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tweakabelle -> RE: So who's a terrorist now ..... ? (9/28/2012 11:08:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: KarlAldenTyrell
IMO, the main stream media is propaganda and disinformation, specially with anything remotely close to war or to a country thats targeted for an upcoming military operation or covert coup or US backed civil war. Its been this way for over a century, as can be understood with a number of books such as "War is a Racket" by Smedley Butler.
If the factions within the US establishment want to invade Monaco, by the time the bombs are ready to drop, you(or many americans), will be saying "Its about time we bombed Monaco".
Of course, theres many instances when scores of people are killed without even being a blip on the media radar, such as when US backed terrorists/death squads/guerrillas do the job instead. Or when its "just" the indirect result of economic sanctions, such as those that lead to the death of thousands of children in Iraq under the Clinton presidency.
(this was intended as a reply to the OP)
Thank you for your response.
The NYU/Stanford study detailed a series of tactics that sound like they are straight out of Terrorism 101 - bombings of civilians, targeted assassinations, double-taps (missile attacks on a site aimed at the rescuers), bombings of funerals and community gatherings and so on.
Most people have no difficulty understanding the terror Israelis feel at rockets being fired into Israel from Gaza. (Gazans feel exactly the same terror from Israeli missile strikes.) From the report it would appear that the residents of NW Pakistan are experiencing precisely the same terror from drone attacks.
Importantly for Americans, Glenn Greenwald (writing in the Guardian) draws a direct connection between drone missile attacks and terrorist activity inside the US itself, using the case of the Times Square bomber. In the bomber's own words:
"'Well, the drone hits in Afghanistan and Iraq, they don't see children, they don't see anybody. They kill women, children, they kill everybody. It's a war, and in war, they kill people. They're killing all Muslims' . . . .
"'I am part of the answer to the U.S. terrorizing the Muslim nations and the Muslim people. And, on behalf of that, I'm avenging the attack. Living in the United States, Americans only care about their own people, but they don't care about the people elsewhere in the world when they die.'" http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/25/study-obama-drone-deaths
In other words, the drone missile terrorism practiced by the US in Pakistan is provoking domestic terrorism and endangering American lives in the homeland.
When one considers the study's findings, the question 'Why do they hate us?" seems almost facile - the answer is so glaringly obvious. The only surprising thing is that Americans are surprised by Muslims responding to US terrorism with their own terrorism.
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