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I Thought I Saw A Terrorist
The Israeli military's "deeply" sorry for killing seven food volunteers in Gaza earlier this week. It was a case of mistaken identity.
That's according to the results of an investigation conducted by... well, conducted by the Israeli military. They investigated themselves. What can you do? Laugh, I suppose. Despairingly. The World Central Kitchen incident's a lot of things, but funny isn't one of them.
The IDF's account of the mistakes made in the final minutes of the volunteers' lives was abo
I’m not sure how “demanding a cease fire” has more power than providing $14B in military aid does. Sure sure, we’ll get right on not using the weapons you just sent us! The juxtaposition of continuing to send military aid while telling that leader not to use it to commit genocide against not sending aid to a leader who’s people are victims of continuous violence is beyond farcical. Look, clearly in the post truth world facts don’t matter and propaganda is king but I have no idea what is going on in Biden’s head that he thinks his words will somehow be more powerful than the action of sending military aid. He’s either naive or just trying to appease dissent with his hollow words. Either way, this kind of crap makes it difficult to be proud of the world dominating power we possess because we keep using it for the wrong damn reasons. We can be just as supportive of Netanyahu without sending billions in military aid as we are of Zelenskyy who is getting practically none. The distinction being there is no active military threat against Israel in Gaza right now.
I was of draft age right in the middle of the Vietnam war. I can still remember us apologizing repeatedly every time we were responsible for wiping out a village of women and children we though might be hiding Cong killers …. blah, blah, blah. The tell was when we included those unlucky kills in the daily “body count” that showed up nightly on the news so Westmoreland could keep pressing his case for more money and more troops. Today, we’ve got a new approach, yes we. We identify a bunch of supposed terrorist higher-ups is a country with whom we are not at war, and we just openly kill these people unapologetically, in the sovereign territory of someone else, and hang their virtual heads on our wall. That’s not war, that’s simple assignation.