The fruits of liberation

[MNBrewer]

<http://www.salon.com/2011/11/25/the_fruits_of_liberation/>

Six children were among seven civilians killed in a NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Thursday.

..."we’re trained simply to accept these incidents as though they carry no meaning: we’re just supposed to chalk them up to regrettable accidents (oops), agree that they don’t compel a cessation to the war, and then get back to the glorious fighting. Every time that happens, this just becomes more normalized, less worthy of notice. It’s just like background noise: two families of children wiped out by an American missile (yawn: at least we don’t target them on purpose like those evil Terrorists: we just keep killing them year after year after year without meaning to)."

[zalinda]

1. I would recommend this 20 times, if I could. n/t

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[Cali_Democrat]

3. Rec

[MNBrewer]

4. The unrec brigade seems remarkably sensitive to having

their callousness exposed.

One might think that mentioning that the US military is exploding Afghan children to bits is worse than exploding the children to bits.

[ClassWarrior]

5. It seems some want to hide the children blown to bits so badly...

...they're willing to scrub history. What pleasant people they are.

NGU.

[MNBrewer]

6. I guess it's "the DU Way"

sometimes deleted subthreads speak louder than words.

[walerosco]

7. Some people in their

country killed 3000 americans and we turn around to kill 100s of thoudsand of their people while destroying and occupying their land for a decade. That is american justice for u

Not one responsible man wouldn't take up arms against the invaders if someone did the exact same thing to us. Just sad

[MNBrewer]

8. But out drones have a circle with a "D" in the middle

so that makes it a Good Thing.

[MNBrewer]

9. This is one of the reasons why I am part of the 16%.

of liberal Democrats who do not approve of the President.

[MNBrewer]

10. GDP continues to yawn

Who cares, as long as Obama did it, right?