New Americans and a New America

There was no surprise at the polls, as everyone who knew the true composition of the American people and their antagonistic feelings predicted, but the world woke up to another surprise: The black Barack Obama winning the highest position in America through the votes of blacks and whites equally. This new situation might require, with the astonishing changes it brings, deep analysis of the reasons which drove the Americans to overturn their historical conventions that had accompanied the founding of the great country since its inception over 250 years ago. Whites elected whites and traditions of racial preference did not permit blacks to attain high-ranking positions.

In initial efforts to explain what happened, everyone agrees that the reasons for this huge change are the policies of the Neoconservatives and their work in the administration of U.S. affairs and its domestic and foreign relations throughout the past term of their rule. Millions of Americans consider the Neocons’ arrival to the White House as the worst event in the history of their country, and the new slavery to recklessness and rashness, wherein for eight years, the Unites States has suffered from every pernicious evil, might have continued. For only in the Neoconservative era did the Unites States suffer, for the first time in its history, an attack on its own ground, executed by Al Qaeda. And for the first time in the modern era the United States dispatched an army depleted in both its finances and its personnel to occupy another country, under the pretense of spreading democracy, only to end up as a true occupation of an independent country, barely any different from the Israeli occupation of Palestine. And due to the fact that at least a quarter of Americans are still living with the effects of the Vietnam War and its victims, the Bush administration’s war against Iraq was not met with welcomes and cheers from all those electors, especially as there is no sign of profit from this war, or American soldiers returning home victorious. The Americans ambushed the party managing this war, to topple it. And whether it was for the sake of black Americans, the truth that the election campaign revealed is that the race wasn’t between two people, but between two parties: One a committer of atrocities with its delusional administration that must lose the election; and the one that won was not Barack Obama, but indeed the Democratic Party, which previously had gained control of congress in the first elections after the war on Iraq for exactly the same reasons.

The past years have seen the beginning of a new state of awareness in America, when adults and children all witnessed the American colossi collapse in front of their eyes on the 11th of September 2001. The media, especially the internet, allowed the American people information to know more about the rest of the world and its suffering from the policies of their country. The costs of the War on Terror offered a profound lesson to Americans, especially with regards to its relations with the rest of the world. Many of them have become convinced that terrorism sometimes has reasons, which can’t be ignored and put to the side, upon waging a costly war on an entire nation under the pretext that it harbors extremists and terrorists. The clash of civilizations ignited by the Neocons between the West and the East wasn’t in the permanent interests of the West, for this blow woke the Americans up to the fact that they always bear the burden of disasters, which afflict the world while their compatriots in evil get off scot-free despite their active role in each war that has happened or has been on the way. As for the American economy, it has always been the victim in the global campaign against this country or that, with this excuse or that. The United States bears the responsibility for all embargoes and blockades which damaged many economically. And in the Neoconservative era the U.S. has overseen increasing economic sanctions and hot and cold wars ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Neocons are the ones who bear the responsibility for the hatred which has grown against Americans around the world, as they became a target for terrorists and extremists everywhere, even inside their own country.

Another factor contributing to the Republicans’ collapse in popularity and their representative in the White House is in regards to the results of the Neoconservatives’ campaigns and their wars, especially the War on Terror. For what has this war accomplished? Have the Americans achieved anything to be proud of? Has there been any victory declared or attributable to the surge in force, known for its destruction rather than building, and encouraging people to terrorism rather than offering real participation in peace-making around the world, especially in our region? Is there a clearly-defined scope, beyond which the War on Terror will cease, victorious over the dark extremist forces? Then another, no less important, question: Why did the U.S. topple the regime of Saddam Hussein, and where is the evil that Iraq got rid of thanks to the American military machine and the open-ended occupation? Was Iraq a terrorist extremist ruled by extremist organizations and sects before the occupation? What is the profit of 4000 American deaths in Iraq if freedom is still far out of reach?

All these questions and dozens of others drew the attention of ordinary Americans, and for the first time in history, Americans themselves have had face to face conversations via computer with modern moderate Muslims, to speak with them and exchange opinions. They knew more about them outside the context of the culture presented to them by the American media, which is permanently committed to political interests, particularly those of the global Zionists.