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In reply to the discussion: I'm tired of bloodthirsty people. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)citizens, tortures and maims untold numbers of others, rapes its women, sodomizes its children, hell, rapes its teenage girls.
Are you aware of the atrocities committed by the 'Allied Forces' against the innocent people of Iraq and Afghanistan?
I can provide you examples, but it would take weeks to document all the atrocities, and that's just what we KNOW. Is it better to torture to death untold numbers of people or to behead innocent people?
Are we REALLY in a position to be so outraged over any atrocity at this point? And how about our allies? Bahrain? Know anything about that dictatorship and its years long abuse and brutality towards its own people? How about the Saudis? Know how they put people to death over there, for stealing eg, or how they treat GAYS and women? How about Qatar? Read much about THAT dictatorship?
The hypocrisy is simply stunning. Maybe IF we had prosecuted our War Criminals, or cut ties with the dictatorships we call 'allies', we could claim the moral high ground. But we didn't, did we?
Know anything about another of our allies to whom OUR TAX DOLLARS GO to help keep him in power, Karamov of Uzbekistan?? Boiling people in oil and dropping their bodies off at the homes of their families?? How do you feel about THAT? Your taxes keep him in luxury. Have you ever expressed OUTRAGE over THOSE VICTIMS?? Genocide, remember that?
Please, maybe fifteen years ago before our OWN brutal war crimes were public knowledge, at least some of them, we could be outraged over barbarism. But we are used to it now, aren't we, used to looking at the photos of the bodies of babies in Fallujah, eg, with their skin burned off by White Phospherous?
That's the problem when you drag a once compassionate people into a brutal, vicious war and make excuses for the torture of human beings. It's getting harder to SHOCK us.