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Lev Khariton:Kasparov Goes to War - 2006/11/11 23:15
Kasparov Goes to War
By Lev Khariton
On May 19th Wall StreetJournal (http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005100)
carried another editorial by Garri Kasparov entitled “Stop the
Moral Equivalence".
Whenever I read such “exciting” stuff” I always ask myself whether such people as Kasparov or other ideologists of never-ending bloodshed have ever held a gun their hands, or used a parachute, or crossed a minefield. Did they ever experience the fear and horror of those bombed by tomahawks or exposed to cluster boms?
Years ago one of my friends who happened to penetrate Kasparov’s chess camp told me that Kasparov is scared of an ordinary pimple or wart on his skin imagining that it might turn into a malignancy. How could such a man pampered by his mother until now be so militant and aggressive to those people who fall casualties of massacre, invasions and occupations, no matter in which part of the words they are happening? And I find no answer to these questions. Possibly because there is no answer except that human lies, hypocrisy, blood-thirstiness and cruelty know no limits. Kasparov knows for whom he is writing. He is not only lavishly renumerated for each such publication in the most prestigious US right-wing paper. He, as many other businessmen,knows pretty well that this permanent war on terror would eventually bring about sky-rocketing gains on their shares on the Stock Exchange.
In such a context, would they care about any shame, remorse and pangs of conscience? No would Kasparov bother himself to compare what he wrote last year and what he is professing today.. Of course, he will always justify himself by saying that the situation in the world is changing and he has to adjust to the new circumstances.In this respect, he is no different from any average mobster. Only yesterday he was speaking about the weapons of mass destruction, calling for
President Bush to bomb Iraq as well as other Islamic countries. He used to speak about spreading American freedom to different parts of the world. Today, knowing about the atrocities and tortures committed by US GIs in Iraq, he is taking out his new “card” –
“democracy versus tyranny.
“We have seen,- writes Kasparov,- 25 years of anti-Western propaganda and hatred emanating from Iran, not only against Israel and the U.S. but against the liberal values that make up the core of our civilization”.As to those “liberal values” Kasparov who visits only the bright part of New York, probably, does not know about the daily crimes committed in the Big Apple and cronicled practically every minute of the TV time. Regarding the hatred emanating from Iran and the anti-Western propaganda, I would like to ask this question: does not Kasparov or any other Western ideologist understand that behind this hatred is not the religious animosity but the deeply-rooted economic and social inequalities of the East and the
West? For years the West has been disregarding the needs of the East.
More than that,such upstarts “nouveaxriches” as Bahrain,
Qatar,Kuweit, let alone such giants as Saudi Arabia and Egypt, have never lent a helping hand to the poorest in their region. Imagine that, let us say, Saudi Arabia could help economically the
Palestinians, would we have faced today all the tragedies of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Or, supposing that the leaders of all these oriental contries could try to influence Saddam as regards the looming aggression of the United States against his country, would
Iraq have suffered the nightmare today?
Kasparov, although calling himself a historian, does not try to analyse the historical background of today’s ‘war on terror’. I think he has neither wish no knowledge to do so. War, war and war! Targeting, as he puts it, real terrorists no matter what collateral human toll could be.The new ‘humanism’ of the
21st century!
As I said, Kasparov knows what he is doing. Just out of curiosity, I opened up the page with his readers’ responses at Wall Street
Journal. Almost all of them applaud him, calling him a great chess strategist (as if they know what chess strategy is!), a great expert on world affairs. One of them even admires his English.I am sure that the English of his articles is not his. There are experienced editors and translators who work for WSJ. I remember how in 1986 (Kasparov had already graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages in Baku) his trainer Alexander Nikitin asked me to translate from English into
Russian one article from ‘New in Chess” for
Garik.”But he knows English, - exclaimed. “Not enough to translate that, - answered Nikitin..
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