Society: Twenty years after the Iranian war, the revelation of the game of the United

Source: China Times Society

20 years ago, on the night of March 20th, President Bush in the United States ordered a air raid against Baghdad.Thousands of missiles bombarded Baghdad. Regardless of the civilian area, living area or military area, the missiles are everywhere, broken walls, and dying, and the spirit is coated with charcoal.

Twenty years later, Washington finally remembered this anniversary. It was estimated that the cost of this war was about $ 2 trillion.It will consume billions of dollars in the treasury.But he answered arrogantly: "If you think we will take out $ 1 billion to spend there, then you are wrong." Yes, the arrogant ending is 2000 times that of 1 billion.

But this is not enough to summarize the loss of this war.According to Brown University's war cost research projects, about 8,500 American soldiers and contract workers were killed there, and as many as 300,000 people returned to China to have trauma syndrome.The damage of US national strength is not deep.But this is just an American, what about Iraqi?

Just this war and the US occupation of the United States in the following eight years, nearly 500,000 Iraqi civilians were killed.In the following 20 years, there were countless deaths and injuries caused by the political conflict caused by resistance.Not to mention that during the war, the two river civilization represented by the Euphrates where Iraq was located and the Dagris River was beaten by the US military missiles.Raise the empty.At that time, even the UNESCO was shocked and repeatedly reminded not to destroy cultural relics, but which of the U.S. military looting this!

When the United States decided to attack Afghanistan and Iraq after 911, many people of insight reminded the United States that they should attack other countries for a moment of anger and to find an air pocket.But with Bush's cowboy, especially when Americans are used to frustrating, they have to find someone who can be confronted with it before they can vent their anger.Under the psychological trauma of the 911 attack, it is necessary to find out the scapegoat, and Iraq is the character of that tragedy.Later facts proved that Iraq not only did not have devastating weapons, but did not even have large -scale weapons that were sufficient to confront the United States.

Iraq has been completely destroyed, but the United States does not usher in the Middle East, which has not ushered in democratization and liberalization. Instead, warfire has continued to burn and burned into new international terrorism.calm.The United States, after unwilling to continue to pay the price, announced that it would withdraw from Afghanistan and stopped the Iraq war.Then, the United States entered the "new isolationism", and the politicians were self -protection.

The Iraq war is a lesson for the United States, a financial loss, a severe decline in national strength, and no one wants to face, but what about Iraq?How many families are destroyed, how many children are displaced, and how many civilizations are burned by the tragedy of war, who will make up for?Who sews the pain of the world?

However, we still see the same thinking spread in the United States.That is because the United States believes that the rise of China's economic strength will threaten the position of the world in the world in the United States. Therefore, it is necessary to stuck China in technology, technology, trade, and finance., Still the inertia of the United States in the face of setbacks: consistent isolationism.

Recently, there is a book of American mythology that talks about such a group of "basic doctrines" in the United States. They believe that the American border is irritating.boundary".Didn't NATO and the United States think so to Ukraine?

However, in the face of China, there is no border problem at all, and there is no economic violation. At most, it is only globalization that allows China to rise in the international division of labor.But isn't the international division of labor, isn't it a masterpiece of multinational companies in the United States?Isn't globalization the central idea of neo -liberalism?In China, it only requires the United Nations order that is diverse and respectful in this world.But the United States is still forced everywhere, and it is necessary to find out scapegoats.

The US -China game has just begun. Whether it is rising from the east or the rise of China's rise, history will give the answer.However, we want to remind the United States that China is not Iraq, and Asia is not the Middle East. The long history of human beings can only go long and far away in a country can only be peaceful and mutual help.The United States is too late to change now. Do not regret it after 20 years. At that time, it was too late.