I find interesting how from the day the war in Iraq started, the US has been portrayed as an evil, heartless empire bent on the conquest of the world, killing millions on innocent people in airstrikes, with guns and tanks. Our horrible soldiers killed innocent Iraqis without a care while the insurgents were seen as the victims and heroes by our own Media. The reality is that our soldiers have literally been fighting with their hands tied behind their backs trying to identify the insurgents from the innocent bystanders, spending millions trying to create weapons that would only target small rooms rather than the whole building, doing everything within their powers to avoid civilian causualties. And while they are not always successful, we lose to many soldiers due to this "stepping on broken" glass startegy our morals force us to use. Shoot first, ask questions later (or make demands afterwards) is left for the enemy, an enemy who does not care who gets caught in a car bomb (women, children, innocent bystanders) just to kill 1 or 2 US soldiers or Iraqi authorities or simply a member of an opposing faction, even if the women, children and innocent bystanders are from their own faction. But the US is the evil one.
Well now we have Russia and Georgia in an all out battle for a piece of land and thousands of innocent civilians are being targeted on purpose. Were are the cries? Where are the fingers pointing? Where are the screams from those who think this is inhumane, criminal, unfair, horrifying?
Want a good reason to see things this way? Hows about this?
From Foxnews.com
Link"Russia sent hundreds of
tanks and troops into the separatist province of South Ossetia and
bombed Georgian towns Saturday in a major escalation of the conflict
that has left scores of civilians dead and wounded."
"Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters in Moscow that some 1,500 people have been killed, with the death toll rising Saturday."
"The figure could not be
independently confirmed, but witnesses who fled the fighting said
hundreds of civilians had probably died. They said most of the
provincial capital, Tskhinvali, was in ruins, with bodies lying
everywhere."
"The air and artillery
bombardment left the provincial capital without water, food,
electricity and gas. Horrified civilians crawled out of the basements
into the streets as fighting eased, looking for supplies."
Innocent people are dying, for no reason, yet no cries of horror and anger can be heard. Probably because everyone is to busy watching the Olympics and their "most spectacular opening ceremony in Olympic history" (as per another Foxnews.com report on US citizens being attacked and killed in China) being hosted by one of the worlds worst human right offends today, China. And guess what, chances are, it will, again, be up to the evil empire known as the USA to save the day and stop the violence. How? Probably by sacrificing our own soldiers to save the lives of strangers, strangers who probably don't even like us. What a great country huh? And here I thought we were the bad guys.