アメリカ”帝国”の同化政策

'It is the fear of what is not like you. It is ignorance and injustice, based on an inner fear of something intangible that is not dangerous.'

以前引用したゲイ＝異なる者たちについての恐怖


先ほど、引用した記事の一節

Translation: co-opt and assimilate Muslims into American culture, so as not to pose a threat to US hegemony, and work within Muslim communities globally to bring them into the American fold a la the Christian missionaries of old, willing handmaidens in the imperial project, what black Americans referred to derisively as “Uncle Toms”.

そして、その記事が引用しているアン・コールターの発言

Let's look at the full context in which Coulter made her infamous declaration:

Airports scrupulously apply the same laughably ineffective airport harassment to Suzy Chapstick as to Muslim hijackers. It is preposterous to assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac. We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
[Town Hall, September 14, 2001]

A fair reading could be that Ann Coulter wasn't explicitly referring to all Muslims, but that the "they" referred back to those in the streets of Arab nations who were celebrating the World Trade Center attacks.

Coulter's statement as thus interpreted is, of course, still outrageous.

Ann Coulter: Her Excuse Debunked

While Coulter can maybe get away with parsing her own text here, I wonder if any commentators on this brouhaha have taken what Coulter said in her column together with what she said on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect September 25:

Ann Coulter: What's different about Germany than here, but I think is more similar to Japan and ought to be the model, is that Germany at least had a wealth of civilization prior to the Third Reich and it had a respect for human life, something that was not as noticeable in Japan. And one of the things General MacArthur did, he considered converting the emperor to Christianity. Decided not to because he thought there would be a fight between Catholics and Presbyterians. But General MacArthur called in thousands of Christian missionaries. He distributed thousands of Bibles. It wasn't as much of a success story as the Christian missionaries were in Korea after the Korean War, but you know how it was a success story? They have unprecedented religious freedom there, something that is absent in every Muslim country.

　ドイツ人ナチの方がまだ、同族意識をもちやすいのであろう、ところにも注目。

　アン・コールターは過激だが、しかし、こうした偏見が、　先ほどの、戦争に対する罪悪意識について論じた研究家 Berger氏　あるいは、英語圏の多くの白人記者たちに共有され、その影響がその記事に色濃くでていないとは言い切れない。

　


　異なる者たちに対する恐怖と憎しみ、それを克服する手段として同化政策というのは、わりに普遍的な現象で、日本ないし日本人のなかにもあり、アメリカ特有とはいえないが、しかし、権力を握ったものがこの恐怖と憎しみを動機とする政策行動をとると、その悪影響ははかりしれない。

　世界で現在一番権力を握っているのは、アメリカ”帝国”であり、また、アメリカ”帝国”の記者たちもそのいったんを握っているのである。

　

グローバルな”反米主義”

アルジャ


The roots of global anti-Americanism
Revelations of Korean rapper Psy's anti-American past are emblematic of a global resentment caused by US militarism.
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2012 12:44

カナダはトロントを拠点とした、作家による記事


アメリカ軍隊の介入により、直接、間接に世界中で犠牲者がでて、そのおかげで反米感情が世界規模になっている、というのだが、引用されているリンク記事が興味深い

Gangnam Rile: Psy’s Past Anti-American Performances Stir Controversy

By Nick CarboneDec. 08, 2012


Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/12/08/gangnam-rile-psys-past-anti-american-performances-stir-controversy/#ixzz2EldIaaWW


江南スタイルのあのおっさん、

While I’m grateful for the freedom to express one’s self I’ve learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I’m deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted. I will forever be sorry for any pain I have caused anyone by those words.

…

I have learned that though music, our universal language we can all come together as a culture of humanity and I hope that you will accept my apology.



Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/12/08/gangnam-rile-psys-past-anti-american-performances-stir-controversy/#ixzz2EldbFJBp

謝罪したんだね。


強い奴にはめっぽう弱い、というか・・・・・


反米歌手に熱狂するアメリカ人もどうかと思うが、一般人というのは、日本でもアメリカでも、海外でどう評価されているか、あまり知らないものだ。


Whose Security Is It? Military Violence Against Women During Peacetime
by Cathleen Caron*


The U.S. is not sorry enough ってところか？Ｔｉｍｅさんよ。


Tracing the Roots of
Anti-Americanism in
Latin America



U.S. has a 45-year history of torture
The difference between American involvement in South American atrocities in 1964 and 'enhanced interrogation' now is that some modern-day officials appear proud of themselves.
May 03, 2009|A.J. Langguth | A.J. Langguth is the author of "Hidden Terrors: The Truth About U.S. Police Operations in Latin America."

アメリカ　捕虜の拷問の歴史。



HALF OF WORLD’S REFUGEES ARE RUNNING FROM U.S. WARS

| America’s wars are forcing Afghans and Iraqis to flee their homes in greater numbers. According to a recent U.N. High Commission for Refugees study, nearly one half of the world’s refugees are from Afghanistan and Iraq, 3.05 million and 1.68 million, respectively. But neither the United States nor much of the developed world bears the burden of the 10.55 million refugees under the UNHCR’s purview globally. Instead, Pakistan, Iran, and Syria serve as the top host countries. The Economist has charted the numbers:

世界の難民の半分は、アメリカの戦争から逃走してきた人たちである、と。


Security
Drones: The Morality of War From the Sky
By Jeffrey Goldberg on October 11, 2012

one report by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates that between 2,562 and 3,325 people have been killed by drones in Pakistan since June 2004 and that of those, 474 to 881 were civilians.

US military facing fresh questions over targeting of children in Afghanistan
Outrage grows after senior officer claimed troops in Afghanistan were on the lookout for 'children with potential hostile intent'
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guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 December 2012

The US military is facing fresh questions over its targeting policy in Afghanistan after a senior army officer suggested that troops were on the lookout for "children with potential hostile intent".

In comments which legal experts and campaigners described as "deeply troubling", army Lt Col Marion Carrington told the Marine Corp Times that children, as well as "military-age males", had been identified as a potential threat because some were being used by the Taliban to assist in attacks against Afghan and coalition forces.

同じ論理で、無差別爆撃、そして、広島長崎に原爆投下されたわけですね。

American policy towards the Middle East today is popularly perceived to be informed by a cruel, arrogant and fundamentally racist worldview in which subject populations are essentially lesser peoples whose suffering is an accounted-for externality of hegemonic policies.

ふーん。




Racism and Islamophobia in America
By Eric Walberg
Global Research, August 13, 2011
13 August 2011

One of the many images that stand out to someone who grew up in North America and which Mihesua corrects is “Cowboys and Indians”, which should be “US Army and Indians” since “cowboys and Indians rarely fought each other. Besides, the first cowboys were Mexican Indians.” The English language itself reinforces the worst stereotypes, such as “Indian givers” (read: “US government givers”) and Columbus “discovering” America. Indeed, 1492 marks not a step forward in mankind’s history, but rather the beginning of the first and most horrific genocide in mankind’s history, with the premeditating killing of at least 10 million in North America alone.



It was the Dutch who introduced “scalping” to North America (to save transport costs for bounty hunters paid per Indian scalp): a revered tradition dating back to ancient Greece.




The Indians were just as “civilised” as the Europeans, in terms of technology and culture, though no North Americans had a writing system before the European invasion. Their societies were egalitarian, with division of labour according to sex, where the sexes were considered equal and each had their decision-making traditions. In fact the Iroquois Confederacy was used as a prototype by the American revolutionaries in writing the American Constitution




Following 9/11, the ceiling of acceptable hate-speech against Muslims, particularly Arabs, was blown off. “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity,” wrote Ann Coulter two days after 9/ 11. “We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.” Since 9/11, Muslims, Arabs, Iranians and Islam itself have been the objects of derision and hatred in public, on TV and radio, and in print.

