地球上で人間を最も多く殺害しているのは何者であるか？
第１位は蚊。
これは何となく理解できます。
蚊は年間７４万人を殺害している。マラリアとかで。
第２位はアメリカ政府。正確には豊かなアメリカ大陸を、実質的に支配しつづけている困った勢力。戦争大好きで金融が大好きな武器商人。１％の困った連中。
米戦争屋ネオコンが世界の戦争や争いや不幸をつくりだしていることについては、何年も前から言語学者のノーム・チョムスキーが告発していたことです。
アメリカにも良心のある人が居て、少しずつでも増えていると感じます。
ロシアのスプートニクに興味深い記事がアップされていました。
米国の元外交官のダン・シムプソン氏が
｢米国が、武器取引を続け、戦争を引き起こしている間は、地上に平和は訪れない｣
と語ったそうです。
２０１６年は画期的によい年になるのではないか。
ロシアの報道機関スプートニクは、いまや世界標準の最も信頼されるべき報道機関になりつつありますね。
若い人にもスプートニクを毎日チェックすることを勧めています。
以下、当該記事：
●米国の元外交官で一連の国々の大使を務めた経験を持つダン・シムプソン氏は｢米国が、武器取引を続け、戦争を引き起こしている間は、地上に平和は訪れない｣と語った。
http://jp.sputniknews.com/us/20160102/1399152.html
新聞「Pittsburgh Post-Gazette｣は、｢地球の平和？米国が武器取引を止め、戦争を始めている間は無理｣というタイトルのシムプソン元大使の記事を掲載した。
記事の内容を抜粋して、以下お伝えする-「2015年末の段階で、米国について述べるならば、次のような結論に達する。それは『我々は、まるで殺人民族だ。自分達の家の中でも。外国でも人を殺している』というものだ。
国内で、米政府は、規制することもなく武器を売らせ、その事は、教会や学校も含め、あらゆる場所での殺人行為を引き起こしている。一方国外で、米国人は、殺し屋とみなされている。
他の国々は、米国が自分達に己の意思を押し付けないよう、自分の神、あるいは神々に祈るしかない。彼らは、米国が、己の目から見て相応しい統治形態を、自分達の元で確立しようとしないよう、また爆弾を投下したり、指導者を殺害するために無人機を飛ばしたりするための口実として何らかの自分達の違反行為を利用したりしないよう、ただ祈るしかない。
イラクやアフガニスタンから、リビアまで米国により破壊され、イエメンは、米国の援助のもとサウジアラビアが破壊している。
外国人の大部分は、米国は、世界共同体に脅威をもたらす狂人のように思っている。
米国の所謂『同盟国』のいくつかは、殺人をよしとする我々の傾向をいくらか抑えようとするだけだ。例えば、英国がそうだ。
米国が、自分達の武器の巨大市場にしたいと欲しているインドが、米国とでなくロシアと関係を持つことをよしとするのも偶然ではない。
米国は、自分達の軍部隊を祖国に戻さなくてはならない。我々が、それをしないうちは、この地上に平和はない。
さあ米国よ、人殺しを止めようではないか！」
Daniel H. Simpson
Daniel Howard Simpson (born July 9, 1939[1] in Wheeling, West Virginia) is an American former Foreign Service Officer. He was the United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic (1990–92), Special Envoy to Somalia and the United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1995–98) as well as undertaking other overseas assignments in Burundi, South Africa, Zaire (on three separate occasions) Iceland, Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He also served as the Deputy Commandant of the United States Army War College and on the Board of directors as the Vice President of the National Defense University for the United States Institute of Peace.
Before joining the United States Foreign Service and becoming a diplomat in 1966, Simpson studied English literature at Yale University and African studies at Northwestern University,before travelling Africa to teach at the Eghosa Anglican Boys’ School in Benin City, Nigeria, and at the Libyan Army Military College in Benghazi, Libya.
After retirement from the Department of State in 2001, Simpson has been a writer and columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Blade as well as a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy.
元記事は以下：
●Dan Simpson: Peace on Earth? Not until the U.S. stops selling arms and making war
http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2015/12/30/Dan-Simpson-Peace-on-Earth-Not-until-the-U-S-stops-selling-arms-and-making-war/stories/201512290018
By Dan Simpson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Reviewing the bidding on the United States at the end of 2015, I conclude that we are a killer nation, at home and abroad.
