No Difference for an Iraqi Mother - Whether Death Was Ordered by a Bush or Clinton.

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Former President Bush's human rights were threatened, and although he was unharmed, some non-American lives or rights to life were deemed expendable in what was described by Clinton as an appropriate retaliatory response. The child's death becomes appropriate.

One can be reasonably sure that no media person will draw any comparison with the US government attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro nor with the 'destabilizing' of the elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile and reflect on the lack of retaliation from those countries.

Is there any legal machinery by which the mother of the deceased child could seek justice against those responsible for the violation of her and her child's human rights? At least if the US government could be forced to insist that the masterminds behind the abortive Bush assassination attempt are also guilty of the accidental killing by virtually forcing the US to attack within a populous city, then the world would be one step closer to preventing a repetition of this kind of intended minimum violence by the world's only superpower.

For even answering this mother's accusation would bring media attention and a higher value being placed on the human rights of an innocent child in an 'enemy' country. These highly touted surgical air strikes are meant to retaliate. Yet their shortcomings seem to increase the prestige of the foe under attack because of sympathy felt for the innocents sacrificed.

When one considers that all events are part of destiny, then this one-and-a-half-year-old was destined never to be a two-year-old. Rather, its destiny was to be one-eighth of the pre-calculated and acceptable minimum loss of human life in a long-range missile bombing in which no individual was considered to have any human rights at all.

Our destiny is have seen the child's photo on TV and for some of us to consider that as an indictment of those who fire missiles in retaliation.

But most of us will require a little more exposure before our mass-media conditioned minds can appreciate what should be any child's individual human right. For while the media have allowed us a glimpse of the dead child's photo in the hands of the mother, they continue to present us with justifications for self-righteous initiators of official military action to be exempted from respecting innocent human life.

It the world's only remaining superpower is not strong enough to respect individual human right number one, what shall we expect?

[ This article was part of a series by Jay Janson on conglomerate owned commercial media cultural pollution as affecting seven areas in human society world wide, but especially in the United States. ]

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