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See No Evil, See No Good:
The Truth Is Not Black and White
By Matthew Johnson
511 words
It is hard to watch TV these days without seeing reports pertaining to the recent death of the elder George Bush — former president, CIA director, and whitewashed war criminal. I call him a "whitewashed war criminal" because there are inconvenient truths that the mainstream media would rather ignore in favor of the usual hero worship that accompanies the death of a popular politician (see also: coverage on the death of John McCainor, even more egregiously, Richard Nixon). Sprucing up our departed politicians, disgraced or otherwise, seems to be a nod to our most respected civil discourse values, but it’s not a favor to the truth and the whitewashing only makes it more likely to happen again.
Perhaps the most inconvenient truth relating to war crimes of Bush the Elder involves Panama in 1989. Under the guise of protecting democracy, then-President Bush illegally invaded a sovereign nation that posed no threat to the United States, calling it "Operation Just Cause," in order to remove its ruler — with disastrous results. The U.S. government acknowledges that at least 300 Panamanian civilians were killed, but other sourceshave estimated that as many as several thousand were killed with tens of thousands displaced. At best you could call it an overreaction to Noriega's involvement in drug trafficking and a peculiar form of democracy promotion. The era of slaughtering civilians as acceptable collateral damage is over in the eyes of international law and simple decency. Bush could have resolved that contretemps without Panamanian children and other noncombatants dying.
At the time, Bush was facing criticism at home for being a "wimp." Apparently, cutting civilians down removed that label and cleared a line of sight to his next adventure, into Kuwait and Iraq, where his forces engaged in a “turkey shoot”(the words of some of the aircraft gunners who mowed down defenseless fleeing Iraqi conscripts).
But those are simple examples from the George H. W. Bush White House years, a one-term run. What of the rest of his life? We’ve heard the encomiums, but the gaps and omissions that are not so flattering need to be a part of the record, if not harped on in the immediate time of a person’s funeral or memorial.
Bush was Nixon’s Chair of the Republican National Committee during the Watergate scandal, not a praiseworthy time for most ranking Republicans, and he committed some nefarious political acts in that role. His role in the war crimescommitted by the Contra in Nicaragua is another very dirty, lethal episode, exposed briefly some 30 years ago.
So, please, yes, let’s be respectful at funerals and in first announcements, but when the truth is buried alongside the bodies it is of poor service to history, to American self-assessment, and to respect for the whole truth. We have little patience for Germans who deny their Nazi history, no fondness for Japanese who forget that they were brutal aggressors in the 1930s and ‘40s. We expect others to learn from studying both their accomplishments and their horrific mistakes. We can expect no less of ourselves.
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Matt Johnson, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is co-author of Trumpism.
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Undocumented Citizen
By Andrew Moss
847 words
When Jose Antonio Vargas was sixteen years old, he discovered that his green card was a fake. Unbeknownst to the grandparents with whom he was living in Mountain View, California, the young Filipino immigrant took himself to the Department of Motor Vehicles for a driver's license, only to be told by the clerk that his card was fraudulent: "This is fake. Don't come back here again."
Vargas, who had been sent to the U.S. by his mother at the age of 12 (with the misplaced hope that she'd be able to follow him) was stunned and disoriented. He soon learned that the "uncle" who accompanied him on the flight from Manila was a smuggler hired by his grandfather, and he found himself as a teenager questioning all his relationships and his capacity for trust. Yet he persevered as one of the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., succeeding in school and in college, and ultimately finding his way as a journalist, all the while engaging in what he called the common moves of undocumented people: "lying, passing, and hiding."
Recently Vargas came out with a new book, Dear America: Notes from an Undocumented Citizen, and in it he bears witness to the "homelessness" that he and others experience: not a traditional kind of homelessness, "but the unsettled, unmoored psychological state that undocumented immigrants like me find ourselves in." Vargas argues that if the politics of immigration are ever to change, the "culture in which immigrants are seen" has to change, and to this end he has dedicated his writing, his documentary-making, and his public appearances to storytelling that can help change the image of immigrants and the understanding of immigration in American life.
Vargas writes compellingly, not from a place of abstract ideals but from deeply felt personal experience. When, as a young man, he was awarded an internship at the Washington Post, he felt an old anxiety creep up: "I always thought I was taking someone else's spot. I had internalized this anxiety from years of hearing the they're-taking-our-jobs narrative about 'illegals'." Years later, after finding out that he and colleagues from the Post had been awarded a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the 2007 Virginia Tech mass shootings, he found it unbearable to continue hiding his undocumented status, and eventually he came out in 2011 in a confessional essay he wrote for the New York Times Magazine: "My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant." Coming out presented Vargas with new opportunities and challenges, and, overcoming some initial reluctance, he agreed to accept an increasingly public role.
Vargas's stories from this phase of his life highlight the depersonalizing ways in which undocumented people are often seen and represented. He tells of appearing on a Fox News show with Megyn Kelly, not knowing in advance that another guest would be interviewed along with him: a woman named Laura Wilkerson, whose son Josh had been killed by an undocumented immigrant. In describing the interview later, Vargas writes compassionately about Wilkerson, but he doesn't withhold comment about the way she sought to pigeonhole him. She said, "I think if you're not a United States citizen, you don't have a seat at the table regardless, especially where you're making laws." Vargas comments, "But I was seated next to her. We were sharing a table."
In writing Dear America, Vargas composed his own story about what it means to be undocumented. Drawing on the immediacy of personal experience, he was able to write with authority about larger issues at stake, including America's responsibility for helping create many of the political and economic circumstances that continue to drive so many migrants to our borders.
But it's the focus on language itself that I believe constitutes one of Vargas' most significant contributions. At a time when dehumanizing speech and writing help propel much of the violence behind our current immigration policies, whether those policies result in the caging of children or the teargassing of families, Vargas points to the need for a new language that can help us understand migration and migrants with compassion and discernment.
There are, of course, existing ironies: the way, for example, that phrases like "removable alien," "undocumented person," and "Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist" all currently apply to Vargas himself. But there's also a new language in formation, a language symbolized by the seemingly contradictory phrase, "undocumented citizen." In using that phrase, Vargas takes the idea of citizenship beyond birthright or privilege and associates it with a higher concept of participation. He invites us to recognize the 11 million undocumented citizens among us as people who contribute and participate in countless ways. Vargas is one of these 11 million, telling stories that help change the language, thereby helping change our understandings of ourselves.
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Andrew Moss, syndicated by PeaceVoice,is an emeritus professoratthe California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he taught a course, “War and Peace inLiterature,” for 10years.
