Humint Events Online: Where Is the Outrage??? (part XXIII)

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Where Is the Outrage??? (part XXIII)

The US has unleashed bloodshed in Iraq that is rarely known even in countries we think of as violent and torn by civil strife. It is amazing to think that this has occurred in what was only recently a liberal and civilized country by the region’s standards. This was a country that had a problem with immigration, particularly among the well-educated and talented classes. They went to Iraq because it was the closest Arab proxy to Western-style society that one could find in the area.

It was the US that turned this country into a killing field. Why won’t we face this? Why won't we take responsibility? The reason has to do with this mysterious thing called nationalism, which makes an ideological religion of the nation's wars. We are god-like liberators. They are devil-like terrorists. No amount of data or contrary information seems to make a dent in this irreligious faith. So it is in every country and in all times. Here is the intellectual blindness that war generates.

Such blindness is always inexcusable, but perhaps more understandable in a time when information was severely restricted, when technological limits actually prohibited us from knowing the whole truth at the time. What excuse do we have today? Our blindness is not technological but ideological. We are the good guys, right? Every nation believes that about itself, but freedom is well served by the few who dare to think critically.

An essential postulate of the Western idea, or so we tell ourselves, is the universal and ultimate value of human life. And indeed it is true. No person or group of people is without value – not even those whom our own government chooses to label the enemy.


8 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

""We are the good guys, right?""

right!
we are passing out flowers over there!

1:00 PM  
Blogger spooked said...

Also, where is the REMORSE from any US leader for all the death we've caused in an unprovoked war?

9:51 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

there will be no remorse.
it is too easy for US leaders to fool themselves into believing that the iraqis are destroying themselves and that US military force there is a stabilizing presence.

12:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Remorse? I have remorse that this damn blog is still around after all the money and time and effort we put into shutting you off, Spooky.

THAT'S remorse!

3:21 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

When enough people of goodwill finally start supporting candidates like Kucinich with their money and not just their mouths, then more candidates of goodwill will win elections to positions of real influence in the body politic.

That's the fastest way to bring about a decent U.S. Government that we can all be proud of.

9:39 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kucinich? A government we can be "proud" of?

Man, what are YOU smokin'! I want some of that cause there aint NUTHIN that makes reality go away than what you have in your pipe!

Kucinich is a lunatic and a moron - but I repeat myself. He just proved it again when he went to Syria and talked to enemy-of-the-US Assad and trashed the US yet once again, something he enjoys doing.

I guess I'm not surprised that Kucin-bitch is worshiped here, but the reality is you flaming man-boy lovers *really* want to bang his wife (when you aren't laying some pipe on each other, that is).

10:13 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Attn: 10:13 AIPAC Shill

The Lobby meeting is about to start.
Don't be late.

Early Wynn

8:20 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Seven CIA veterans have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and have called for a new investigation.
""I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke,"" said Raymond McGovern, 27-year veteran of the CIA

2:17 AM  

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