Gisteren kwam Anti-Media met een artikel onder de titel: 'If America Wasn’t America, the United States Would Be Bombing It'. Hoewel ik de opzet van deze zin begrijp, klopt deze toch niet helemaal. Immers de VS laat andere terreurstaten gewoon hun gang gaan, zolang ze maar de VS steunen.... Neem Israël en Saoedi-Arabië, die zelfs door de VS worden gesteund in de terreur die ze brengen, en door diezelfde VS worden ontzien in de VN Veiligheidsraad, als het om resoluties tegen de smerige, bloederige praktijken gaat waar deze 2 landen zich keer op keer schuldig aan maken......
Maar geen gezeik: zeker niet als je ziet dat de VS haar illegale oorlogen verdedigt door te stellen dat het voor de verdrukte volkeren opkomt en democratie wil brengen**.
Darius Shahtahmasebi schreef het artikel n.a.v. een opiniestuk van voormalig VS regeringsadviseur Edward Luttwak. Deze oorlogshitser stelde in de kop dat het tijd is voor de VS om Noord-Korea te bombarderen.
Lullig genoeg voor Luttwak, gebruikte hij argumenten die nu juist van toepassing zijn op de wandel en handel van de VS... Zo geeft Shahtahmasebi een aantal voorbeelden, zoals het gebruik van atoombommen door de VS tegen Hiroshima en Nagasaki, terwijl deze aanvallen totaal onnodig waren zoals o.a. de hoge VS militairen Nimitz en Halsey destijds betoogden.
Lees het volgende artikel van Shahtahmasebi en oordeel zelf:
If America Wasn’t America, the United States Would Be Bombing It
February
12, 2018 at 1:00 pm
Written
by Darius
Shahtahmasebi
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — On
January 8, 2018, former government advisor Edward Luttwak wrote
an opinion
piece for Foreign
Policy titled
“It’s Time to Bomb North Korea.”
Luttwak’s
thesis is relatively straightforward. There is a government out there
that may very soon acquire nuclear-weapons capabilities, and this
country cannot be trusted to responsibly handle such a stockpile. The
responsibility to protect the world from a rogue nation cannot be
argued with, and we understandably have a duty to ensure the future
of humanity.
However,
there is one rogue nation that continues to hold the world ransom
with its nuclear weapons supply. It is decimating non-compliant
states left, right, and center. This country must be stopped dead in
its tracks before anyone turns to the issue of North Korea.
In
August of 1945, this rogue nation dropped two atomic bombs on
civilian targets, not military targets, completely
obliterating between 135,000
and 300,000 Japanese civilians in just these two acts alone. Prior to
this event, this country killed even more civilians in the infamous
firebombing of
Tokyo and other areas of Japan, dropping close to 500,000 cylinders
of napalm and petroleum jelly on some of Japan’s most densely
populated areas.
Recently,
historians have become more open to the possibility that dropping the
atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not actually necessary to
end World War II. This has also been confirmed by those who actually
took part in it. As the Nation explained:
“Fleet
Adm. Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, stated
in a public address at the Washington Monument two months after the
bombings that ‘the
atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military
standpoint, in the defeat of Japan…’ Adm.
William “Bull” Halsey Jr., Commander of the US Third Fleet,
stated publicly in 1946 that ‘the
first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment…. It
was a mistake to ever drop it…. [the scientists] had this toy and
they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it…” [emphasis
added]
A
few months’ prior, this rogue country’s invasion of
the Japanese island of Okinawa also claimed at least one quarter of
Okinawa’s population. The Okinawan people have been protesting this
country’s military presence ever since. The most recent ongoing
protest has
lasted well over 5,000 days in
a row.
This
nation’s bloodlust continued well after the end of World War II.
Barely half a decade later, this country bombed North Korea into
complete oblivion, destroying over
8,700 factories, 5,000 schools, 1,000 hospitals, 600,000 homes,
and eventually
killing off
as much as 20 percent of the country’s population. As the Asia
Pacific Journal has
noted, the assaulting country dropped so many bombs that they
eventually ran out of targets to hit, turning to bomb the irrigation
systems, instead:
“By
the fall of 1952, there were no effective
targets left for US planes to hit.
