December 14, 2013
"Imagine the uproar in [the U.S.] if a jet took out a wedding party. Just consider the attention given every time some mad gunman shoots up a post office, a college campus, or simply an off-campus party, if you want to get an idea. You might think then that, given the U.S. record of wedding carnage in Afghanistan, which undoubtedly represents some kind of modern wedding-crasher record, there might have been a front-page story, or simply a story, somewhere, anywhere, indicating the repetitive nature of such events. …And yet, if U.S. carnage in that country gets attention at all, it’s usually only to point out, in self-congratulatory fashion, that the Taliban – with their indiscriminate roadside bombs and their generally undiscriminating suicide bombers – are far worse."

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Tom Engelhardt

“That guy over there stabbed you twice, and i only stabbed you once!  See, I’m the good guy!”

6:25pm  |   URL: https://tmblr.co/ZMMjnx11DaHCC
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Filed under: politics drone attacks drones war on terror 
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