Sheehi demonstrates how such bigotry was translated into a sustained domestic policy of racial profiling and Muslim- baiting by agencies such as Homeland Security and the Department of Justice. It condoned widespread surveillance by the government, profiling in the street, at airports, in mosques and universities. Muslims have their movements tracked, their associations, finances and charitable giving monitored. They are systematically spied on, coerced and persecuted.




Islamophobia has institutionalised US government violations of international law, such as freezing habeas corpus, torture, renditions, extrajudicial kidnappings and assassination, even total war against and occupation of sovereign countries. They are all justified using Islamophobic stereotypes, paradigms and analyses as well as foils such as Hirsi Ali and Manji.




Liberals such as Democratic leader Howard Dean argue that it would be “a real affront to people who lost their lives” on 9/11 to build an Islamic Center two blocks away from the World Trade Center. “I think it is great to have Mosques in American cities; there is a growing number of American Muslims.” But Dean says they should “become just like every other American, Americans who happen to be Muslims… I hope they will have an influence on Islam.” Translation: co-opt and assimilate Muslims into American culture, so as not to pose a threat to US hegemony, and work within Muslim communities globally to bring them into the American fold a la the Christian missionaries of old, willing handmaidens in the imperial project, what black Americans referred to derisively as “Uncle Toms”




The racism against Native Americans and Muslim Americans comes together in US Middle East policy, with the victimisation of Palestinians. US domestic racism is projected internationally on the Middle East in the unqualified support of Israel as a Jewish state, as argued by University of Illinois law professor Francis Boyle in The Palestinian Right of Return in International Law

なるほどねええ。


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.US eugenics victim: ‘I didn’t know what they were doing to me’
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Published: 11 December, 2012, 17:27

One of the most infamous uses of Eugenics was the racial purity program in Nazi Germany. The practice was introduced in the US many years before being adopted by the Nazi regime, however, serving as a model for inspiration later down the line.


Compensation debacle
To this day, none of the victims in the US have been compensated for their life-long suffering.

アメリカの雑誌が日本について書く場合の視点と、アルジャやＲＴやアメリカについて書く場合の視線がわりかし似ている点に注目。

　あの手のアメリカの雑誌がアメリカの世論形成をし、その世論形成に基づいてアメリカ議会が日本に関する決議をするわけで、慰安婦決議のときも、ＮＹＴのインチキ記事が一躍買ったわけだが、日米同盟での米国側の軍隊の発動にも、議会の議決が要るわけだろう？

　なにか甘い期待をしていないか？



シュピーゲル

12/11/2012

Military Mission
Paris Pushing for Risky Intervention in Mali

By Raniah Salloum and Stefan Simons

"In Mali, it is our own security that is at stake," French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said recently. "If we don't move, a terrorist entity will take shape, which could hit this or another country, including France, and including Europe."


France is already at work and has reportedly begun stationing surveillance drones in the country. The government in Paris is putting pressure on the UN Security Council to give the green light for a military mission before the end of the year. But the organization appears to have its doubts.

"A military operation may be required as a last resort to deal with the most hard-line extremist and criminal elements in the north," wrote UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a report to the Security Council. First, he said, there must be a "broad-based political dialogue" that would address the "long-standing grievances" of communities in the north. That point, he added, has not yet been reached.

フランスの勇み足を警戒しているのだが、しかし、いずれにせよ、フランスは早々にそして、国連も最終手段として、軍事介入というのが国際的感覚なわけだ。



因みに、核保有国の一覧
Ｇ８のほとんど国が核保有国か、各共有国なわけだ。



　なにがいいたいかというと、先進国やＧ８を引き合いにだして日本を批判するなら、こちらも真似るのが筋だろうということ。

　それで何がいいたいか、というと、先進国がやっているからといって正しいとは限らず、また、日本に必要だとも限らないわけで、ある論題について、賛否はあっていいが、とにかく、先進国がやっているから、やるべき、というのではなく、日本にとって必要で正しいからやる、という議論でなければ、いけない、ということ。


