A precision war-machine is what people believe the US has. Movies talk about how they can pinpoint any target and take them out, anywhere on the planet.
What happens when they get it wrong? More people die that they didn't "intend" on killing, such as women and children. But they don't admit to murder, instead they euphemize it with "collateral damage" in order to justify doing it some more.
The drone program has been like this, despite claims that it was superior than previous air targeting delivery mechanisms from jets or ships to blow things and people up. A recent drone strike carried out on Thursday in the Sangin District of southern Afghanistan resulted in more civilian casualties with up to 20 people being "killed", or murdered if they weren't guilty of anything at all. Earlier this month the same thing happened with more "collateral damage".
Much of the time NATO, or any of the US allies, will confirm that they carry out airstrikes in a certain area. What they wont do in all cases, is admit that there were civilian casualties. When you're attacking people, and innocent people die, you don't want to be talking about these innocent civilian deaths.
Military invaders rarely take responsibility for their actions. They are in a war zone, and even if 40 civilians are killed like was done last week in Yemen when the US military invaded, they will always justify that as their right to defend themselves with the unfortunate consequence that there are civilian deaths reframed as "collateral damage". The US and other military powers will conveniently ignore international law when it doesn't suit them to follow it.
If a flimsy superficial body like the United Nations won't do anything, then it's up to the rest of the world to stand against what is wrong and put pressure. The UN is a joke with the human rights council being led by one of the world's most egregious violators of human rights, Saudi Arabia. I don't know how anyone can take the UN seriously.
Under international law, an invading force (which is what the United States has become) is required to keep the civilian population safe and not steal the natural resources. As most people who are aware, this is not what the United States has been doing for the past 15 years since it started its invasion of the Middle East.
Right now there is an imperialist bully seeking to invade and conquer lands like has been done in past centuries and accepted by the world. But we're supposed to be living in more "enlightened" times, except it doesn't seem to be the case. The world needs to stand up against bullies, in the United States, and elsewhere in the world including the Middle East and anywhere else where violations and violence is occurring. A spotlight can be shined onto the dark, horrible, immoral and evil ways that many people in countries are collectively engaging in.
It's like that saying where some dominating control enforced is going to take different social groups within a society, and we don't say anything because they aren't coming for us. They went after the poor people, but I didn't say anything that I wasn't the poor person. They went after the unemployed, but in say anything because I wasn't unemployed. They went after the women, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't a woman. Etc.
Well now we have this at a global scale, where nations are not saying anything in fear of becoming a target. As long as the US and other forces are not coming for me, my country in mine, then I'm not in the speak up and say anything about it because I don't want them to target me next.
Invading and occupying forces required to take care of the civilian population under international law, but the US, Israel and many other dominating violent forces are doing whatever they want in their deluded madness.
Given the advanced state of technology that is alleged to be in the drones were they can surveil and pinpoint the location of anybody, it's laughable that they claim they can't detect when children and women and other civilians are in an area in order to prevent them from launching a bomb. Either they have laser precision strikes, or they are just killing anyone in the area when they decide to launch their bombs.
The military invaders, occupiers and dominators are lying about what they are doing. Even when they claim to be admitting something, they are admitting the full story. The Pentagon confirmed 200 civilian deaths since the start of its campaign in Syria and Iraq to target IS. For anyone that has been following the reality for the past few years, knows that these figures are a joke. The US and allies keep murdering innocent people, and chalking up these civilian casualties to "collateral damage" so that they can keep indiscriminately killing people around the world. There is large-scale lack of accountability and responsibility for murders being committed under the guise of self-defense through these mad wars.
The US and other imperial powers are creating an atmosphere of acceptance of murder and an unwillingness to take responsibility for those actions. If the US isn't to be held accountable, then why should any other nation?
What we have in the world is a massive illusion of "good" and "order". Everyone goes around in their jobs, looking forward to the weekend, so they can go party with their friends, go on vacations a few times a year with their family, have fun, enjoy life in their little geographic location and illusory perception and bubble of unreality. Everyone just wants to do what's popular, fun, entertaining and that titillates their senses.
Facing the world as it is, and getting people to unite in greater moral depth, has always been one of the greatest challenges for humanity to accomplish in any age. But that is the way freedom, peace and prosperity can be created in varying degrees as we continue to march away from immorality and evil in our various ways of life and seek to embrace the real life and living that understanding what is moral and good can reward us with.
References:
- Targeted Killings Becoming an International Norm Thanks to U.S. Drone Policies
- ‘US military can no longer plead ‘collateral damage’ when it’s been happening for 17 years’
- The Mass Grave We Call Collateral Damage
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