It’s something that people condemning the razing of cultures by ISIS are suddenly champing at the bit to obliterate Iran’s.
War is war.
War crimes are war crimes.
War is war.
War crimes are war crimes.
The myth of American exceptionalism, that we are the arbiters of right and wrong and God’s chosen nation, and by extension that we cannot be fascist, is unbelievably dangerous. Our history shows a penchant for cruelty and is littered with war crimes.
Now, on the razor’s edge of war, we have to remember that conflict enables fascism. It hides senseless violence. We are capable of great wrongs and we have to recognize that lest we continue committing great wrongs.
