COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN GOVERNMENT SLAVES
US-led war against
ISIS is killing 31 times more civilians than claimed
Well, of course, we could start with the fact that America
is largely responsible for ISIS and all of its horrors in the first place. The
times it has actually fought ISIS involved opportunistic considerations,
embarrassment by bad publicity, or changes along the way in its policy.
But, please, when has the US ever shown any concern for
civilians in all of its ugly colonial wars?
In Vietnam? In Cambodia? In Somalia? In Libya? In Iraq? In
Syria? Or in the genocides in Indonesia and Rwanda?
In North Korea during the early 1950s, American carpet
bombing for three years was claimed by the Pentagon to have exterminated 20% of
the entire population.
In Vietnam, at least 3 million people were killed for
nothing.
America’s record, for those who care to investigate, is
appalling.
Of course, the American corporate press rarely if ever hints
at any of this.
The American government pats itself on the back in every
speech for how good America is, for its values, for its humanity, etc. Every
word of it, complete rubbish.
America, in fact, has killed many millions of people in the
last half century. All of them needlessly.
