The media are focussing on one thing, showing the western world terrible images of a wounded country. Everyone sympathises with the U.S., but who was symphatising when the U.S. committed crimes agains innocent civilians? Who was reporting those events?
We don't like to see that, we prefer to listen to media that confirm our perception of good and bad.
A few lines from an article I read on michaelmore.com:
We abhor terrorism -- unless we're the ones doing the terrorizing.
We paid and trained and armed a group of terrorists in Nicaragua in the 1980s who killed over 30,000 civilians. That was OUR work. You and me. Thirty thousand murdered civilians and who the hell even remembers!
We fund a lot of oppressive regimes that have killed a lot of innocent people, and we never let the human suffering THAT causes to interrupt our day one single bit.
We have orphaned so many children, tens of thousands around the world, with our taxpayer-funded terrorism (in Chile, in Vietnam, in Gaza, in Salvador) that I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised when those orphans grow up and are a little whacked in the head from the horror we have helped cause.
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The media are focussing on one thing, showing the western world terrible images of a wounded country. Everyone sympathises with the U.S., but who was symphatising when the U.S. committed crimes agains innocent civilians? Who was reporting those events?
We don't like to see that, we prefer to listen to media that confirm our perception of good and bad.
A few lines from an article I read on michaelmore.com:
We abhor terrorism -- unless we're the ones doing the terrorizing.
We paid and trained and armed a group of terrorists in Nicaragua in the 1980s who killed over 30,000 civilians. That was OUR work. You and me. Thirty thousand murdered civilians and who the hell even remembers!
We fund a lot of oppressive regimes that have killed a lot of innocent people, and we never let the human suffering THAT causes to interrupt our day one single bit.
We have orphaned so many children, tens of thousands around the world, with our taxpayer-funded terrorism (in Chile, in Vietnam, in Gaza, in Salvador) that I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised when those orphans grow up and are a little whacked in the head from the horror we have helped cause.