[Vision2020] [Spam 5.31] Re: "No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child"

[Chuck Kovis]

Damn, I forgot, Donovan.  He did everything in his power as the Jr. 
Senator from Illinois and as the President of the United States to stop 
this crap.   As Ross Caputi stated in the Guardian in March of this year:

"The consequentialist will argue that the good results outweigh the bad, 
that democracy, freedom and the liberation of Afghan women will improve 
the lives of Afghans so much that the deaths of a few are justified. 
This is an easy judgment for westerners to make from the comforts of 
their own homes; but it stinks of the same patriarchy and arrogance of 
the white man's burden that justified colonialism for so many years. Has 
anyone consulted Afghans and asked them if they think the good that the 
west has promised will come of this occupation is worth the lives of 
their family members?"

And, to you Tom, more Caputi:

"Yet, western audiences feel reassured knowing that most of the civilian 
deaths in Afghanistan were not intended; and they only become outraged 
when marines and soldiers clearly target civilians and kill women and 
children 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/13/bush-my-lai-haditha-massacre-fund?INTCMP=SRCH>, 
urinate on their bodies <http://livepage.apple.com/>, and plunder their 
body parts as trophies 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/30/kill-team-photos-afghanistan-us>. 
 From Abu Ghraib, to Fallujah, to Haditha, and now to Panjwai, US forces 
have committed massacres against civilians. These incidents stand out in 
the western mind, but to Afghans and Iraqis, they are no different from 
the daily slaughter of civilians by drones, air strikes, depleted 
uranium and stray bullets."

When Caputi gets to write a column in one of the military "Times" I may 
go back to reading them again.  In the meantime I'm not going to hold my 
breath as long as Obama, Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Nixon, Johnson, Romney, 
Kissinger etc., etc., hold power and rational thinking people swallow 
the "security" crap hook, line and sinker.

  Chuck Kovis

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