Homeland Cruelty

 

Maybe you heard that the U.S. recently bombed a wedding in a small town in Iran, killing four and injuring 68 celebrants.

There were no legitimate military targets nearby and the missile used had been advertised as the “most accurate” in the U.S. arsenal.

So it had to have been intentional. This is cruelty at a very high level.

 

Meanwhile, The U.S. government seems to be treating its own inhabitants with increasing cruelty.

Here are just a few examples, which probably are not even necessary, since we all know it is happening and can all cite our own examples:

n In the month just passed, federal immigration agents arrested some 50,000 people, a new monthly record. The jails they are held in are basically harsh concentration camps.

n The U.S. is deporting thousands of people to countries those people are entirely unfamiliar with.

n Some 27 million Americans have no health care coverage at all, yet the Congress and Executive Branch does nothing about it.

n Add your own example here.

 

It occurs to me that this increasing cruelty at home is an inevitable consequence of U.S. cruelty abroad. Here are a few more recent examples of that, if anyone needs any more:

-       A recent series of U.S. air strikes in Somalia – Somalia! -- “killed at least 12 people, including eight children and a pregnant woman, according to an investigation by The Guardian.” 

 

-       The Trump crime syndicate has conducted 207 airstrikes on Somalia – Somalia!-- since January 2024, a record pace. During the same time, humanitarian U.S. aid to the country has been cut, even though 21 percent of its people face “acute hunger and malnutrition.”

 

 

-       The U.S.’s spearhead of power in the Middle East, Israel, isn’ just continuing to murder several Palestinian civilians every day. It is also, according to Doctors Without Borders,  “ blocking crucial supplies from entering Gaza. These supplies would otherwise “keep hospital generators, ambulances, water pumps and water trucks running.”

 This is, they say, “a policy of attrition by design.”

 

 

 

 

The U.S. cruelty abroad is, of course, nothing new. The Empire has long installed and protected psychopathic regimes in dozens of countries. And it has directly killed millions of civilians in just as many countries by air strikes.

But the cruelty at home seems to be gaining momentum, as if trying to catch up.

The wonder is that this cruelty has not oozed its way into domestic policies any faster than it has.

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