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Selective Outrage Enables Murder
I’m not interested in a serial killer condemning another murderer.
We cannot allow countries to be invaded, the killing of innocent civilians, coups of democratically elected governments, and vicious attacks on people’s most basic of human rights — all in the name of a sadistic foreign leader who only cares about his country’s dominance (or revival of dominance) on the world stage.
We cannot allow him to spin the narrative and blatantly lie about something that is so (literally) painfully obvious. Referring to an avoidable tragedy by any other name does not change his culpability in inflicting mounting human suffering.
We cannot allow him to ruthlessly silence dissent and spin criticism of his policies as support for his enemy.
We all stand for democracy, self-determination and human rights.
We all agree — the United States must be stopped.
If you suddenly disagree, you are either deliberately turning a blind eye to US havoc overseas or you think that the US is somehow “justified” in its murderous interventionism.
I’ve met with many US State Department officials and foreign policy advisors who wholeheartedly believe in the latter. I can only describe it as surreal sociopathy. And yet, these are the “experts” that Western media choose…