It was bullshit then, and it’s still bullshit now. A more
accurate version would have read:
Nothing justifies the killing of innocent people, except …
- the institution of slavery
- the imposition of economic sanctions
- a woman’s right to choose
- the right to keep and bear arms
- following proper police procedure
- military necessity
- national security
- the moral imperative of free trade
- the culture of “to win and to have”
- the war on terror
- the false gospel of globalization
- the horrible threat of religious totalitarianism
Feel free to add your own favorite exceptions to the list. As
you do, keep in mind the three basic justifications for America’s murders:
- The dead were not “innocent”, or
- The dead were not “people”, or
- We didn’t kill them (someone else did, they killed themselves, or they were killed by a concept or an institution).
D.H. Lawrence once observed, “The essential American soul is hard,
isolate, stoic, and a killer.”
He didn’t know the half of it.
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