@JTT,
JTT wrote:
Quote:It is possible that we are responsible for farm more Iraqi deaths than Saddam H. was; but since our purpose was better, we can expect a pass...
You don't get a pass, you get off simply because you are the toughest gangster on the block. Your purpose was worse, much worse. You effectively destroyed a country that was doing well, you killed half a million kids with your illegal and immoral embargo.
Would it be fair for the same to happen to the US, a couple of million kids killed for lack of things essential to life? There's almost certainly no country on the planet with as many chemical/biological/evil weaponry as the US.
Why not have your economy destroyed, people die from lack of essentials, countries invade and destroy your homes and infrastructure?
Well; the american people will eat **** if you put enough patriotic sugar on it... The fact is, that we know, but we want to believe, and that is enough.... I went to church after 911 like a lot of folks, and the priest pointed out that we are responsible for a lot of death in this world, that war and the machines of death make up a lot of our exports, and that we refuse to sign onto the chemical weapons ban... Some one dropped a dime on him with the Bishop, and next week he said his Mea Culpa's... He did not wish to make it seem like we had some how deserved the attack, but most of us knew that one of our pigeons ahd come home to roost...
Wouldn't we **** if all we have given the world were returned to us in kind??? Trust me on this... We once saw some benefit to the death we dealt to the world... We kept them in bondage so we could call ourselves free... What we really bought with our actions was a world we cannot venture into without an army, and a military we cannot afford to support, and slavery for ourselves to pay for products we could make but have shipped the production away, to other shores... We could not export capitalism without exporting capital, and in doing so we have to be consumers without resources or production... We are slaves, so instead of freeing the world we have cast a net of slavery from which we could not escape...