Raymond Mancini, Providence Journal - France’s aggressive action in the Middle East and in northern parts of Africa as well as a stronger relationship with the United States is a plausible reason for the attacks in France on Charlie Hebdo and the Paris supermarket. This does not mean that France and America are to blame; it means that policies initiated by government officials are.
Sensationalist accusations that label terrorist attacks as fights against freedom of speech and democracy are propagandized statements that gear nations toward war. Instead of justifying the attacks as assaults against freedom and democracy, officials that implement interventionist strategies should ask themselves: Could I be wrong? Are the terrorists attacking this country because we are free or because we attacked them?
France and the United States have engaged in interventionist foreign policy the past few years. It has led to preemptive war, and cost the lives of many people. Rethinking this foreign policy would not be a bad idea.
Raymond Mancini, is a senior at Rocky Hill School, in East Greenwich, RI
1 comment:
Excuse me, theres a war going on in the Ottoman Empire and a civil war, similar to SE Asia around weak China in 50s . You want peace? Or is that unpatriotic. Not according to Ike in the Cross of Iron speech, peace is the goal, why there used to be a UN.
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