While I recognize that there are a small minority of individuals in the US, as well as US nationals outside of it, who are sincerely in favor of reform, of modernization and advancement, the fact is that these individuals are not only too few to mount any significant reform movement, they are in just as much danger of being kidnapped or exterminated by US "operatives" as any soul whose native land contains a large quantity of Muslims and sand.

and here,

And what can we consider the Americans, with the notable exception of those endangered terrorists previously mentioned

and here,

It matters not how deeply ingrained such a notion may be in the hearts of the American corporation devotees, it matters not that to most Americans, any other view is not only impossible, but literally inconceivable.

and here I think he is saying that even those of us who object are still paying for the massacre with our taxes that buy the bombs, and by paying for our corporate cable tv defense industry propaganda

Though some do object to titling massacres with names like "Iron Fist," one cannot avoid the drawing room elephant that they do not object, or at least not enough to stop the practice, to paying for the massacre.

I noted in my first comment that he pissed me off too Tracy. Because what he says challenges those vestiges of American exceptionalism that are still so deeply ingrained in me. It pisses me off, and I don't even have a loved one who's life is being put in danger like you do. So forgive me my presumption that it would piss you off more. Or piss off SallyCat because she is a Veteran. I understand it from both perspectives. And he still pisses me off because I don't see all military personell as war criminals. But in the strictest sense, if the invasion is illegal, then every soldier is there illegally, whether they want to be or not. And therefore every soldier is part of a criminal invasion of a sovereign nation. And I am paying them. I am buying the equiptment that is doing the killing. And so are you. So are all of us.

 

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