The segment of our society that benefits most from this role, again, at home and abroad, is the arms industry. At home, it sells the guns that are used, virtually without control, to slaughter innocent groups of people, including in churches and schools. Our corrupt and conscienceless federal and state legislators lack the courage and brains to stop it. And this is not just about the National Rifle Association; it is also about the arms manufacturers and dealers that finance the NRA so that it can exercise influence in Washington and state capitals.
Overseas, we are considered killers. Other countries can only pray to their chosen god or gods that the United States does not decide to work its will on them, whether it be to impose a form of government we think they should adopt or to cite some supposed wrong they have committed as an excuse to pour bombs down upon them or send drones to kill their leaders.
Like it or not, that is our reputation. Most foreigners I meet think we are crazy. Virtually all think we are a danger to world society.
Some of our so-called allies take our side in an attempt to exercise some sort of control over our homicidal tendencies. I put the British in that category.
Some countries just want to stay away from us, and, most of all, not to depend on us for anything. An example is India. U.S. government and private arms salesmen have worked for years to make India a big client for American weapons. India has chosen instead to smile at Americans but to continue to buy its arms from Russia — the Russia led by the notorious Vladimir V. Putin, as opposed to the America led by the adorable Barack H. Obama. Could it be that India is aware that American arms are invariably accompanied by American military advisers to train and support their foreign customers?
So where are we as 2015 draws to a close?
We are in Afghanistan, where we started in 2001 right after 9/11. We are in Iraq, where President George W. Bush took us on false premises in 2003 to get himself re-elected as a wartime president.
We have lost 2,332 troops in Afghanistan over the past 14 years — another six last week — and 4,425 in Iraq. We still maintain thousands of troops in each country, a tribute to our having put into place governments that cannot sustain themselves. U.S. special forces have just helped the Iraqis retake Ramadi, which we have fought for before, this time from the Islamic State group. Last time it was the Sunnis who rose up there. In Afghanistan we are fighting again to hold onto places that otherwise would fall to the Taliban and which may, in fact, fall to the Taliban despite our efforts.
Why are we doing this? I thought the argument Ronald Reagan made in 1986, that if we didn’t fight the Communists in Nicaragua we would have to fight them in Harlingen, Texas, was as dead as the charlatans who governed us at that time. Does anyone really believe that whether Ramadi in Iraq or Sangin in Afghanistan is in “friendly” hands makes any difference to Americans? Even to ask that is to imagine that the Abadi government in Iraq and the Ghani government in Afghanistan are “friendly” hands, a Washington fantasy as close to credibility as a Ted Cruz or Hillary Clinton campaign ad.
I suppose Mr. Obama’s efforts to finish his term without seeing Afghanistan or Iraq collapse into total chaos can be put down to some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder or campaign loyalty to his former Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton. It is long past time that we should have taken the position that we’d done all we could in Afghanistan and Iraq and brought our troops home.
What else have we done? We wrecked Libya. Moammar Gadhafi was an egomaniacal pest, even though he eventually relinquished his nuclear-weapons program. But what has taken his place, in large part due to decisions by Mr. Obama’s government, including Ms. Clinton, is two aspiring “national” governments and many lawless local militias, now including the Islamic State, as well as uncontrolled migration to Europe.
In support of our ally and major arms purchaser, Saudi Arabia, we have helped to destroy Yemen. The Saudis have bombed it into the Stone Age, and I have yet to hear anyone in the White House or the Pentagon say there are no U.S. pilots in Saudi cockpits. Yemen already was the poorest country in the Middle East.
U.S. involvement in the Yemen conflict also puts us right in the middle of the Sunni-Shiite conflict within Islam. There is just no reason in the world for us to be involved in an intra-Islamic conflict. The reason we are is American arms manufacturers’ commitments to after-purchase support of weapons they’ve sold to Saudi Arabia. I don’t think we sold them the swords they use to cut off the heads of accused criminals.
The United States also has used the absence of government in Somalia and the venality of the government of Djibouti to establish a military outpost in Djibouti. There are now thousands of U.S. troops, fighter bombers and a drone base there, with no good reason. This represents an unneeded, Pentagon supply-driven intervention in Africa.
We should bring our forces home. There will be no peace on Earth until we do. Let us not be killers.
Dan Simpson, a former U.S. ambassador, is a Post-Gazette associate editor (dsimpson@post-gazette. com, 412-263-1976).
