米国は民主国家なので、軍事行動には、国民の説得が要る。ロシア軍が戦争犯罪という報道は、ロシア軍が戦争犯罪したという事実ではなく、米国が参戦の布石を置いたという事実を示す。おそらく戦争犯罪も事実だろうけれど。 https://t.co/V6RBsYDuDW
— buvery (@buvery) March 23, 2022
“When Biden says that Russia has no right to unilaterally change international boundaries, that countries cannot expand their territory by force, he’s certainly correct. But he seems to think it’s OK if you’re a U.S. ally like Morocco.”力による一方的現状変更が駄目なら西サハラの駄目なはずだが、アメリカの同盟国ならいいってことけ？ この偽善者が、と。
War Criminals Must Be Held Accountable, Whether in Russia, the U.S. or Elsewhere
If a man in the Kremlin can be charged with war crimes for ordering an illegal invasion, what is to stop the same charges from being levied against a man in the White House for doing the same thing? Former President George W. Bush did just that in 2003.プーチンが戦争犯罪なら２００３年に同じことしたブッシュも同罪だろ。
“Not for an instant would I want to minimize the horrors that are unfolding in Ukraine today and the deaths and the injuries inflicted on noncombatants,” Bacevich said recently on the Democracy Now! news hour. “But let’s face it, the numbers are minuscule compared to the number of people that died, were displaced, were injured as a consequence of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan…in the vicinity of 900,000 deaths resulted from our invasion[s]. Iウクライナの残虐行為を過小評価するつもりはないが、アフガン、イラクの非道はもっとひどかった、と。
Hedges: The Lie of American Innocence by MODERATOR March 21, 2022 123 Commentson Hedges: The Lie of American Innocence"The Lie of American Innocence" by Chris Hedgeshttps://t.co/buMttoHDhf
— Chris Hedges (@ChrisLynnHedges) March 21, 2022
Our hypocrisy on war crimes makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible.
If we demand justice for Ukrainians, as we should, we must also demand justice for the one million people killed — 400,000 of whom were noncombatants — by our invasions, occupations and aerial assaults in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan.
This hypocrisy is not new. There is no moral difference between the saturation bombing the US carried out on civilian populations since World War II, including in Vietnam and Iraq, and the targeting of urban centers by Russia in Ukraine or the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Mass death and fireballs on a city skyline are the calling cards we have left across the globe for decades. Our adversaries do the same.
The deliberate targeting of civilians, whether in Baghdad, Kyiv, Gaza, or New York City, are all war crimes. The killing of at least 112 Ukranian children, as of March 19, is an atrocity, but so is the killing of 551 Palestinian children during Israel’s 2014 military assault on Gaza. So is the killing of 230,000 people over the past seven years in Yemen from Saudi bombing campaigns and blocades that have resulted in mass starvation and cholera epidemics. Where were the calls for a no-fly zone over Gaza and Yemen? Imagine how many lives could have been saved.
“LeMay said if we’d lost the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as war criminals,” McNamara said in the film. “And I think he’s right…LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose, and not immoral if you win?”
ウクライナの市民虐殺も犯罪なら、イラク、アフガン、シリア、イエメン、パキスタンの市民虐殺も戦争犯罪。
１１２人のウクライナの子供の殺害も犯罪なら、５５１名のパレスチナの子供の虐殺も犯罪だ、と。
第２次大戦で日本に空襲したレメイは、負けたたらおれらは戦争犯罪人だ、といみじくも、言ったが、負けたら戦争犯罪、勝ったら無罪、というのはおかしいだろう？と。
AMY GOODMAN: You know, maybe that’s where you’ve got it wrong, when you say the world sees. I think the world doesn’t see the way it sees what’s happening in Ukraine right now. I want to read a tweet from CodePink. “Why is there such a disparity between coverage of the war on Ukraine vs. the war on Yemen? Coverage of Yemen reveals the US and UK’s complicity in creating the humanitarian crisis. Coverage of Ukraine constructs the US, the UK, & their allies as the 'saviors of democracy.'”
同じ悪いことやっても、英米がやるとほとんど取り上げられないのに、ロシアがやると、英米が民主主義の救済主になってしまうのはなぜ、と。
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