{"id":29114,"date":"2012-03-14T00:37:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T04:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29114"},"modified":"2012-03-14T00:37:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T04:37:47","slug":"london-review-of-books-lone-gunman-not-the-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29114","title":{"rendered":"London Review of Books: “Lone gunman not the exception”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Again one thing that is nice about having many different people on Facebook is that I get a broader view of what is being said around the web. In this case comes from the website called London Review of Books. In this article by Tariq Ali called “The Not So Lone Gunman” <\/a>goes to paint every Solider as another crazy GI gun spree waiting to happen. <\/p>\n

In most colonial wars people are arrested, tortured at random and killed. Not even a fa\u00e7ade of legality is considered necessary. The \u2018lone\u2019 American gunman who butchered innocents in Afghanistan in the early hours of Sunday morning was far from being an exception. For this is not the act of a deranged maniac killing schoolchildren in an American city. The \u2018lone\u2019 killer is a sergeant in the US army. He\u2019s not the first and won\u2019t be the last to kill like this.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems by this being in the US Army is worse then being a deranged maniac killer. Good to know. It gets better.<\/p>\n

The Russian occupation of Afghanistan also witnessed \u2018lone gunmen\u2019 behaving in this fashion, but better-educated than many of their US counterparts<\/strong> they would write about the whys and wherefores in anguished diaries after they had been withdrawn\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep lets through in the dumb GI meme while we are at it. <\/p>\n

The \u2018enemy\u2019 is not hidden. It is the public. So wiping out women and children is part of the war. Helicopter gunships, bomber jets and drones are more effective killers than \u2018lone\u2019 gunmen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So were we have been conducting a massive kill all women and children campaign since 2001? I thing that anyone that ever did a Combat Air Patrol over Afghanistan would be quick to disagree. But he don’t let reality disprove another baby killer meme. I am not even sure how to respond to the last paragraph outside of profanity. I wonder if anyone here can do any better. <\/p>\n

\nSo what is to be done? Get out now. These wars that dehumanise the \u2018enemy\u2019 also dehumanise the citizens of warmongering nations. We are made to live in a state of ignorance, but by our apathy contribute to making sure that such a state continues indefinitely. The individual gunman will soon disappear from our thoughts and we can then settle down to the routine killings that take place every day, carried out collectively on the orders of politicians that we elect.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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