Morally Responsible ???

Senator Mitch McConnell claims Trump is "practically and morally responsible" for provoking one of the lamest "insurrections" in world history.

Dear Mitch - Please tell me who is morally responsible for these crimes against humanity:

• firebombing of Dresden
• atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• starving Iraq's children
• destroying Iraq
• destroying Libya
• destroying Syria
• starving Yemen's children

The US government (all branches) is morally and legally responsible for some of the worst atrocities in modern times. So why aren't you and your comrades being held responsible? Maybe this is why:

The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.

Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it.

It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.

I put to you that the United States is without doubt the greatest show on the road. Brutal, indifferent, scornful and ruthless it may be but it is also very clever. As a salesman it is out on its own and its most saleable commodity is self love. It’s a winner. Listen to all American presidents on television say the words, ‘the American people’, as in the sentence, ‘I say to the American people it is time to pray and to defend the rights of the American people and I ask the American people to trust their president in the action he is about to take on behalf of the American people.’

It’s a scintillating stratagem. Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay.

Source - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/25621-harold-pinter-nobel-lecture-2005/

I urge you to read Pinter's Nobel lecture in full. It isn't often you get to hear the truth about who we are and what our government has been doing.

Almost 55 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. uttered this warning:

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

We spend even more today on "defense" than we did in his day. And we're no longer approaching spiritual death; we achieved it long ago.

The second impeachment of Donald Trump may appear to be an upwelling of outrage at government misdeeds, but that interpretation would be a mistake. It's merely a papering over of the rot. The swamp has not been drained, and now it probably never will be.

So when you talk about "responsibility", point the finger at yourself. You say this is a "democracy", right? That means we're all responsible. Start acting like it.