Barack Obama will one day meet. Then they invaded the territory of Pakistan, without any prior warning of the operation.Then the corpse is abducted and cast into the sea, a crime against piety, family law that each family has to bury their dead, criminals or not, because as bad as they are, they never cease to be human.
No justice. It was made revenge, always wrong. "Vengeance is mine" says the God of the scriptures of the three Abrahamic religions. Now we are under the power of an emperor who weighs about the murder charge. And the crowds necrophilia diminishes us and shames us all.
Leonardo Boff is the author of Fundamentalism, terrorism, religion and peace, Voices 2009.