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Thread #102635   Message #2083326
Posted By: CarolC
21-Jun-07 - 03:49 PM
Thread Name: Salman Rushdie - Outrage.
Subject: RE: Salman Rushdie - Outrage.
Care to look at the numbers of civilians killed by the US et al vs the number killed by the Iraqis and foreign "resistance" fighters?

They have us beat by a factor of 4 or 5.



All of them are dead as a direct result of the forgeign policy of the US and the UK.


And YOU seem to think that we should not do anything about that- just let them die, like in Cambodia, Bosnia, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan... Can't do anything that might get them upset- as long as they are only killing other inferior natives we should not get involved or risk any far more valuable Western lives- After all, WE are worth far more than any of them are in the scheme of things...

In most of these cases it was Western imperialism that set up the conditions that lead to the people being killed. In Cambodia, it was US bombing of that country that destroyed its civil infrastructure, leading to the rise of Pol Pot. In Rwanda, it was Belgium pitting one ethnic group against the other as a part of the enforcement of its colonialist agendas (and killing obscene numbers of Hutus in the process), in Sudan, the West hypocritically points the finger at "Arabs" for genocide of the farmers, all the while assisting the rebels in their own slaughter of the farmers, because the West has the same objective as the "Arabs", ie: get the farmers off their land and take the oil. Western imperialism is responsible for, or at the very least has contributed to the vast majority of the situations you have listed, beardedbruce.