Really, How Trump Should Have Responded to the Khans’ Words?

Really, How Trump Should Have Responded to the Khans’ Words?

By Limin Wang

Aug 3, 2016

 

On July 28, Khizr Khan gave an emotional speech to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.  His son, Humayun Khan, a US Army Captain, was killed by a suicide car bomb in Iraq in 2004.  The following section is the part where Khan started to sharply attack the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump:

 

 

“Hillary Clinton was right when she called my son "the best of America." If it was up to Donald Trump, he never would have been in America. Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims. He disrespects other minorities -- women, judges, even his own party leadership. He vows to build walls and ban us from this country.

Donald Trump, you are asking Americans to trust you with our future. Let me ask you: Have you even read the U.S. Constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy. In this document, look for the words "liberty" and "equal protection of law."

Have you ever been to Arlington Cemetery? Go look at the graves of the brave patriots who died defending America -- you will see all faiths, genders, and ethnicities.

You have sacrificed nothing, and no one.

We can't solve our problems by building walls and sowing division. We are stronger together. And we will keep getting stronger when Hillary Clinton becomes our next president.”

 

 

Think about the speech’s words, and its real meaning. Is it just an emotional speech? Or is it an informational speech telling you undeniable facts? Parents love their own children, OK. When a politician called your son “the best of America”, would all listeners take this as truth? If the Khan family were coming into the USA at the 2000s, and Trump were U.S. president at that time, the invasion into Iraq based on a dumpster of lies from a bunch of Muslim exiles and American high-ranks might have never happened, and the September 11^th terrorist attack might have never happened, and the high walls around the so-called Green Zone in Iraqis territory might have never happened, and the barbed fence in Guantanamo Bay lawless prison might have never happened, and the flood of refugees might have never happened, and the slaughter of so many people for so many “reasons” might have never happened. Back into reality, was Donald Trump the one pushing for an invasion into Iraq? Was Donald Trump the one exciting your son for the war in Iraq? Was Donald Trump the one making tons of private money after the invasion? Was Donald Trump the one looting the ancient civilization?  Was Donald Trump the one having built the existent walls along the US-Mexico border or on the Gaza Strip? If the Wikipedia story holds true, WHY would the two Iraqi Muslims hate an American Army Captain Muslim so much and want to just kill him by a SUICIDE car bomb at a casualty ratio of 2 to 1?

Donald Trump responded to some women, some judges, and some leaders, in the political campaign way, symmetrically or non-symmetrically. What those people really represent? Minority? Those people all have more power than a commoner has. Counterattacking is a disrespect? Stretched from a disrespect to some to as a “black soul” to all?

The US Constitution does not provide liberty or equality. It is basically a document about power sharing within the power system. Outsiders have something called Amendments. Does the US Constitution provide your land? Any rights to any natural resources? Any tangible materials and methods for you to survive and thrive? The Amendments is a record of American history itself. Do you have the rights to drink tonight? Do you need the US Constitution to allow you to drink?  My words may sound so scathing, but do these words tell you the beautiful lies? You prefer beautiful lies to cruel facts?

The Arlington National Cemetery started during the American Civil War. Was Robert Lincoln, the oldest son of President Lincoln, studying in Harvard, or serving in the military, during the Civil War? Dare Mr. Khan to say anything similar to President Lincoln? What Mary Todd Lincoln would sacrifice? By shopping more luxuries during the war time? Many USA soldiers died in oversea wars, for example, the Korean War, the Vietnam War. Was Korea invading the USA? Was Vietnam invading the USA? It’s only because the USA government system always takes the communism as its nightmare. The Americans killed the Iraqi female scientist Chemical Ali. Are there many female Chemical Ali’s in Saudi Arabia, a USA ally in the Middle East? The Saudi women can behavior as French women now? Did Donald Trump actually say anything bad about the mother Khan? So, has the USA government ever taken all faiths, genders, and ethnicities equal?

Stronger, together. It sounds great. Why Hillary wouldn’t pick Bernie Sanders as her running-mate? Why Muslims wouldn’t stay together to be stronger? Why humans wouldn’t stay together to be stronger? You tell me. But let me say first, human history is a history of struggle, and struggling within humans is part of the eternal struggle.