Authored by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,
This week, 25 people were slaughtered in yet another mass killing, and half of those deaths were women and children.
But you won’t see these murders broadcast relentlessly on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, nor discussed at length in social media threads. That’s because the U.S. military committed them in their crusade against the Islamic State’s “last enclave on the Euphrates in Syria,” Reuters reported Monday.
It is for this reason that many Americans will dismiss comparisons between this type of mass killing and school shootings and other domestic mass atrocities. Their grossly overfunded (yet somehow financially irresponsible) military is fighting the good fight. If some innocent people have to die in the process Americans can feel safe in their homes and shopping malls, so be it.
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“Collateral damage” is just part of the price the world must pay for the United States to police it and keep it safe, even as the American military has racked up millions of civilian deaths during its reign as the global arbiter of morality and justice.
Though the figures from this week’s deaths in Syria were reported by the Syrian Observatory on Human Rights — which, though cited often by mainstream media has questionable credibility — the evidence of similar killings from other sources is rampant.
Whether bombing hospitals, funerals, schools, or flat out raping and murdering villages filled with civilians, the U.S. military’s brutalization of innocent people is not a rare occurrence.
Aside from the callous apathy many Americans display in their dismissals and rationalizations for the loss of innocent life funded by their tax dollars, the popular notion that the military must murder civilians to win the greater moral battle is faulty, anyway.
The U.S. killed as many as three million civilians in the Korean War to halt communism, yet to this day, North Korea remains oppressed under a dictatorial communist regime (while we’re on the subject, no, the U.S. military was not defending its own troops there; they had already been removed prior to the North’s attack on the South).
In Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, the United States haphazardly killed civilians for years before retreating from the nations in defeat. Despite the thousands of people who died, the U.S. failed to achieve its objectives.
It was not necessary for the British military and its American counterparts. to ravage Dresden, Germany, during World War II, even in its revered crusade against the Nazis. It is widely accepted that this city was not strategically important, but England and U.S. razed it, anyway, killing tens of thousands of civilians.
In the case of the indefinite war on terror, these types of tactics and intervention in general only further create hostility that necessitates further violent meddling. In interviews the Nation conducted with imprisoned ISIS fighters, many knew little of the religious dogma, instead discussing their desperation and anger at the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
“The Americans came,” one said. “They took away Saddam, but they also took away our security. I didn’t like Saddam, we were starving then, but at least we didn’t have war. When you came here, the civil war started.”
When the U.S. disbanded Hussein’s security forces, many ended up top leaders of the Islamic State.
Terror attacks from the caliphate and others are often inspired directly by U.S. wars. While the perpetrators who kill innocents are obviously deranged, attackers from Omar Mateen to the Boston Bombers to the Charlie Hebdo killers cited opposition to U.S. intervention as motivation for their murders.
This long history of intervention not only helped spawn ISIS but also al-Qaeda following the CIA’s efforts to empower the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the U.S.’ geopolitical battle against the Soviet Union. Al-Qaeda grew out of the mujahideen and then went on to attack the United States. Findings from the University of Chicago’s Project on Security and Terrorism suggest suicide attacks are a direct result of foreign military occupations. As researcher Robert A. Pape explained in Foreign Policy in 2010:
“As the United States has occupied Afghanistan and Iraq, which have a combined population of about 60 million, total suicide attacks worldwide have risen dramatically — from about 300 from 1980 to 2003, to 1,800 from 2004 to 2009. Further, over 90 percent of suicide attacks worldwide are now anti-American”
Despite this cycle of perpetual violence, Americans still can’t be bothered to care. They will offer thoughts and prayers over mass shootings – many committed by crazed ex-soldiers and aspiring troops in an apparent show of the ramifications of blind militarism — but these same Americans will reject compassion for those condone violence if not outright glorify it.
And as long as they do, innocent people will continue to die both at home and abroad.
George Washington advocated a policy of good faith and justice towards all nations, again making reference to proper behavior based upon religious doctrine and morality. He urges the American people to avoid long-term friendly relations or rivalries with any nation, arguing that attachments with or animosity toward other nations will only cloud the government’s judgment in its foreign policy. He argues that longstanding poor relations will only lead to unnecessary wars due to a tendency to blow minor offenses out of proportion when committed by nations viewed as enemies of the United States. He continues this argument by claiming that alliances are likely to draw the United States into wars which have no justification and no benefit to the country beyond simply defending the favored nation. Alliances, he warns, often lead to poor relations with nations who feel that they are not being treated as well as America’s allies, and threaten to influence the American government into making decisions based upon the will of their allies instead of the will of the American people…….but what did he know?
