Human Shields and Choice

[kandrathe]

This whole "he killed the kurds" thing really smacks of hypocrisy. Slaughters entire magnitudes larger go on all the time, and it's not usually the US who complains about them.

Who built the camps in Turkey, that the Kurdish refugees from northern Iraq stayed in?

Is the US guilty of any of your "slaughters entire magnitudes larger"? So then why stand in front of US bombs? Maybe I have a different definition of hypocrisy. To me, submitting yourself to the authorities in Baghdad to aid Saddam in protecting his "critical infrastructure", whilst not doing anything to protect the millions of Sudanese, or even lifting a finger to aid other war refugee's smacks of hipocrisy. It seems like "fashionable protest" to me. I think the US has made it pretty clear with the types of weapons they deployed in GW1, that they are not trying to kill civilians. I think this side show will end as it did just before GW1. When Saddam has used them for his PR campaign and gets tired of housing the "guests", they will get an escort to the border.

But, of course, nobody actually listens until it happily coincides with the war plans of the powers that be.

And how much of your time and money do you spend helping the needy? It's the same with international aid. It seems to me that in the US at least, there are quite a few "help the needy" government programs around the world. But then, I don't see anyone listening now, just two sides making alot of noise.