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In reply to the discussion: Bless Chris Hedges! [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Better yet, I would like names. Genocide, Collateral Damage, 'what's in a name, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
This is just 1 little boy, and he is one of the lucky ones. He survived, at least up that point, sadly we do not keep track of these children whose countries we invade. So we don't really know and we don't really care, as a nation. But they do, his family, his loved ones. They really are human beings no different to us.
Third Party, Collateral Damage/Genocide whatever, Chris Hedges has seen these dead children in conflicts around the world, maybe he knows more than we do. Maybe our party loyalty is not such a good thing after all, at least not for the dead. But we can't talk about these things, discuss them, try to find a better way because 'there's an election coming'.
No one has been held accountable in this country for the murders/deaths/collateral damage/torture etc. of so many, many human beings. I care about how history will view how the American people reacted to these horrors perpetrated by their government against innocent people, that they at least acknowledged them. I would like to be on the right side of history when it is finally written. So all I can do is say how I feel about it, and all Chris Hedges can do is what he is doing.