　欧米崇拝主義、欧米中心主義からはやく脱皮したいものだ。

アメリカの ”帝国主義化、白人至上主義化”

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私もわが国の「右傾化（ならず者化）」を強く憂う一人だけど、そんな私ですら、これ→ pic.twitter.com/WFHXKyxI"" はショックだった。タイム誌の表紙が日本をこう表現するのは戦後の歴史の中で初めてのことだろう。事態は思っている以上に深刻なのかもしれない。
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”帝国主義、白人至上主義”アメリカの雑誌を基準にして、日本をみると間違うことが多いーーーしっかり、自分で、資料集めて判断しようや。

Why Japan Is Still Not Sorry Enough

By Kirk SpitzerDec. 11, 2012

表題がまず、まずいと思わないところが深刻だ。

Is Japan as unrepentant about its past as its neighbors claim?

Yes. But it’s not as simple as that.

It’s true, Japan has not been as repentant as Germany or other countries that have faced up to the darker sides of their past. Japan has apologized for waging aggressive war and oppressing its neighbors, but those apologies have fumbling and awkward, and often been undercut by revisionist statements from senior politicians. Japan has offered relatively little compensation to the victims. And to this day there are no nationally sponsored museums or monuments that acknowledge Japanese aggression or atrocities.

たしかに、日本の一部の政治家の愚かの言動はあったが、しかし、ドイツは、戦時中の性奴隷について謝罪も補償もしていない。植民地化した国家に対する謝罪と補償もしていない。
ドイツではいまだにネオナチによる殺害事件まで起きている。

それと比較すれば、日本はましだろう。

欧米中心主義、白人国家をえこひいきする白人の著作家なんだろうな。

もっとも、その後の記述＊はわりに同意できる。





A Wave of Patriotism

By Hannah Beech / Tokyo Monday, Dec. 17, 2012

これは定期購読していないから、最後まで読んでいないが、好きだね、右傾化ネタ。年がら年中やっている。数年前も軍国主義化の日本特集していたから、いまごろは日本は、全体主義国家になっているのではないかな？

　日本が右傾化すると、アメリカがコントロールできなくって帝国主義、白人至上主義化が貫徹できなくなるのかな？　

　右傾化の主体である右翼の主流派は、親米で、白人崇拝しているから、大丈夫だよ、それほど心配するなって。


Next-gen US drone: now equipped with ‘death ray’ laser
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Published: 11 December,


　破壊光線付無人飛行機の開発。死ね死ね団かっつうの。


Democracy Now! · 308,073が「いいね！」と言っています
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“When we heard the Nobel Prize for peace would be given to the European Union, we first thought it was a joke,” says Dimitris Kodelas of the left-wing opposition group Syriza.

だって、何やかや、言ったってノーベル賞だって、欧米中心主義でしょ。

（もっとも、こうした批判が内部からでるところは欧米の偉大さでもある。）


Are we still committed to human rights for all?
The institutions and states that support fundamental human rights must act honestly, honourably and effectively.
Last Modified: 10 Dec 2012 13:24

In the context of the UN General Assembly vote on the Palestine's observer status in the UN, we had the profoundly distasteful exhibition of double standards by France and the United Kingdom in trying to extract promises from the Palestinian leaders that they would never seek to refer Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This cynical effort was led by the same parties who call daily for accountability for the Assad regime in Syria.

The issue here is not whether Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, but rather that two powerful States Parties of the Rome Statute for the ICC think it appropriate to impede even the prospect of an independent and impartial investigation by the court that they helped to create. This is grist to the mill for all those who claim that the ICC is nothing but an instrument of Western political interests and it relegates the people of Palestine to second class citizens in terms of the possible protection they can expect from the court.

