We'll Never Learn

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/We-ll-Never-Learn-by-Timothy-Gatto-Beheadings_Blowback_Bombing_Disaster-140914-847.html



We'll Never Learn
By Timothy Gatto
OpEdNews Op Eds 9/14/2014 at 12:51:10

America is on the verge of another "Crusade". Of course they are not telling us this directly, but the mass media has lined up its "polls" and has concluded that 90% of Americans want to defeat ISIS or ISIL or IS (whatever). The reason for this is because of the beheadings of two Americans and a Brit. Understandable, right?

I guess if you believe what the media tells you, you really can't be faulted for being outraged. When I saw the first video, I too, was incensed. It is pretty hard not to be outraged. Still, the longer I think about it, the more I wonder about some of the things America has done in Iraq and the rest of the area.

Making a video of a person having his head severed is very dramatic. I wonder what IS has to gain from exposing this to the World? I mean when America bombs the crap out of a wedding party in Yemen or Somalia, they don't show the limbless dead babies and severed heads lying around the craters for the World to see. Still, maybe some people, particularly those that have interests in the region because that is where their families are, HAVE seen these video's and photo's. Maybe THIS is the reason so many "Westerners'" have become "self-radicalized".

This is known as "blowback". It is my opinion, and my opinion doesn't count much anymore in America because I have no well-funded PAC or corporate sponsorship, that you can't run willy-nilly around the Middle East, propping up genocidal governments like the one in Israel and repressive ones like in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, bombing Libya back to the stone age and treating your own Muslim citizen's like lepers without having something bad happening to you.

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