These violent, murderous actions taken by the United States, for reasons ranging from the flimsy and convenient to outright lies, but all resulting in the deaths of millions of innocent people and the suffering of millions more, are as "senseless" and worthy of condemnation as the Aurora shootings. And the victims of these despicable U.S. policies are as worthy of being mourned, and the survivors and their relatives and friends, as worthy of being consoled and comforted, as those in Colorado.
It is time to change the terms of
discourse in this country to include the violence and destruction now being
committed by U.S. forces in the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Latin
America, and the Western Pacific (such as Obama's recent drone strikes in the
Philippines), ostensibly and officially for our "defense" and "freedom", as well
as by U.S. corporations here and abroad against people and the planet, all for
profits, until we see these actions as "senseless" and as deserving of both
condemnation and prevention as those committed in Aurora,
Colorado.
Innocent victims of U.S. military and
corporate violence throughout the world already know that they are pawns of
policies designed only to maintain or expand the U.S. military and corporate
Empire in its insane quest for global hegemony.
Only most USans seem to be naà ¯ve, willfully ignorant, or acquiescent in
refusing to acknowledge the "senseless" violence committed in our name by our
nation and the corporations which control the U.S. government. It is time more of us grew up or woke up to
this grim reality and let the scales of mythical "U.S. exceptionalism", which
have blinded too many of us for so long, fall from our
eyes.
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