firestar464 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 12:35 am
Gosh how dafuq did I forget that "dropping bombs on foreign countries is wrong." This has to be one of my biggest fails of all time.
I presume that you are being sarcastic here. I note that in this way you evaded my question. That question being: "If a foreign country were to do that to the United States, even to attack terrorists, would we be as supportive?"
Mind you, I myself have not concluded that dropping bombs on a foreign country is always indefensible. My point was the undesirability of the lack of debate in the lame stream media about this bombing policy as now being applied in Syria.
The citation of Code Pink by
Common Dreams was as follows:
We condemn the U.S. airstrikes in Syria. The U.S. has sowed chaos in Syria and the entire region for years and the Biden administration ordering ongoing airstrikes is a disappointing sign that they have no intent on reversing their deadly policy of interventionism.
I suppose you also think that Peace History is also some kind of Communist front organization:
In both wars (the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq), the U.S. employed heavy-handed “pacification” tactics, ignoring lessons of the Vietnam War. These tactics included bombing, drone strikes, night raids, and arbitrary imprisonment, all of which assured a never-ending supply of vengeful insurgents. The costs were considerable: more than 500,000 war-related deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, and over 7,000 U.S. fatalities between 2001 and 2021, according to the Costs of War Project. The U.S. spent roughly $3 trillion on its overseas operations and bases during these two decades, money that could have been spent on programs addressing human needs and environmental sustainability.
In the wider “war on terror,” the U.S. employed brutish and illegal methods to capture or kill suspected terrorists, including extrajudicial rendition, indefinite detention, torture, and assassination. Such methods violated international humanitarian laws, defied human rights principles, undermined international cooperation in counterterrorism operations, and sullied America’s reputation. Rather than uphold the “rules-based international order,” the U.S. acted as a rogue nation, a law unto itself, setting a dangerous precedent for other powerful nations.
At home, the Bush administration orchestrated a major propaganda campaign to convince the American people that its policies were appropriate responses to credible threats. If there is a lesson for the public, it is to be skeptical, ask questions, and learn about U.S. foreign policies, especially when issues of war are involved. Credit should be given to those who pursued truth: to correspondents, photojournalists, and human rights workers who witnessed first-hand the debilitating effects of U.S. policies and shared their stories with the public; to media outlets and Congressional panels that pressed the government for truthful information and called out lies and abuses; to writers, scholars, and public intellectuals who pierced through official propaganda and ideological frames; to peace advocates and citizens who demonstrated their opposition to war and urged political leaders to pursue diplomacy.
https://peacehistory-usfp.org/wot/ Don't mourn, organize.
-Joe Hill
