Does anyone get sick of our culture of killing? (August 1, Chronicle article “Afghanistan policy to shift to killing key insurgents”). Killing solves international disputes! Killing solves disputes within the U.S! One cannot pick up a newspaper without seeing drones kill so many people, or the U.S. has a new policy of selective killing in areas of conflict (mostly started by the U.S.). Among all the killings both domestic and international what is left out are by-standers: relatives of the killed, pedestrians in the wrong place at the wrong time, etc. Internationally, far more by-standers caught in the conflict are killed than so-called terrorists. What are called terrorists in faraway places would be called patriots if Americans fought off an invader, an occupier. Reagan had a name for such people, “freedom fighters”.
Martin Luther King said it best, the United States Is "The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today” and added that “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
It is time to stop glorying in killing.
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