フランスとイギリス、いつもは、偉そうなこと言っている人が多いがなあ。


自公で３００議席超す勢い、民主８０議席割れも

この勢いには不安を覚える。

自民党が駄目だから民主党、そして、次に、民主党が駄目だから、の選択肢に自民党しかなかったのか？



社説:集団的自衛権　憲法の歯止めが必要だ

「解釈は無限なり」で、現行憲法のままで、集団的自衛権の行使は可能だろう。

日米同盟は日本の安全保障政策の基盤であり、東アジアの安保環境は厳しさを増している。今後、日米の共同対処が求められる場面も想定されよう。日米同盟の効果的な運営に集団的自衛権行使が必要だとする政治的要請が強くなっている。

日米同盟を維持する限り、

１）アメリカの海外での戦争に日本が参加するか、

２）直接、参加しないで、例えば、在日米兵が日本で犯罪を犯しても逮捕できなかったり、アメリカの諸政策について、アメリカに有利なように日本がアメリカ服従的行動を強いられるか、

　この両方のバランスをとりながら凌いでいくしかない。

　対価なしに血を流してまで、他国や他国人を護ってくれる国家などありはしない。

　で、いざとなったら、どうなるか、それもわかったものじゃない。

　リメンバー慰安婦決議！




米国家情報会議予測:３０年に覇権国家なし…日本衰退続く
毎日新聞　2012年12月11日　21時32分

　【ワシントン白戸圭一】米中央情報局（ＣＩＡ）など米国の情報機関を統括する「国家情報会議」は１０日、２０３０年の国際情勢を予測する報告書を発表した。米国が圧倒的な力を誇った時代は終焉（しゅうえん）し、世界の「ヘゲモニー（覇権10+件）」を握る国は存在しないと分析。日本については少子高齢化と人口減少で「衰退が続いている」と結論付けた。

　報告書は４年に１度発表され、今回が５回目。３０年に至る国際社会では「力の拡散」が進むと分析し、米国は総合的国力では依然トップだが「パックス・アメリカーナは終焉しつつある」とした。中国は２０年代に米国を抜いて最大の経済大国になるが、少子高齢化によって１６年を境に労働力人口が減少に転じるため「年率８～１０％の高度成長は昔の記憶になる」と指摘。代わってインドが急速な成長を遂げ、中国との差を縮めるとの見通しを示した。

　日本の将来については「急速に高齢化が進展し、長期的な成長の潜在力をむしばむ」と悲観的な見通しを示し、高齢化と人口減少が政府の財政再建の取り組みに制約を加えると分析した。

　また、アジアの将来について、ナショナリズムが高揚する中国とアジアでの影響力維持を狙う米国の間で緊張が高まり、日本、韓国、インド、豪州などが「経済は中国、安全保障は米国」という志向を強めると予測した。

ますます、安全保障を米国に頼ることになるわけだ。



２０３０年に覇権国家は存在せず　米中「直接対峙」の懸念も　米報告書
2012.12.11 14:37 ［中国］

　【ワシントン＝犬塚陽介】米中央情報局（ＣＩＡ）などの政府情報機関で構成する国家情報会議（ＮＩＣ）は１０日、２０３０年の世界情勢を予測した報告書を発表した。米国の影響力が相対的に低下し、２０年代には中国が世界最大の経済大国になると分析する一方で、米中を含め「いかなる国も覇権国家にはならない」と予測。アジアでの緊張の高まりが、国際社会の脅威になりかねないと指摘した。

　報告書によると、アジアは３０年までに人口、国民総生産（ＧＤＰ）、軍事費などで突出した存在になると指摘。インドやブラジル、コロンビア、インドネシア、ナイジェリア、南アフリカ、トルコも台頭し、世界経済のカギを握ると予測した。

　新興国の台頭で「パックス・アメリカーナ（米国主導の平和）」の時代は急速に終わりに向かうと分析する一方で、米国に取って代わる超大国の出現も考えられず、引き続き主要国の先導役の地位は保つとの見通しも示した。

