US WAR POLICY
March 10, 2015
It is ironic to hear US UN
Ambassador Samantha Power berate Europeans for not increasing their military
spending just after President Obama’s memorialization of the Selma marchers led
by Martin Luther King, Jr., a follower of Gandhian non-violence (on BBC World
Service “News Hour,” http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-31813490 ). Power demands a unified, Euro-North American,
response to Islamic terrorists worldwide.
Hers is an unqualified call to greater global war, led by the US with
whomever we adopt an alliance of convenience.
On the BBC as in the US, we are fed little short of news of an
occasional tactical victory against the IS.
Our only principle is that the IS is a land of people whose violence is
uncivilized, and hence merit nothing but “degradation and destruction” by
bombardment, by which we have achieved a remarkably high kill ratio, thanks to
our wealth and technological advancement.
Our moral entitlement to be the superior killer aside, it does
everything to confirm that we are a devil of an enemy of unprecedented global
proportions, from Ukraine to Afghanistan most of all. To many no doubt, it just goes to show that
we are indeed the Great Satan, and to lend support those who would make us feel
the terror and destruction we inflict upon them. That makes me as an American feel more
vulnerable, let alone misrepresented.
The military restraint the Europeans are showing is a tribute to the
common defense of those who would shed their image as colonizers, a tribute to
their will to make peace rather than war, paired with a priority for domestic
public investment. We ought to be
following their lead, not proclaiming ourselves to be the world’s no. 1 public
god of death and destruction. If nothing
else, they’re being practical about national security, while we’re giving
ourselves cause for more insecurity. Love
and peace, hal
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