White House vision
To have the same rights as other nations such as being able to learn their own language and determine their own destiny, the people of my origin have been fighting four undemocratic regimes. These regimes have called them tribal, radical, separatist, and even racist. Surprisingly, the White House at times also uses not all but some of those words pejoratively to describe the assertive faction of our people who seek independence.
I am wondering if today Indians were still under the British mandate, would they have been called tribal for their fight to end colonialism. If Israelis were still facing the Nazi regime and hoped for a state of their own to protect themselves and their heritage, would they have been called radicals? If different nations in the East Block were still under Russian mandate and demanded free choice and independence, would they have been called separatists? If the South African blacks were still treated as subhuman, would they have been called racist for fighting apartheid? I hope the answer is no. Fortunately the world has changed for better in regard to the situation of all of those previously disadvantaged nations.
Despite the change in the world, the situation of our people, the largest stateless nation in the Middle East, today in the 21st century is still worse than the situation of Indians, Israelis, South African blacks, and Eastern European nations during the 20th century . It is understandable that the opposing and undemocratic regimes do not approve liberty and free choice for anyone, let alone self determination rights for our people. What is not understandable is why the White House, which has supported the change in the World, still thinks our people should be under the mandate of Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and Syria. Maybe it has to do with poor vision.
Ottoman and Persian empires had double vision when seeing themselves in the mirror and were colourblind when looking at the disadvantaged nations. They paid for their double vision and colourblindness such a heavy price that their followers lost all their vision. Is it possible that White House has also difficulty with the vision? Interestingly the White House so far has only housed presidents that matched the colour of the house, which has been a dominant colour in the political life of Americans. Maybe the founders of the White House had double vision and saw themselves twice as important as the others. Maybe they were colourblind and could not see any other matching colour for the house but white.
Maybe the current resident of the house need to correct the vision, or change the colour of the house so that it could house people with a different colour in the future! With correction of the vision, the White House might also see that the undemocratic regimes in the Middle East need to be changed to colourful voluntary unions such federations of Mesopotamian, Anatolian, and Iranian Republics instead of centrally controlling Iraqi, Syrian, Turkish, and Iranian regimes. Such a vision change could start with simple steps such as a federative division of Iraq, changing the name of Turkey to Anatolia, and modernising the constitution of Iran so it represent all its nationalities, but no specific religion.
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