Gaza and the lack of sense of scale

[Bonobo]

I read about 30 or 60 killed during the Gaza action and I find it hard not to think that that is the number of people the US kills in 3 or 4 drone strikes -the kind we have been doing for over a dozen years, the kind we do against imagined foes 5,000 miles away who do not possess the ability to strike at us except by words.

Of course any death of the innocent is unacceptable. No argument. But if we are to engage of discussions of scale involving the ratio of 300 to 1 then we certainly should discuss the real numbers in relation to what the government of largely Americans here at DU are doing in the world.

My point in brief? Scale matters. The depth of the sin must be weighed in real numbers and in consideration of real life threats faced by Israel - namely that they have an actual enemy firing actual weapons at them unlike the US. How much greater than the sins of America?

[cantbeserious]

1. Agreed - However - The Handlers And Minions For The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks

Are working overtime to generate next set of bogey men that will be used as justification for war.

Our emotions are being played now as part of the setup.

In that context, scale and scope are not relevant, emotions are.

[redgreenandblue]

2. I see both as facets of the same problem.

Both the actions of Israel and the drone strikes are symptoms of US imperialism. Israel is by no means an independent actor.

[Bonobo]

3. Israel has nothing to do with US imperialism Nt