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Why is the US government so hypocritical?
I mean, just look at it, I will list reasons why the government is a bunch of Hypocrits:
1. Bombing
Dresden
Hanoi
Baghdad
Tripoli
Even Hiroshama and Nagasaki (These two locations killed into the hundreds of thousands.)
What do all these places have in common? THEY WERE ALL BOMBED BY THE US GOVERNMENT.
But now, if someone else were to do the same, it automatically becomes the act of evil people.
2. Iraq,Iran,Syria
"Hypocrisy when it comes to the death of children? In Oklahoma City, it was family convenience that explained the presence of a day-care center placed between street level and the law enforcement agencies which occupied the upper floors of the building. Yet, when discussion shifts to Iraq, any day-care center in a government building instantly becomes "a shield." Think about it.
(Actually, there is a difference here. The administration has admitted to knowledge of the presence of children in or near Iraqi government buildings, yet they still proceed with their plans to bomb —saying that they cannot be held responsible if children die. There is no such proof, however, that knowledge of the presence of children existed in relation to the Oklahoma City bombing.)
When considering morality and "mens rea" [criminal intent], in light of these facts, I ask: Who are the true barbarians? ...
I find it ironic, to say the least, that one of the aircraft used to drop such a bomb on Iraq is dubbed "The Spirit of Oklahoma." This leads me to a final, and unspoken, moral hypocrisy regarding the use of weapons of mass destruction.
When a U.S. plane or cruise missile is used to bring destruction to a foreign people, this nation rewards the bombers with applause and praise. What a convenient way to absolve these killers of any responsibility for the destruction they leave in their wake.
Unfortunately, the morality of killing is not so superficial. The truth is, the use of a truck, a plane or a missile for the delivery of a weapon of mass destruction does not alter the nature of the act itself.
These are weapons of mass destruction — and the method of delivery matters little to those on the receiving end of such weapons.
Whether you wish to admit it or not, when you approve, morally, of the bombing of foreign targets by the U.S. military, you are approving of acts morally equivalent to the bombing in Oklahoma City ..."
~ Timothy McVeigh,
3, Lets go to why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, because the US cut off its Oil. Imagine now, if a country cut off what you use to feul your cars and homes.
So, compare this to Iran, who one or two years ago threatened to cut off oil going through the Strait of Hormuz, this would cut off US oil supply.
Think now to yourself, would you support a bombing of Iran if they cut off our oil, what fuels our country?
Because, if you would, then you support the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
So prehaps, should America sit down and think about what it has done? How hypocritical the government is?
3 Answers
- Prophet Of DoomLv 58 years ago
Not very hypocritical at all.
Did you intend to tell everyone here that you cannot understand the difference between the aggressor in a war vs. the defender?
I wouldn't admit to such a moral equivalency.
The places you mention? In wars where we were defending. You left that OUT.
The center bombed in Oklahoma City wasn't being used as a military base.
Muslims have been caught deliberately CHOOSING such places for setting up military action.
You leave that OUT.
At no time can we afford to let the use of children as human shields, as common as it is in Muslim practice, stop us, because the result of that is something even more barbaric - we encourage them to do it more.
But you leave that OUT.
Who are the real barbarians? Islam.
Iraq attacked our ally, Kuwait. There was only ONE Gulf War and a decade long cease-fire (that's according to the official records and the history that we lived through, some of us more than apologists like we see on this site way too often).
Timothy McVeigh is NOT the judge of morality.
That you quote him does not surprise me.
Japan? Then you buy oil ELSEWHERE. We didn't OWE Japan oil while it was waging an aggressive war in China.
Compare to Iran? We still haven't attacked Iran and the blockade they threaten cuts off oil from MULTIPLE countries to other countries, something Iran has NO RIGHT to do.
Again, you leave that OUT.
What an incredibly cheap, arrogant and ignorant rant disguised as a question.
- ?Lv 78 years ago
The main reason is that the US believes it is exceptional, the laws that govern other countries do not apply to the United States and that no one is going to push around the US government. Its a law unto itself. It preaches about morality and ethics to other countries but itself is one of the least moral and ethical governments when ranked with other countries.
You may be interested to know that US is not a signatory to the World Court in the Hague, which tries war criminals. Reason being that if it was it would mean US officials could be arrested and tried for war crimes, or that US military personnel could be handed over and tried for war atrocities. They bleat about war crimes etc but they have locked up men in Guantanamo for 13 years who in fact have not been charged with a crime and they have been tortured, starved and waterboarded.
PS Timothy McVeigh is a coward. he planted a bomb in a federal building which killed 168 people in a very gruesome and violent way. about 30-40 of the victims were kindergarten children. Why are you giving this guy free publicity?
- Anonymous8 years ago
Why can't you form a coherent hypothesis?