You won't win many friends with this column but it needed to be said. I expect lots of articles today moaning about the 3000 dead 20 years ago. But forgetting the 10s of millions killed by Americans directly or indirectly before and after. I just read an article in the New Yorker about the Afghan war as told by the rural women who lived …
You won't win many friends with this column but it needed to be said. I expect lots of articles today moaning about the 3000 dead 20 years ago. But forgetting the 10s of millions killed by Americans directly or indirectly before and after. I just read an article in the New Yorker about the Afghan war as told by the rural women who lived through it. Throw in Indonesia, Granada, Panama with all the others you list and is there any place on earth that doesn't have reason to hate America?
I just finished that article last night. It strikes me that the people nominally in charge can never remember that those countries like Afghanistan where we have created so many widows and orphans, are populated by people who can, will, and do carry a bone deep grudge for multiple generations. And they are not going to forget who killed great grandpa and grandma, not for hundreds of years.
You won't win many friends with this column but it needed to be said. I expect lots of articles today moaning about the 3000 dead 20 years ago. But forgetting the 10s of millions killed by Americans directly or indirectly before and after. I just read an article in the New Yorker about the Afghan war as told by the rural women who lived through it. Throw in Indonesia, Granada, Panama with all the others you list and is there any place on earth that doesn't have reason to hate America?
I just finished that article last night. It strikes me that the people nominally in charge can never remember that those countries like Afghanistan where we have created so many widows and orphans, are populated by people who can, will, and do carry a bone deep grudge for multiple generations. And they are not going to forget who killed great grandpa and grandma, not for hundreds of years.