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http://themindunleashed.org/2015/11/america-your-solidarity-with-paris-is-embarrassingly-misguided.htmlWithout question, I mourn for Paris recent victims and their families and I would never claim knowledgeable firsthand experience of the same. But I refuse despite my partial French heritage to cloak myself in nationalism of any stripe or star, particularly not now. Because, besides victims in Paris, an incomprehensibly astronomic number of people have been grieving loss of the highest order for some time in places whose names roll off our tongues as if its accepted that violence simply happens there and a majority likely couldnt guess the colors on these victims flags....
I mourn for the millions killed in ongoing and renewed, illegal United States aggression in Iraq and those facing a torturous demise from exposure to depleted uranium employed in violation of international and humanitarian law for reasons far closer to American and corporate hegemony than compassionate principle.
I mourn the untold number killed in the United States insidious and seemingly permanent war in Afghanistan. And the countless children there who know nothing of peace, much less the feeling of safety it brings. And patients and staff recently targeted, bombed, and then shot while fleeing the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz and the irony of that humanitarian organizations French roots.
msongs
(67,411 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)In both the M$M and social media.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)this supercilious, pompous ass from grieving for all of those who are victims of violence? Or only those killed by Americans because we're obviously the worstest of the worst?
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Tsk tsk. Tsk tsk.
katsy
(4,246 posts)Renewed aggression Iraq? The op forgot about the humanitarian evacuations we were called upon to coordinate because daesh was slaughtering innocents. Dubya broke it and we're trying to keep it from total destruction.
We, the US, have a lot to be ashamed of and war kills too many innocents for sure. War is tragedy. But the op forgets daesh's role in this. And the taliban role in killing schoolgirls and murdering their own people. No ones hands are clean.
Stop scolding people with this >mourn for the other dead< shit. There's enough sorrow for a lifetime.
TipTok
(2,474 posts)Seriously though, what a pretentious ass...