{"id":6998,"date":"2012-03-12T09:53:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6998"},"modified":"2012-03-12T09:53:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:53:24","slug":"the-pattern-of-american-atrocities-in-wartime-who-are-the-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6998","title":{"rendered":"The pattern of American atrocities in wartime &#8211; Who are the Terrorists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kmBnvajSfWU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who Are the \u2018Terrorists\u2019?<\/strong><br \/>\nby Justin Raimondo, 12 March, 2012 &#8211; AntiWar.com<\/p>\n<p>In the early morning hours of March 11, a US soldier assigned to \u201cspecial ops\u201d in Afghanistan, stationed near Kandahar, went into a local village and gunned down 16 people \u2013 including nine women and three children. At least three others were wounded. He went from house to house, in the predawn darkness, systematically murdering people while they slept in their beds: he then doused them with a flammable liquid and set them ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>What is it about American troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan? From Abu Ghraib [.pdf] to the Mahmudiyah killings to the Hamdania murder of a crippled old man to the horrors of the Haditha massacre, it\u2019s been one atrocity after another (see here, here, and here).  More recently it was the \u201crogue\u201d team of killers that murdered Afghan civilians in the Maywand district for sport. Then it was US troops urinating on corpses, followed shortly afterward by the Koran-burning incident, the second such example of American contempt for the people they are supposed to be \u201cliberating.\u201d Now we have this, which \u2013 we\u2019re told \u2013 is the result of a US soldier having a \u201cbreakdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Was it a breakdown, or merely the logical extension of the soldier\u2019s training and inclination, that caused him to go on a murderous rampage?  That hardly a month goes by without some kind of atrocity being committed should tell us something.<\/p>\n<p>What it tells me is that America is a depraved nation, a country where the very worst-of-the-worst flock to join the military, free to kill and maim and rape to their heart\u2019s content.<\/p>\n<p>And Rachel Maddow wants to give these guys a \u201cwelcome home\u201d \u201cvictory\u201d parade?<\/p>\n<p>Of course she does: even the \u201cliberals\u201d in our country are corrupted by the ugliness that pervades the national consciousness and poisons everything we do. \u201cHonor the troops\u201d is a given on the left as well as the right, because the above-mentioned atrocities are just \u201cisolated incidents,\u201d examples of soldiers who had \u201cbreakdowns\u201d and went \u201crogue.\u201d Their actions have nothing to do with our mission [.pdf], our mentality, or our decadent culture, which glorifies violence and disdains foreigners \u2013 especially if they\u2019re Muslims. Oh no: these are all anomalies, there\u2019s nothing to see here so please move along \u2026<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not buying it. There is something wrong \u2013 very wrong \u2013 here: a trend, a significant uptick in the savagery that is part and parcel of every war. During World War II, American atrocities were relatively few and far between, although no less reprehensible. As the American presence abroad grew more substantial, however, and the cold war heated up, such incidents increased in number, and took on a more horrific \u2013 and systematic \u2013 character. <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2012\/03\/11\/who-are-the-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D6998&amp;text=The+pattern+of+American+atrocities+in+wartime+-+Who+are+the+Terrorists%3F&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Are the \u2018Terrorists\u2019? by Justin Raimondo, 12 March, 2012 &#8211; AntiWar.com In the early morning hours of March 11, a US soldier assigned to \u201cspecial ops\u201d in Afghanistan, stationed near Kandahar, went into a local village and gunned down 16 people \u2013 including nine women and three children. At least three others were wounded. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6998#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2658],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6999,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions\/6999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}