"Like many American's I was
shocked and saddened by the killings of innocent Afghan villagers this weekend.
We send our condolences to families who have
lost their loved ones and to the people of Afghanistan--
Wait"wait"are you ready for it?
--This is not who we are." There it
is again.
And then again last September, while chastising
a GOP Presidential debate audience for booing a gay soldier and cheering at the
prospect of someone dying without health care:
"That's
not reflective of who we are." Let's go to the replay.
Is there a pattern here?
This is not who we really are . If this is not who we are , t hen who the hell are we?
And why would the rest of the world share this sentiment,
after Fallujah, Gitmo,
Abu Ghraib, Haditha
or our increasing reliance on drone
attacks for prosecuting a war on suspected
terrorists, as well as innocent bystanders? It's a tough sell after
Obama's first term and almost 300 Drone attacks on Pakistan alone. According to
a February
2012 report by the UK's Bureau of Investigative Journalism in cooperation
with the London Sunday Times, between 282 and 535 civilians had been killed,
including 60 children, by CIA and Air Force joy-stick jockeys over eight
thousand miles away. To make matters
worse, tactics now include targeting responders tending to the wounded.
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