Do Non-French War Deaths Matter? – Veterans Today

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By David Swanson,

We are all France. Apparently. Though we are never all Lebanon or Syria or Iraq for some reason. Or a long, long list of additional places.

We are led to believe that U.S. wars are not tolerated and cheered because of the color or culture of the people being bombed and occupied. But let a relatively tiny number of people be murdered in a white, Christian, Western-European land, with a pro-war government, and suddenly sympathy is the order of the day.

“This is not just an attack on the French people, it is an attack on human decency and all things that we hold dear,” says U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham. I’m not sure I hold ALL the same things dear as the senator, but for the most part I think he’s exactly right and that sympathy damn well ought to be the order of the day following a horrific mass killing in France.

I just think the same should apply to everywhere else on earth as well. The majority of deaths in all recent wars are civilian. The majority of civilians are not hard to sympathize with once superficial barriers are overcome. Yet, the U.S. media never seems to declare deaths in Yemen or Pakistan or Palestine to be attacks on our common humanity.

I included “pro-war government” as a qualification above, because I can recall a time, way back in 2003, when I was the one shouting “We are all France,” and pro-war advocates in the United States were demonizing France for its refusal to support a looming and guaranteed to be catastrophic and counterproductive U.S. war. France sympathized with U.S. deaths on 911, but counseled sanity, decency, and honesty in response. The U.S. told France to go to hell and renamed french fries in Congressional office buildings.

Now, 14 years into a global war on terror that reliably produces more terror, France is an enthusiastic invader, plunderer, bomber, and propagator of hateful bigotry. France also sells billions of dollars of weaponry to lovely little bastions of equality and liberty like Saudi Arabia, carefully ignoring Saudis’ funding of anti-Western terrorist groups.

When U.S. militarism failed to prevent 911, I actually thought that would mean reduced militarism. When a Russian plane was recently blown up, I think I imagined for a split second that Russia would learn its lesson and stop repeating U.S. mistakes. When people were just killed in France, I didn’t have any time to fantasize about France coming to its senses, because a “socialist” president was already doing his Dubya-on-the-rubble imitation:

“To all those who have seen these awful things,” said François Hollande, “I want to say we are going to lead a war which will be pitiless. Because when terrorists are capable of committing such atrocities they must be certain that they are facing a determined France, a united France, a France that is together and does not let itself be moved, even if today we express infinite sorrow.”

The video doesn’t look like Bush, and the French word combat does not necessarily mean war just because the Washington Post says it does. It can mean fight in some other sense. But what other sense exactly, I’m not sure. Prosecuting anyone responsible would of course make perfect sense, but a criminal justice system ought not to be pitiless. It’s a war that ought to be pitiless. And it’s a war that will guarantee more attacks. And it’s a war that France has begun.

“It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners,” said Albert Camus.

Please go back to thinking, France.

We do love you and wish you well and are deeply sorry for U.S. influence against your better tendencies.

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3 Responses to “Do Non-French War Deaths Matter?









  1.  The late Israel Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, used to say “NON-JEWS are DONKEYS, Created to Serve Jews”

     Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro’s book__ The King’s Torah “JEWS CAN KILL NON-JEWS INCLUDING CHILDREN”









  2. NO! non-french war deaths DO NOT MATTER to Americans because Americans pledge allegiance to their flag. And thus they follow state propaganda and agenda! (same for most countries) And since state propaganda is run by Zionists, then they simply cannot empathize with what is sold to them as monkeys, animals, freaks, terrorists or whatever pathetic noun one can come up with.

    You see the problem is allegiance which shuts down thinking.

    – So ISRAELI gets stabbed? How dare they!
    – 500 children in Gaza murdered? Those snakes deserved it!
    – French people (allies) get bombed? Lets all go to war!
    – Car bomb explodes killing hundreds in Beirut? Who freakin cares!

    And that’s the problem

    The solution? We need to retrain everyone around the world to PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND EARTH and EVERY HUMAN ON IT.

    Then when a violent act is made against anyone, we can condemn it without the immature Star Wars Good and Evil non-sense!

    The world is NOT black, white, evil, or good….it’s just us! All of us! Unfortunately, MERICA stands by the flag instead of the brain!









    • Well said. I was disgusted to hear Obama say the Paris attack was “an attack on all humanity” when the people on the Russian jet that went down, and the people who got bombed in Beirut, earned no such recognition. Are fans of death metal more human than Russian vacationers? Are Lebanese civilians less human than French football fans?

      But how humanity can reach the point where we pledge allegiance to humanity, earth, and all the living things upon it without eliminating two of the most hate filled tomes ever written, the Talmud and the OT, is beyond me.




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