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A gunman fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night, in a brutal attack that is blamed for at least 58 deaths, police say. In the mass shooting and panic that ensued, 515 people were injured. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert.
Editorializing: Interesting how media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists, but downplay domestic terrorism as psychologically disturbed individual lone-wolfs.
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(Score: 1) by rylyeh on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:43AM (1 child)
"If men are not afraid to die,
It is no avail to threaten them with death."
-Lao Tzu
The US cannot ignore the new threats it created by it's actions in the Middle East and elsewhere.
That's why it should not wage wars (military police actions in most cases) unless ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR DEFENSE.
WWII - required.
Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq - Not!
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:49PM
The US cannot ignore the new threats it created by it's action
We're largely on the same wavelength.
Note here that a pronoun never requires an apostrophe to make it possessive (its, yours, theirs, hers, ours).
it's == it is; it has
its == belongs to it
Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq - Not [necessary]
Yup. Everything since September 2, 1945 has been about USAian|Western hegemony.
In order to get the full truth, throw in repeated instances of a president's sagging approval numbers.
(Only Carter resisted the temptation to do an overt military aggression--though he did plenty of covert stuff e.g. in Latin America.)
WWII - required
We need to acknowledge that the USAian hegemony thing was going on even back then.
A point that is routinely mentioned in the context of Pearl Harbor [google.com] is USA's naval blockade of Japan's trade in petroleum via the Malaccan Strait. [wikimedia.org]
Antagonism by USA, rather than engaging in proper diplomacy, was a major factor in the outbreak of WWII.
...and, again, Japan's Imperialism has to be compared to USA's Imperialism (The Philippines[1] had been a colonial possession of USA since the Spanish-American War[2]; Hawaii was invaded and occupied by USAian Marines in the same era).
[1] ...the site of much butchery by USA.gov during that occupation.
[2] ...yet another war started on false pretenses. [google.com]
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