Every significant town, city and industrial area in North Korea had
already been bombed. In the spring of 1953, the Air Force targeted
irrigation dams on the Yalu River, both to destroy the North Korean
rice crop and to pressure the Chinese, who would have to supply more
food aid to the North. Five reservoirs were hit, flooding thousands
of acres of farmland, inundating whole towns and laying waste to the
essential food source for millions of North Koreans.” [emphasis
added]
This
was just the beginning. Having successfully destroyed the future
North Korean state, this country moved on to the rest of East Asia
and Indo-China, too. As Rolling
Stone’s Matt
Taibbi has explained:
“We
[this loose cannon of a nation] dumped 20 million gallons of toxic
herbicide on Vietnam from the air, just to make the shooting easier
without all those trees, an insane plan to win ‘hearts and minds’
that has left about a million still disabled from defects and disease
– including about 100,000 children, even decades later, little kids
with misshapen heads, webbed hands and fused eyelids writhing on
cots, our real American legacy, well out of view, of course.”
This
mass murder led to the deaths of between 1.5 million and 3.8 million
people, according to
the Washington
Post.
More bombs were dropped on Vietnam than were unleashed during
the entire
conflict in World War II.
While this was going on, this same country was also secretly
bombing Laos
and Cambodia, too, where there are over 80
million unexploded bombs still
killing people to this day.
This
country also decided to bomb Yugoslavia, Panama,
and Grenada before
invading Iraq in the early 1990s***. Having successfully bombed Iraqi
infrastructure, this country then punished Iraq’s entire civilian
population with brutal sanctions. At the time, the
U.N. estimated that
approximately 1.7 million Iraqis had died as a result, including
500,000 to 600,000 children.
Some years later, a prominent medical journal attempted
to absolve the cause of
this infamous history by refuting the statistics involved despite the
fact that, when interviewed during the sanctions-era, Bill Clinton’s
secretary of state,
Madeleine
Albright, intimated that
to this rogue government, the deaths of half a million children were
“worth it” as the “price” Iraq needed to pay. In other words,
whether half a million children died or not was irrelevant to this
bloodthirsty nation, which barely blinked while carrying out this
murderous policy.
This
almighty superpower then invaded Iraq again in 2003 and plunged the
entire region
into chaos.
At the end of May 2017, the Physicians for Social Responsibility
(PSR) released a study concluding
that the death toll from this violent nation’s 2003 invasion of
Iraq had led to over one million deaths and that at least one-third
of them were caused directly by the invading force.
Not
to mention this country also invaded Afghanistan prior to the
invasion of Iraq (even though the militants plaguing
Afghanistan were
originally trained and financed by this warmongering nation). It
then went
on to bomb Yemen,
Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, and the Philippines.
Libya famously had
one of the highest standards of living in the region. It had
state-assisted healthcare, education, transport, and affordable
housing. It is now a lawless war-zone rife
with extremism where
slaves are openly
traded like
commodities amid the power vacuum created as a direct result of the
2011 invasion.
In
2017, the commander-in-chief of this violent nation took the
monumental death and destruction to a new a level by removing
the restrictions on
delivering airstrikes, which resulted in thousands upon thousands of
civilian deaths. Before that, in the first six months of 2017, this
country dropped
over 20,650 bombs,
a monumental increase from the year that preceded it.
Despite
these statistics, all of the above conquests are mere child’s play
to this nation. The real prize lies in some of the more defiant and
more powerful states, which this country has already unleashed a
containment strategy upon. This country has deployed its own troops
all across the border
with Russia even
though it promised
in the early 1990s it
would do no such thing. It also has a specific policy of containing
Russia’s close ally, China, all
the while threatening China’s borders with talks of direct strikes
on North Korea (again, remember it already did so in the 1950s).
