Is the United States Army officially teaching anti-Arab racism?

Is the United States Army
officially teaching anti-Arab racism?  It
would seem so and the evidence is in black and white.

After everything else, here
is a document issued to American military personnel on how to
"relate" to Arabs in Iraq.  While one could reasonably
assume that there would be some inaccuracies as translations of cultural
literacy between societies can be confusing, does it always need to be so
ignorant on the part of European Westerners?

This is an insulting
document on a variety of levels.  I feel as if I am reading a copy of a
hand-out to British soldiers post World War One when they created Iraq in 1920 under a
mandate issued by the League of Nations.  It is so ethnically biased
and completely unrealistic in terms of Arabic cultural traditions that to
charge racism in such a case only points out what is clearly obvious. 
American military personnel were indoctrinated in anti-Arab ethno-cultural monstrosities
at the onset of the invasion for purposes of de-humanising the Iraqi
populace.  This goes a long way in understanding
how Abu Ghraib could occur although it should be understood by all that
atrocities transpire by all sides in all conflicts.  The premise of the “good war” rationalization
is a canard.

It is a psychologically
proven fact that the chief objective of the use of propaganda is to not only discredit
the targeted subject, but to also bring into question the personal humanity of
the quarry.  Bestowing Americans with
authority over a captive population in a colonial situation with literature presenting
Arabs as buffoonish, stubborn and irresponsible before they even come into
contact with the country’s inhabitants is colonial practise by definition.  This is no different in tone or tenor from
Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden,” that classic blueprint for Pax Anglo uber
alles at the time written to morally defend the American war of domination
against the Philippines, a three-year slaughter which liquidated more than one
million persons of the Aboriginal population.  (Many Indigenous activists put the number at
half of the native population.)

Possessing diminutive to
zero familiarity with Arabic people or culture is one thing, to supply
blatantly bigoted material to American military personnel is quite the other.  It shows that the United States is entirely deceitful in its claims
to racial/ethnic harmony and is actively exporting this uniquely distinguishable
form of chauvinism to its colonial holdings in Western Asia. 
One could suppose this is the new Americanisation of Iraq.

But it isn’t.  It is a continuation of classical European
expansionist misinformation to programme the ‘Hearts and Minds’ of those called
upon to perform acts rational human beings would find repulsive.  War and repression are not universally
embraced ideals.  On the whole, those who
possess material means and the reins of socio-political and economic power customarily
strive to retain such status by any means necessary including the use of brute
force.  It is the victims of the
insecurities of the privileged that abhor perpetual conflict.  Not because they have nothing to fight for,
but because before invasion from those who had nothing, they had all they
needed and shared it uniformly.  Mainstream
pedagogical studies today call such cultural ethics, “Proofs of their instinctive
ignorance.”

While I personally find this
attitude insulting on a visceral level, I cannot accept such estimations as valid
even objectively on the grounds of the unscientific raison d'être of the document
in question.  If this pamphlet was intended
to facilitate cultural understanding between the American colonial force in Iraq and the native population it fails
and miserably so.  If my deconstruction
is at all accurate then what we have here is solid confirmation of the sort of
mental indoctrination the U.S. military employs to psychologically
train soldiers serving in occupational circumstances.   

They have learned quite a
bit from the Third Reich office of State Propaganda haven’t they?  - The Angryindian    

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