Analysis Of Churchill's Essay Some People Push Back

Humans are intriguing. In the wake of the most horrific mass murder and largest terrorist attack to ever find its way to a country’s shores a person will do almost anything to help those suffering; millions offered their money, time, and in some cases even their lives to save the victims of the attacks. Otherwise a group of people can unify under a common flag to provide aid to the afflicted; thousands of individuals donated an unprecedented amount of blood after the 9/11 attacks; however the flag in this case was not American, nor was it peaceful or even remotely helpful, this flag was Iraqi. In his essay “Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens” Ward Churchill claims that it is a natural; and in this case restrained; occurrence …show more content…
Maybe if the terrorists had done a bit of historical research they would have noticed the last people who did this ended up getting nuked, twice. If you look closer however you start to question whether this did take courage and the answer most people get to is, “No, it was actually quite cowardly.” To carry out an unprovoked aerial attack against citizens of a peaceful country with no danger to significant amounts of the aggressor’s troops is almost a definition of “cowardly.” But then it dawns upon the reader that this is no different to what America is doing the only difference being America doesn’t have to commandeer planes to kill thousands of innocents. To solve this moral dilemma one must look bad to who is really the evil warmongering nation in this situation. The answer is Iraq; one should also note that the terrorists were actually from Saudi Arabia; and America was just there to provide assistance to an oppressed nation. As it turns out after all of these epiphanies the reader’s mind is