Re: 13 VS. 2,000,000
mose
ALL UNDER CONTROL IN THE USA?
McCain and Lieberman in Israel - In addition, Senator Joe
> Lieberman has announced that his Homeland Security and Governmental
> Affairs
> Committee will launch a full investigation into "every angle"
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"Zora Starr" <zoroastrians.c...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 13 VS. 2,000,000
>
> Fort Hood Shootings a Shocker...Why Not U.S. War Crimes?
>
> By Ted Rall
>
> November 19, 2009 -- NEW YORK--American lives are worth a lot. So when
> Americans get killed, it's a big story. There are lots of editorials.
> Congressmen call for investigations. We want to find out what happened,
> why
> it happened, and how to make sure it never happens again.
>
> The lives of foreigners, on the other hand, are pretty much worthless.
> Even
> when they die because Americans killed them, news accounts marking their
> deaths are short, sweet, and short-lived. Congressional investigations? No
> way. To the contrary! If anyone is inconsiderate enough to mention the
> killings of people overseas in a public forum, they get shouted down or
> simply ignored.
>
> The massacre of 13 soldiers at an Army post in Texas earlier this week
> places this dichotomy in sharp relief.
>
> The FBI is already helping Army investigators. In addition, Senator Joe
> Lieberman has announced that his Homeland Security and Governmental
> Affairs
> Committee will launch a full investigation into "every angle" of the
> shooting, including the motives of the suspect and whether or not
> government
> eavesdroppers could have prevented it by notifying Army officials of his
> contacts with a radical Muslim cleric. Over in the House, Representative
> Silvestre Reyes, a Texas Democrat, has summoned national intelligence
> director Dennis Blair to answer questions about Fort Hood before the
> Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
>
> But wait--there's more. "Other committees may also launch investigations
> into how the Army missed warning signs about the accused," reports The
> Politico.
>
> All sorts of hands are being wrung.
>
> Major Hasan, an army psychiatrist, ministered to victims of post-traumatic
> stress syndrome who told him terrible stories about combat in Afghanistan
> and Iraq. Should someone have helped him cope too?
>
> Ordered to deploy to the war zone, he asked not to go--and was refused.
> Should the Army be more flexible?
>
> Is it reasonable to ask a religious Muslim to deploy to Afghanistan or
> Iraq,
> wars where he would be asked to kill his coreligionists?
>
> Then there are the phone taps. "U.S. military officials said intelligence
> agencies intercepted communications between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, a
> former imam at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia,
> a
> Washington suburb," reported CNN. "Al-Awlaki, who left the United States
> in
> 2002 and is believed to be living in Yemen, was the subject of several
> federal investigations dating back to the late 1990s, but was never
> charged.
> " As jihadis do at the start of an attack, Hasan reportedly cried "Allahu
> Akbar" before opening fire. Shouldn't someone have noticed that the nice
> shrink with the dopey smile had become a radical Islamist?
>
> The shock, grief and soul-searching are all reasonable reactions to a
> brutal
> and tragic event. But it's not hard to imagine how it looks to the outside
> world. While the media and public obsess over the deaths of 13 fellow
> Americans, they ignore the deaths of hundreds of thousands of foreigners.
>
> The American military has killed roughly two million people in Afghanistan
> and Iraq since 2001. Those attacks were illegal--no declaration of war, no
> UN mandate--and are largely recognized as such by the American public.
> Many
> of the victims were killed with chemical and radioactive weapons, and some
> while under torture. In other words, these are crimes--some of the biggest
> mass murders in human history.
>
> There are no angry editorials. The illegal wars, instead of being brought
> to
> an end, are being ramped up. The crimes--yes, including the
> torture--continues. But it's OK--as long as it doesn't happen here in the
> United States. It's OK to rain death on Pakistanis using drone planes...
> gotta spare those precious American lives!
>
> Mass murder is shocking when the victims are Americans; it's doubly
> shocking
> when it happens in America.
>
> Thirteen soldiers die in Texas and it's all we talk about. Two million die
> in Afghanistan and Iraq and we don't notice and we don't even want to hear
> about it. Only 12 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 can find Afghanistan
> on
> a map.
>
> The punk band T.S.O.L. wrote the soundtrack to this attitude a
> quarter-century ago: "We live in the American zone/Free of fear in our
> American home/Swimming pool and digital phone."
>
> Still wondering why they hate us?
>
> Ted Rall is the author, with Pablo G. Callejo, of the new graphic memoir
> "The Year of Loving Dangerously." He is also the author of the 2002
> graphic
> travelogue "To Afghanistan and Back." Visit his website
> http://www.rall.com/
>
>
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>
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