We believe that targeting innocent lives to achieve political objectives is always and everywhere wrong. So we stand together against terror and extremism, and we will never let down our guard or lose our resolve.
Does anyone else notice that whenever they talk about innocent lives and terror and extremism, they are always talking about them? But when you count the bodies, it’s like a mountain on one side, and a small mound on the other, and it is always innocents, and the mountains of bodies are always people killed by us. Israel dispatches innocent civilians with abandon while labeling its enemies terrorists, disappearing them and putting them in secret prisons and confining them to ghastly compounds like Gaza; building walls through their territory and stealing their land. Yet it’s always them. They are the bad guys, while we are somehow accomplishing good with all of the oppression and violence we can muster, including torture.
It’s nonsense. I mean this in utter seriousness, I am not merely calling names: George W. Bush is a violent extremist; he should have been impeached, and the world will be safer when he leaves office. Just sayin’.
As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: “Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.” We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.
These days, when the tanks roll across borders in illegal invasions, it is American kids doing the driving. Bush might have the right historical analogy. He just has it backwards.
Enough. There are times when I can hardly stand to hear that voice and the constant stream of lies.
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