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Originally posted by ShadowAngel85
Originally posted by predator0187
Any thoughts?
First time you heard that people get killed in wars? It's really nothing new or groundbreaking. Humans, Animals...they all kill each other, have killed each other for thousands of years and will continue doing so.
It will never change, you can't change the natural way of things, as sad as it is.
Originally posted by neo96
This thread is one of the biggest jokes i have ever read on here cry for Libya?
How many bleeding hearts shed a tear for those who died in the lockerbee bombing come on now where are those tears?
Oh never mind carry on with the Anti American Great satan thread.
When we believe that America and Americans are unique and uniquely good in all of history, we will also believe that there is no problem we cannot overcome. Our political leaders tell us this fable time and again; many Americans are eager to believe it, in the manner of a damaged child who appeals to mysterious powers to vanquish the dangers lurking in the shadows of his room. We witness this mechanism in connection with a wide range of problems, even when those problems reach the catastrophic level. Here is Obama on the continuing catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico:
President Barack Obama struck an optimistic tone over the ongoing oil disaster Monday afternoon, saying that "things are going to return to normal" on the stricken Gulf Coast after much pain and frustration, and that the polluted waters will eventually be in better shape than before the leak began.
These are reassurances offered by parents to children whom they treat as doltish objects fit only to be manipulated. The parent or other authority figure -- here, Obama -- does not expect his words to be credited after a process of independent evaluation. He expects, in fact he demands, that you take his word for it, that you believe him without question or challenge. He demands that you obey. This is the way our political leaders treat their subjects both abroad and at home. (In addition to rejecting this method of forcible "persuasion," I also reject such reassurances for further, more specific and compelling reasons, as do many others. I recognize that we are provided only such information about the Gulf catastrophe as the government and BP, which are one and the same in this context, wish us to have. We have close to no idea what is actually going on, or the damage that has already been inflicted and that may manifest itself in the future. Moreover, I recognize the dangerous folly of entrusting any kind of solution to a crisis of this kind, or to the crisis of climate change however one may conceive it, to an inherently, fatally corrupted corporatist State.)
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The resistance of the ruling class and of most Americans to one aspect of the truth about 9/11 remains astonishing, and it demonstrates how puerile our national conversation is. Of course, the ruling class cannot admit that to state the obvious fact that actions have consequences is not to say that the U.S. "deserved" 9/11 -- for to acknowledge the millions murdered by the U.S. government and our policy of aggressive military intervention across the globe would subject our own actions to the kinds of judgments that only the United States is entitled to make, and only about the actions of others. The United States is uniquely exempt from the standards we apply to everyone else; thus runs the catechism at the church of our inherent national superiority.
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Our national catechism tells us that America is Good -- and that America's murders are Good Murders. You may not say otherwise.
Originally posted by cloaked4u
sadly, but i have to agree. terrible. That is why when we were over there we helped the children most.
Originally posted by cloaked4u
it sickens me that cowards always use people that have nothing to do with anything ,hide behind inocents. SICK. When children are involved, the inocents, i get really mad. I will walk thru hell, to save a child of any color, creed, or religion.
Originally posted by juleol
Originally posted by ShadowAngel85
Originally posted by predator0187
Any thoughts?
First time you heard that people get killed in wars? It's really nothing new or groundbreaking. Humans, Animals...they all kill each other, have killed each other for thousands of years and will continue doing so.
It will never change, you can't change the natural way of things, as sad as it is.
Yeah.. Invading countries for no reason and slaughtering innocent civilians sure is natural indeed...
And this is not even a war according to USA and NATO but a pace keeping mission to help those innocent civilians by slaughtering them.
I am sure you would feel the same if it was your family or friends being slaughtered.....edit on 10-1-2012 by juleol because: (no reason given)