Hyperreality , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

What a load of revisionist crap.

America has (often deliberately) bombed hospitals. Remember Chelsea Manning? She was arrested at least in part because she leaked footage of American soldiers laughing after they'd killed journalists. They bombed Al Jazeera's offices in Afghanistan too. They bombed the red-cross twice in Kabul, the second time after they'd been notified of red cross locations, but bombed them anyway.

It's not even a secret. They've admitted they did it deliberately in at least one instance:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/09/us-military-admits-we-deliberately-bombed-hospital-iraq

Last time I checked, roughly 50,000 people have died in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1948. The War on Terror has likely killed at least a million innocent civilians.

The last time someone suggested putting American soldiers on trial for war crimes in the Hague, the US signed the 'Hague Invasion Act' into law, effectively allowing the US to invade the Netherlands rather than have an American GI go on trial for even the most heinous crimes.

I mean, remember Colin Powell? He first rose to prominence white washing the My Lai massacre. They raped, mutilated and murdered children. Only one person was convicted, and ultimately only a few years of house arrest before the president commuted his sentence. Those who initially tried to prevent or hinder the massacre, were initially denounced as traitors. The guy who whitewashed the whole thing, became one of the most senior members of the US military.

If Israel acted like the US military, they would have carpet bombed the whole gaza strip by now. CNN would have been gushing about how brilliant it all was. Shock and Awe! Mass precision bombing. Surgical strikes. No mention of the thousands who died, just like happened during the initial invasion of Iraq, where up to 10,000 innocent civilians died, commemorated by a throw-away line about how advanced the US military is and how they managed to keep 'collateral damage' to an absolute minimum.