The government takes a dim view of the mass murder of children – when it’s by a freelancer here in the United States. When one of its own soldiers does it overseas in a US-declared conflict zone, on the other hand, it’s highly condoned.
Hero or Zero? Depends Where It Happened.
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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“The government takes a dim view of the mass murder of children.” Er … how about “The government claims that it takes a dim view of the mass murder of economically disadvantaged children.” I guarantee, when some maniac shoots up a school where the politicians and the tech bigwigs send their spawn, we’ll see some action. But the notion that the gummint — dem or Republican — takes more than a single second to belch “thoughts and prayers” between gulping mouthfuls from the trough and then going back to auto-pilot “concern” is not one I accept as an unshakeable initial premise.
90% of the victims of US drone attacks are innocent bystanders, and many of those “bystanders” are children. Daniel Hale is serving a lengthy prison sentence for revealing this lengthy string of US war crimes.