1. 11 February 2005

    1427 days ago

    jeblog » Ward Churchill’s Essay

    A powerful (if at all actual) tirade against the American policies and military strategy of late, written by a professor at Colorado University (University of Colorado?).

    As things stand, including the 1993 detonation at the WTC, “Arab terrorists” have responded to the massive and sustained American terror bombing of Iraq with a total of four assaults by explosives inside the US. That’s about 1% of the 50,000 bombs the Pentagon announced were rained on Baghdad alone during the Gulf War (add in Oklahoma City and you’ll get something nearer an actual 1%). They’ve managed in the process to kill about 5,000 Americans, or roughly 1% of the dead Iraqi children (the percentage is far smaller if you factor in the killing of adult Iraqi civilians, not to mention troops butchered as/after they’d surrendered and/or after the “war-ending” ceasefire had been announced).

    To all appearances, the idea is now to give the tonic a little time to take effect, jolting Americans into the realization that the sort of pain they’re now experiencing first-hand is no different from – or the least bit more excruciating than – that which they’ve been so cavalier in causing others, and thus to respond appropriately.

    No matter what its eventual fate, America will have gotten off very, very cheap.
    The full measure of its guilt can never be fully balanced or atoned for.

    via Kjell Olsen1427 days ago

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