This
country also elected a president who not only believes it is okay
to embrace
this rampantly violent militarism but
who openly calls other
countries “shitholes”
– the very same term that aptly describes the way this country has
treated the rest of the world for decades on end. This same president
also reportedly once asked three
times in a meeting,
“If
we have nuclear weapons, why don’t we use them?”
and shortly after proposed a policy to remove
the constraints protecting
the world from his dangerous supply of advanced nuclear weaponry.
When
it isn’t directly bombing a country, it is also arming
radical insurgent groups,
creating instability, and directly overthrowing
governments through
its covert
operatives on
the ground.
If
we have any empathy for humanity, it is clear that this country must
be stopped. It cannot continue to act like this to the detriment of
the rest of the planet and the safety and security of the rest of us.
This country openly
talks about
using its nuclear weapons, has used them before, and has continued to
use all manner of weapons unabated in the years since while
threatening to expand the use of these weapons to other countries.
Seriously,
if North Korea seems like a threat, imagine how the rest of the world
feels while watching one country violently take on the rest of the
planet single-handedly, leaving nothing but destruction in its wake
and promising nothing less than a nuclear holocaust in the years to
come.
There
is only one country that has done and that continues to do the very
things North Korea is being accused of doing.
Take
as much time as you need for that to resonate.
* De grootste genocide ooit werd uitgevoerd in Noord-, Midden- en Zuid-Amerika
** 'Democratie brengen', zelfs in landen waar NB een democratisch gekozen regering zat of zit, neem Syrië en Oekraïne (onder Janoekovytsj), waar de CIA eerst een opstand organiseerde, om deze te laten eindigen in een staatsgreep; deze zaak lukte wel in Oekraïne, maar niet in Syrië, waardoor deze landen wel in oorlog raakten en in chaos werden gestort......
*** De oorlog van de VS (NAVO) tegen Joegoslavië vond plaats nadat de VS op 17 januari 1991 onder de oude Bush-slachter (George H.W. Bush) de eerste VS oorlog tegen Irak begon, dit in tegenstelling tot wat Shahtahmasebi daar hierboven over heeft geschreven.
En om nog even te herinneren aan de enorme agressie van de VS, die niet op een illegale oorlog meer of minder kijkt: 'VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen..........' en: 'List of wars involving the United States'
Zie ook: 'Top VS generaal stelt dat er een grote oorlog met Rusland op komst is, ofwel: WOIII......'
en: 'Trumps atoomknop is groter dan die van Kim Yung-un, bovendien werkt de VS knop wel....... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'
en: 'VN chef Guterres geeft alarmcode rood af voor de wereld in 2018 en niet alleen vanwege het milieu of klimaat......'
en: 'Trumps uitlating over de atoomknop en de onverschilligheid bij zijn achterban, een dictatuur waardig.........'
en: 'VS op weg naar daadwerkelijk gebruik van het kernwapen..............' (plus twee andere Engelstalige artikelen)
en: 'VS sluit een nucleaire aanval niet uit als een mogelijke reactie op een 'cyberaanval.......''
en: 'NAVO oefent op een nucleaire aanval tegen 'een denkbeeldige vijand', ofwel Rusland..........' (de NAVO is in feite een organisatie van de VS en is daarmee een organisatie die dan ook precies doet wat de VS wil en de VS helpt in haar grootschalige terreur )
en: 'Pompeo (CIA opperhoofd met koperen fluit): heeft alle aanwijzingen dat Rusland de midterm verkiezingen zal manipuleren......'
En om nog even te herinneren aan de enorme agressie van de VS, die niet op een illegale oorlog meer of minder kijkt: 'VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen..........' en: 'List of wars involving the United States'
Dan nog over het bedreigen van Noord-Korea door Trump met 'Fire and Fury): 'Noord-Korea verkeerd begrepen: het land wordt bedreigd door de VS, dat alleen deze eeuw al minstens 4 illegale oorlogen begon........' en: 'Noord-Korea wil graag overleggen met de VS dat alweer de boot afhoudt.........'
