World Peace

As I read Come September and Area Studies, Gender studies and the Cartographies of Knowledge I was drawn to Come September because the language was easy to understand. Come September is interesting in that it gives examples on how many Americans are oblivious to what’s happening both inside and outside America with politics, economics, and war. Come September describes the conflict between power and the powerless. It describes several incidents that happened on September 11 throughout history just as two planes slammed into the World Trade Center on September, 11, 2001. Many Americans do not know, or probably do not care, or are too busy with work to concentrate on what is going on in the world.

One point that the author of Come September makes about control is Saddam Hussein and how he was a puppet under control of the United States. Saddam Hussein before the first gulf war in the 90’s received weapons and traded with the U.S. Saddam constructed towns and small villages to test out machine guns and biological weapons thus slaughtering thousands of people meanwhile the U.S was funding him. According to the essay Sadaam Hussein took it upon himself to act independently from the United States and invaded Kuwait thus the first gulf war resulted. The point is that the U.S knew about the slaughtering and ignored it until Sadaam Hussein decided to invade Kuwait. Thus the U.S. went to war with Iraq to remove Sadaam from power.

Another example the Author brings up is that there are three institutions that run the world today. That’s The International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, and The World Trade Organization. The author describes them as secretive and are primarily dominated be the U.S. The point I believe the author is trying to make is that the current Governing system is going to break because there are too many poor people that have nothing to lose. These people will strap bombs to them and blow up civilians’ just too combat democracy and capitalization. There are many people in this world that feel bullied by the United States. According to the essay the U.S. funds Israelites with weapons and money. The Israelites in return exterminate the Palestine’s from their land so the U.S. can use the Gaza Strip for strategic purposes. They are treated as second class citizens and live in fear every day. Not a good way to treat humans. Is the United States being looked at in a good way by the world?

Many Americans are oblivious to what is going on in the world. America is sheltered and the government and its secret organizations are making power moves in the world that may have long-term negative effects not only for America but for everybody. The problem is the status quo of our current governing system is a distorted democracy. It is an illusion to blind people from seeing the truth. The United States Government which is considered to be a democracy “for the people, of the people, by the people” is more or a dictatorship with capitalism, control, and power as the primary objective, not the welfare of people. Our government t is set up to repress citizens with the burden of debt, credit cards, mortgage loans, and outrageously high interest rates. Credit card companies prey on our vulnerable youth. What a genius plan. Don’t educate people, apply a heavy financial burden and make them work their entire lives supporting the madness. The point here is that not everybody in America can focus on what is happening with the world and the government wants to keep it that way. The government has to maintain control somehow and not educating people is a good way to control them.

The Author says “It’s hard for me to say this, but ‘the American Way of life’ is simply not sustainable. Because it doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America. Fortunately, power has a shelf life.” I believe this to be true.

I hope one day the world will be a paradise where greed, money, and power are not the objectives and peace, love and happiness are. Always remember the golden rule “treat others as you would want to be treated.”