But muh Stars-n-Stripes!
If only there were stricter laws and a smaller, more homogeneous population spread out, like in Canada, these school shootings would never happe…. wait, what?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/deadly-shootings-schools-canada-1.3416685
This is the biggest reason you do not want 1 super power.
Shit these leftist Progressives love guns in the hands of police or army personal who will be more than willing to MURDER civilianls.They also want their body guards to have ever kind of gun imaginable .They just don’t want men like me or other NRA members to have them.
Don’t care about what happens over there. The sooner that the Followers of “The Prophet” of “The Religion Of Peace” are relegated to the Dustbin of History, the better for the rest of the planet.
I think we should actively encourage them to kill each other, thereby leaving us with fewer that we’ll have to deal with in the end….
“Don’t care about what happens over there.”
I am no fan of Islam. No, not at all.
But, we’re talking about the killing (murder, actually) of non-combatants. Fathers and mother’s who have just had their children blown apart, or children who are now orphans … but, at least their dead, as I pity as much, if not more, those who must live out their lives maimed.
I don’t have to like Islam even one tiny bit to have empathy for the innocent …. especially those living in a war-torn country (are there even any buildings left standing in Syria outside of Damascus?) … who barely have the necessary basics of life. Do they deserve death … just because they happen to be Muslim??
God forbid if I ever lose empathy. There is a word for such people; psychopaths.
Ok, so you don’t care. Is the author of this article describing you when he writes —– “If some innocent people have to die in the process Americans can feel safe in their homes and shopping malls, so be it.”?
You make some good points, Stucky. I’ve read and reread this article, and wanted to refute it in some minor ways, historically it’s a mess. And I decided not to. The chick makes some great points, she’s just lazy in her facts. You did a better job than I could have
Well said, Stucky.
I would press each of us to take it one step further and ask: “How could bombing the shit out of people half way around the world possibly make us safer in our homes and shopping malls?”
By killing bombers of those malls before they can actually bomb them. That is what we’re supposed to believe. Is there the slightest shred of evidence that this have EVER happened or is far more likely that bombing the shit out of a man’s family might just drive him toward violence.
It’s funny, I have some liberal friends (and family) that are very, very difficult to even attempt to red-pill. But some conservative friends are even harder to convince that we don’t need the ridiculous military we have and we certainly don’t need to “police (read: bomb the shit out of) the world.” I swear I meet more resistance there than I do when tell liberals that guns protect citizens from their own governments.
The only thing wrong with killing heathen mohammedans in this situation is our commitment to half measures. Regardless of how it happens , dead mohammedans is a good thing. The more the better. Western civilization is in a “total war” with the mohammedans. The only thing worse than war is losing it.
There is no such thing as an innocent mohammedan.
“There is no such thing as an innocent mohammedan.”
There are over a Billion of them.
You’ve spoken to them all?
NAXALT strawman argument.
It’s gonna be a tribal war whether you like it or not.
It just so happens whites are the all-time champs at fucking everybody else up, which is why die Jüden so like to pit us in brother-wars.
Yes…dehumanizing people based on the accidental circumstances of their birth. Where could you possibly go wrong?
Fuck, people who read this blog aren’t supposed to be this fucking stupid.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/1/31/galant-welcoming-war-crimes/
“I admire Kissinger’s intellect” – Llpoh
Change your moniker to “overthetop”. How would you like it if someone was flying drones in our country and killing those they considered terrorists and killing INNOCENT woman and children as collateral damage. I think Amerikans would be pretty pissed off.
The war on Terror. Just that alone should get any thinking person to wonder. How do you fight a word? Where is this word and what country does it represent? No where and everywhere is the answer,and it will last as long as the word is relevant. It will feed the Military Industrial Complex for a very long time. Does one think it will cause any blow back from the countries who have been tagged in the war on terror? Only us here,and anyone else who dares to think for themselves. About 2% of the population actually serve in their wars. The rest……While most quietly go about their business only occasionally stating their disgust with it. Others are seen at sporting events with their signs and shouts of USA USA. Most of these obese low IQ morons could not make it to the other side of the road without the aid of a gas station. Let alone have the physical and mental ability to live in the field. However they are masters of Call of Duty. O’k let the attacks begin !!!!!