　特にアジアでは、中国のナショナリズムの台頭が域内の不安定化につながりかねないと警告。友好国が中国に対抗する能力や意思を持たなければ、米国は「中国と直接対峙するリスク」を負っても、関与を強めることになりかねないと予測し、地域全体の「安定した安全保障の枠組み」の重要性を強調した。

　中国については、持続可能な経済成長モデルへの転換の必要性を強調。貧富の格差やチベット、ウイグル問題で「深い分断」が顕著になれば、中国政府は国民の目をそらすため、「予測不能で攻撃的」な姿勢に転じる可能性もあるとした。

　日本については「急速な高齢化と人口の減少」が成長の阻害要因になっていると論じた。国家の存亡に関わる自然災害にも触れ、東京は津波被害で「最も危険にさらされる世界的都市」と指摘した。

しかしまあ、日本は危機感がないね。
マスコミが、例えば、小沢問題に費やして時間で、一体日本はどれだけよくなったのだろうか？

記者たちは、例えば、少子高齢化問題、とか、労働力の流動性問題、とか、女性の地位向上問題とか、編集部の部屋にでかく張って、つねに日本が直面する優先順位の高い問題を意識してほしいものだ、

社会的弱者が不審者として、排除される社会

こういうのももっと新聞記事にするといいね。

＊
So why can’t the Japanese just say, “We were wrong. We’re sorry”?

Apologizing is a costly business for leaders of any country, and requires the investment of a great deal of political capital. Apologies tend to be given when there is a belief that those apologies will be accepted, at least in part, and that dialogue between the two sides will be advanced. So unless there are strong reasons to do so, most leaders avoid it.

American readers may recall how difficult it has been for us to come to terms with the legacy of slavery and institutionalized racism. Issues like the atomic bombings of Japan and the massacre of insurgents in the Philippines remain difficult for American politicians to address ― if they are aware of them as issues at all.

The problem is, in China and Korea there has been very little readiness to accept Japan’s efforts to promote reconciliation, and as a result, those efforts have tended to founder.

So it’s all Japan’s fault?



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No, the Koreans and the Chinese bear a large share of the blame. With the Koreans, there has been an unwillingness to help the Japanese find ways of reconciling when the Japanese have tried to do so. This was most apparent with the Asian Women’s Fund, which the Korean government did not support and in fact subverted by establishing a separate, rival support system for the former comfort women. This has been made worse by the tendency of Korean politicians to score cheap points by very publicly taking out their frustrations with Japan ― as when President Lee Myung-bak went to Dokdo/Takeshima recently.

There is good reason to question whether the Chinese really want or care about reconciliation. When Jiang Zemin went to Tokyo in 1998, he hectored the Japanese about the past in ways that prevented the Japanese from offering the kind of written apology that they gave South Korea President Kim Dae-jung that same year.

Chinese leaders have preferred taking a hard line on Japan. This has been especially so when there are divisions in the Chinese leadership, and on a deeper level may have something to do with the Chinese leadership being deeply worried about their legitimacy. While Korean leaders are frequently unpopular, there is strong support for the Korean political system and pride in its democratic institutions, but Chinese leaders need to strike a nationalistic tone in part because there is greater internal skepticism about one-party rule.

Most other countries in Asia seemed to have moved on, haven’t they? Why are things different China and Korea? Was it because the occupations lasted longer, or because more people were killed there?

A lot of people died in Indonesia, Vietnam, and elsewhere, too. But Southeast Asians have been generally willing to forgive the Japanese. And the Japanese were in Taiwan even longer than in Korea, but anti-Japanese attitudes there are weak or non-existent.

To my mind, the key difference is how modern nationalism was created in those countries. Chinese and Korean nationalism is in many ways defined itself against Japan. In contrast, the national identity of most Southeast Asian countries was defined in opposition to their old colonial masters. In Indonesia, the focus was the Dutch, in Malaysia it was the British, and in the Philippines it was the United States. Taiwan is also instructive here, since the pro-democratic movement focused its resentment against domination by mainland China, first under the Nationalists and more recently against the PRC.



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