Of Mice, Arabs, and the Great Horse Barbara

People were completely shocked. For the end of Barbara was almost a complete tragedy. Barbara was a hero in the full sense of the word. If one only remembers his persistent decisiveness despite pain to play until the end, that is, until victory.
The sad thing is that the doctors have no other choice: Barbara has suffered in a terrible way in the last eight months and twenty four days. The decision was so difficult. But as doctors explained several times on a variety of the American TVs, it was basically because “we love Barbara we are doing this. It is to help this great champion have some peaceful end.” The audience looked in complete agony, and a couple of young beautiful women could not help weeping. “Oh, sweet Barbara, I do not know how life would look like with out him.”
Saddam Hussein, the late dictator –and president- of Iraq, had been hanged during the sad moments of struggling to take a decision about Barbara’s kill for mercy. But the hanging of the Arab dictator went unnoticed. Barbara left no room for Arab dictators and fanatic kids of Gaza. The moment could by no means have any room for minor phenomena. The focus should be exclusively dedicated to Barbara who looked almost another great Heracles’ or Julius Caesar or even a noble Hamlet but with out the flaw of hesitation that distinguished the prince.
When I complained to my fellow students about suffering because of mice in my little apartment, they attracted my attention to the fact that –with much sympathy in their eyes- mice would suffer if I used a glue trap, so I’d better use some less painful traps. I was a little bit confused because it happened that those students were among the pro war people. They told me that they vote republican. So I asked them curiously about the death of hundred of thousands of people by means worse than the glue trap. But it looked as though they could not believe that anybody in the world could be as stupid as I proved to be and said: “But that’s a war. Do you think yourself in a war with mice?” After that, one nice woman started describing a very cute little mouse unleashing little sad sounds when it was suffering the terrible glue. I tried in vain to put the people of Iraq and Gaza on the agenda, but she shrank because those people are responsible for their destiny. “It’s immoral to make an analogy between innocent animals and some fanatic terrorists.”
In the remaining of the time the group were telling “romantic” stories about certain beautiful pets including a family of mice that have names and some history. No body noticed my question when I asked if any of them have ever heard a name of one of the “fanatic terrorist kids of Gaza”, so I just went in shade.
Later I considered that in fact they are right after all. For what makes some one existent in a liberal democracy is her individual identity. Barbara is a great individual and entrepreneur like the great fathers of the nation who killed the “Red Indians” and enslaved Africa. Arabs are mere numbers. They are like Red Indians. They exist only virtually. They barely have some “physical” reality.
Even when an Arab is an individual, s/he is some inferior individual that one does not pay attention to. Saddam was an individual, very individualist indeed, and though he was a terrible man, his life could make a very interesting Hollywood movie. His death in particular was shocking. I personally have found it unbelievable to see that dictator approaching death the way he did. And to be honest, I hated him more than ever because of his extraordinary steadiness when they wrapped the rope round his neck. It was a crazy brave performance that could make him a saint or a legend had the historical context been different. However, the moment was Barbara’s per excellence. And all Arabs –and some others- are to pass unnoticed. They have no right to be individuals because that probably could make killing them more difficult. Actually because they lack real features, one would not be sure that many of them have been killed. A few days ago a lovely young man in response to some of my “fanatic” claims told me that the innocent people who were killed on September 11 are definitely more than the few hundreds of Red Indians who were living in this country. But “even if they were the same in numbers, should we think some accidental death of the Indians is similar in any way to the savage and coward crime perpetrated against the people of New York? Or should we think that the Red Indians had suffered as the New Yorkers did?”

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