The overwhelming historical evidence is that military action against sovereign nations, occuption by lethal force, and a system to crush any opposing philosophy, are the things which create terrorism.
I don’t know what’s more sad, people who blindly believe in a government that kills to impose it’s doctrine on other nations, or people who believe that they have “allies” even as a huge preponderance of evidence proves otherwise. Perhaps the most sad is the self-important way we view human life as ong as it’s outside our “gated community”.
How would you feel if I were to refer to the victims of 9/11 as “collateral damage from a surgical strike?” I mean, after all, only two devices were used, they achieved their objective, and less people died on that day than during the Iraq invasion. Much less unintended damage occurred, and the consequences were staggering. In the context of a war against corruption, as is the stated ideology behind the Islam extremist movement, what is 3,000 lives compared to countless tens of thousands ruined or ended by centuries of military domination? It’s “collateral damage” by definition, only we tend to resent that particular phrase when the “collateral” is our families instead of some “would-be terrorist”. Any justification that we can use to strike pre-emptively against another nation, based on our indoctrinated belief that they pose a danger to us, can surely be used by our “enemy” in the same context. In a sense, our pre-emption is all the proof they need.
Throughout the last few decades, it has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that various American (yes, and MANY other)administrations have overtly and covertly supported criminal and terrorist activity resulting in thousands of innocent lives being lost. This isn’t in question, but the “justifications” for it always are.
America is becoming the most feared nation on the planet…not the most respected. If you can’t see the signifigance of that detail then perhaps it is time for this particular empire to go the way of the dodo. Don’t worry, the collapse always comes from within… America’s end won’t be military, it’ll just litigate itself out of existence.
I’m way more terrified of the recent revelation of an underlying elitist and fascist mentality in the US than I am of any other singular ideological trait. Last night on an informal American BBS I first hear the word “extermination” applied as a possible solution to anti-Americanism. Now what final solution does that remind you of and how does this philosophy differ from Germany in the late 30’s? The disturbing part was that the notion of final solution wasn’t expunged from the debate. It was considered as being as valid as any of the other viewpoints.
Does the fact that any of us have expensive weaponry to use in conquest, or the fact that we are seemingly blinded by a slobbering sycophantic media complex somehow immunize us against the reality of uncountable innocent deaths at ANY of our nations’ hands? Nope.
Blood stains American hands just as it does any other militaristic empire’s hands. It would appear that there is a surplus of affordable rose-colored glasses available, however, in the USA, so perhaps the blood isn’t as visible. Why don’t you stamp out the vermin in your midst before crying foul at other nations?
You beat an innocent nation near to death, poisoned it, and now you’re raping what’s left of the corpse. If there are any people in that nation or from that nation capable of striking back at innocent American lives, I can honestly say I wouldn’t blame them.
They would only be repaying in kind. America started this one by using 9/11 as an excuse, don’t forget that. You could have gone after the perps, but instead you went after fresh meat for Exxon. No rhetoric will change that, and not even the mighty American media can erase it.
