...Reality could not be more at odds with this ludicrous narrative. For the last decade and a half the United States, backed to varying degrees by the governments of other Western countries, has rained violence and destruction on the Arab and Muslim world with a ferocity that has few parallels in the history of modern warfare. It was not pencils and pens - let alone ideas - that left Iraq, Gaza and Afghanistan shattered and hundreds of thousands of human beings dead. Not twe...lve. Hundreds of thousands. All with stories, with lives, with families. Tens of millions who have lost friends, family, homes and watched their country be torn apart. To the victims of military occupation; to the people in the houses that bore the brunt of shock and awe bombing in Iraq; to those whose bodies were disfigured by white phosphorous and depleted uranium; to the parents of children who disappeared into the torture cells of Abu Ghraib; to all of them - what but cruel mockery is the contention that Western civilisation fights its wars with the pen and not the sword?
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 03:35:55 +0000
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