What about the need for 'meaningful gun control at the Pentagon?'
From high-tech rifles and automatic weapons to drones, long-range missiles and gravity bombs, the U.S. military's weaponry has inflicted carnage in numerous countries. How many people have been directly killed by the"War on Terror" violence? An average of 45,000 human beings each year—more than two-fifths of them innocent civilians—since the terror war began, asThe mindset of U.S.
Pointing out that the Saudi-led war and blockade on Yemen"has helped cause the deaths of nearly half a million people," ato Congress from 60 organizations in late April said that"the United States must cease supplying weapons, spare parts, maintenance services, and logistical support to Saudi Arabia."
How is it that countless anguished commentators and concerned individuals across the USA can express justified fury at gun marketers and gun-related murders when a mass shooting occurs inside U.S. borders, while remaining silent about the need for meaningful gun control at the Pentagon?—from use of U.S. military weapons don’t appear on American TV screens. Many lose their lives due to military operations that are unreported by U.S.
Whatever the causal mix might be—in whatever proportions of conscious or unconscious nationalism, jingoism, chauvinism, racism and flat-out eagerness to believe whatever comforting fairy tale is repeatedly told by media and government officials—the resulting concoction is a dire refusal to acknowledge key realities of U.S. society and foreign policy.
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