Eight years of Bush, six years of Obama, and so little has
changed.
Fourteen years after the 9/11 attacks, the United States
continues to embrace a bipartisan strategy of sanctioning, containing and
occupying the Middle East.
In the last month the Green Party has spoken out on the
opportunity for a pivot in Iran, Syria, and throughout the Middle East.
“We’re
seeing a maniacal push by Republicans and many Democrats towards a military
confrontation with Iran based on a nuclear weapons threat that doesn’t exist,”
party leaders said in a statement. “It’s a repeat of the kind of public
deception and propaganda that the Bush-Cheney Administration used to justify an
invasion of Iraq in 2003.”
Why are U.S. warhawks striving for regime change — a serious
violation of international laws?
The Green Party continues to push for peaceful, diplomatic
efforts to resolve conflicts in the Middle East. And it asserts that
nonviolence and the right of all people to enjoy human rights, security, and
self-determination must be the foundation for foreign policy.
The quest for political hegemony and control over oil
resources in these regions have only aggravated tensions and led to blowback
like the emergence of the Islamic State.
The blowback has also arisen in the form of an international
refugee crisis that is flooding the shores of Europe and is reaching all the
way to North America.
"When the U.S. invaded Afghanistan and Iraq in the last
decade and ousted Qaddafi in Libya in 2011, the result was an era of regional
instability and violence in countries between Pakistan and Nigeria. Greens
warned that this would happen and opposed all of these actions."
Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia,
southeast Turkey, Sudan, and northeast Nigeria have either been triggered or
aggravated by U.S. invasions, interventions, and drone assaults. ISIS has found
a foothold in areas destabilized by U.S. actions.
In the long term, we can avoid creating further crises by
electing Greens to the U.S. House and Senate, where they can stand up to
continued funding for drone bombings, interventions in search of illegal regime
change, and crippling sanctions. The Green Party can change the future - but we
need you to act now!
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