How can we say the well-being and healthcare of innocent children/human beings is the most important issue in this country—and in this world, and then ignore and/or remain silent when it comes to the innocent lives Americans are taking every day?
Daily Kos 13-year community member known as “Subir” is on my top ten list of most respected, honest, factual and informative writers here. We respectfully—yet boldly clashed during Democratic primaries, but this community exemplifies how we can overlook differences to find our many similarities.
Subir continues to write about the atrocities committed by the United States each time we steal innocent lives via air raids, botched air raids, land raids... and selling weapons to countries like Saudi Arabia knowing the Saudis would be using the transaction to bomb sanctuaries and massacre civilians in Yemen. This puts the bloodshed they cause onto the hands of all Americans. And the more we ignore this, the dirtier and bloodier our hands become.
This year, Trump made one such transaction.
The weapons sale was one of the largest in history, totaling close to $110 billion worth of tanks, artillery, radar systems, armored personnel carriers, and Blackhawk helicopters. The package also included ships, patrol boats, Patriot missiles, and THAAD missile defense systems...
This puts the U.S. in a precarious ethical position, say human rights groups and former U.S. officials. The Saudi-led airstrike campaign has hit numerous schools, hospitals, factories, and other civilian targets, leading to well-documented allegations of war crimes by human rights organizations. The war has also pushed much of the country to the brink of starvation, with more than 17 million people facing famine, according to the U.N.
“There’s a humanitarian aspect that tends to be ignored. This is something that will come back to bite the Saudis as well, and by implication the Americans, because we’re the ones providing the bombs and bullets,” says Robert Jordan, the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia…
Adding to the facilitaion of civilian slaughter, we then try to sweep our guilt under the rug.
Below is a meme that was made directly after Trump’s first Joint Session speech where he vilified immigrants and Muslims. He then pumped his chest using the emotions of a grieving military widow whose husband was died during the botched Yemen raid—which Trump ordered. No mention, during Trump’s speech, was made about Nora or any other civilian who was slaughtered during the raid. This is but one small example of how our country glosses over truths, while creating terrorists.
Nora.
Here is Subir’s latest diary. www.dailykos.com/. It’s one of the many stories he has written on this issue. Let me state—there is no need for me to advocate for Subir. He has a strong and well-heard voice here. If more of us asked these critical questions that often get ignored, we might not only expose what the government and media are not telling us, but also attenuate the problem and save lives. As a member of the Daily Kos community, as an American and as a human being, it’s important for me and others to say something. So we are.