LankaWeb – Another Outrage – Another Apology

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 Airborne division were featured posing with the mangled remains of dead Afghans. But guess what? There was no ‘shock and awe’. It seems like the world has been anesthetized with the empire’s massive propaganda machinery that has worked round the clock to dehumanise its victims. Like the empire’s previous victims in Vietnam or Korea or Kampuchea or the many Latin American countries, the killing of Afghans or for that matter the Pakistani’s, Palestinians or the Iraqi’s cause no revulsions in the world. It seems they were destined to die, as deserving victims, at Obama’s hands like as if in accordance with some macabre scriptural prophecy.

The soldier (anonymous?) who provided the photos to The Los Angeles Times said he was doing so as proof of the ‘lack of discipline, leadership and security’ among Obama’s warriors and that he felt such a sad state of affairs might jeopardise the lives of his compatriots in Afghanistan and probably in other places where the poor Americans were laying down their lives in order to civilise the savages.  That was the ambit of his concern, not the needless loss of life of the hapless people the empire wants to civilise.

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