Saturday, April 07, 2018

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: TRUMP'S SICK WORDS ABOUT A DRONE STRIKE - BUT THEY REALLY ARE NO SICKER THAN THE ENTIRE MURDER PROGRAM BY A COUNTRY ALWAYS PRETENDING TO RIGHTS AND RULE OF LAW




COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT


“Donald Trump asks ‘why did you wait?’ after CIA delayed drone strike to prevent civilian deaths”

Just sick words.

Almost up there with Madeleine Albright's response years ago to a reporter’s question about all the Iraqi children dying under American sanctions.

But, truly, Trump’s words are no sicker than the entire program to which he refers.

Imagine, a country with all of America's endless advertising-for-itself speeches about human rights, democracy, and rule of law running an industrial-scale extralegal killing program?

And, remember, that program was started under Obama and under intense lobbying for it by Joe Biden.

America has become just a hopelessly brutal society.

Trump is awful, but no more so than all the others running Washington and making such barbaric practices possible.