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thenewgreen  ·  4516 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Extremism normalized (Salon)
    Imagine the outcry if (say) Germany started killing foreigners on foreign soil. But for some reason it's OK for America to do exactly the same thing?
b_b, made a similar point a while back regarding how braggadocios we are regarding the killing of high ranking Al Qaida members. "We shot and killed the #2 man in the terrorist network", is akin to them saying they shot and killed our VP. To them we are the terrorist network. Point being, there is a complete lack of civility when reporting/talking about these things. It's one thing to kill with impunity, it's another thing all together to then brag about it.