Boston to Baghdad: Senseless Violence...

[georgephillip]

"..Roman Catholic Cardinal Sean O’Malley prayed for the victims and 'preached forgiveness' at a packed Cathedral of the Holy Cross mass, referring to the 'senseless violence . . . difficult to understand...'”

What part of "senseless violence...difficult to understand" do supporters of the War on Terror find confusing?

"'Senseless violence . . . difficult to understand.' A week before the Boston Marathon, a C.I.A.-directed air strike killed an estimated 20 Afghan people, including 11 small children. The shocking photo of all these dead young children, lying side by side for burial, may be seen in a Huffington Post story on 'Afghanistan: NATO Air Strike Kills 11 Children,' by Kim Gamel, Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post, Apr. 7, 2013.)

“'Senseless violence . . . difficult to understand.' In 2004, the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board Task Force studied the blowback effect of the Bush administration’s warfare policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and concluded,

"Muslims do not 'hate our freedom,' but rather, they hate our policies.

"The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights, and the longstanding, even increasing support for what Muslims collectively see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan, and the Gulf States."

The Boston-Baghdad Connection » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Why do supporters of the War on Terror find it difficult to understand how the mass murder of more Muslim children guarantees more senseless violence from Boston to Baghdad?

 

[Moonglow]

Nothing new.

 

[Crackerjaxon]

Yes. How does US the presence in the Middle East do anything for the American people but kill their young men and women and put the populace in danger?

Why are we over there?

 

[georgephillip]

Yes. How does US the presence in the Middle East do anything for the American people but kill their young men and women and put the populace in danger?

Why are we over there?

Apparently our interest extends from the end of WWII, at least.
Eisenhower wrote about taking control of the most stupendous material prize in all history, namely Arab oil. Today the Caspean Sea and its surrounding nations/nation states is becoming just as valuable in the minds of western corporations as Iran and the Arab states were in the 1950s. Arms sales, oil sales, and laundering illegal drug profits are the three biggest money makers on the planet, and we seem to have hit a trifecta in Afghanistan.

 

[georgephillip]

Nothing new.

Too true.
What percentage of Americans know as much about the victims of US drones in Afghanistan as they know about pressure cookers in Boston?

"Tell these stories to the mothers and fathers and their families in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, where US drones fly overhead, 24 hours a day, creating constant, crippling terror—and inflicting death and injury to thousands of innocent children and their loved ones; and other US-led aerial assaults and special forces, at any time, bring sudden death to Afghan villagers. All this trumped up 'war on terror' against innocent human beings– in our name."

The Boston-Baghdad Connection » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

 

[georgephillip]

"'Senseless violence . . . difficult to understand.'

"How about Iraq? With more than one million civilians killed, over four million made refugees, the country’s infrastructure destroyed, and continuing, severe sectarian violence. The lives of some 4500 Americans needlessly sacrificed, with over 100,00 more maimed in body and mind.

"Billions of dollars of our country’s resources wasted.

"America’s military-industrial complex profiting—like former Vice President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton making $39.5 billion off the Iraq war. ('Report: Halliburton Subsidiary Received $39.5 Billion For Iraq War Alone,' jonathanturley.org, Apr. 8, 2013)

"And a United Methodist president, who should be indicted as a war criminal for launching the falsely based, illegal and immoral invasion and occupation of Iraq.

"Instead, he has recently celebrated the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Museum and Library at Southern Methodist University—with President Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush, Sr. lending legitimacy to his obscene monument."

The Boston-Baghdad Connection » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Carter, Clinton, and both Bushes all deserve the Nuremberg solution.