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If you are an empire, the whole world is your animal shelter
You get to decide which beings are cute enough to be saved, and which are disposable human garbage.
Syrian rebels--cute. Bahrain demonstrators--not so cute
Arab Libyans--cute. Black African Libyans--not so cute (have already been mostly ethnically cleansed)
Albanians in Kosovo--cute. Serbs in the Krajina--not so cute (The US actually helped implement the same policy there that Serbs tried to implement on Kosovo.
Wahabis in Saudi Arabia--cute. Wahabis in Pakistan and Afghanistan--not so cute.
Or maybe cute doesn't matter as much as what the 1% want. Otherwise defined as "our" strategic interests. Whatchu mean "we." Kemosabe? Our unelected rulers with no national loyalty whatsoever, or the rest of us poor saps who just live here?
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