When we look at the Muslim issue, understand that we have targeted innocent Muslim civilians for decades and without relent or remorse. We had the Highway of Death in 1991 where U. S. Veterans have testified to having followed orders to gun down every last woman and child as they got off of a school bus on a road.
We never have apologized for it and they rightly interpret our attitude towards Muslim lives as indifferent at best. And that is putting our continuous actions and attitudes in the most mild and overly innocent light humanly possible.
The whole 1991 war was with a government we supported for nearly 30 years from 1963 to 1990.
And look at the background details that led to the war that killed 100,000 Muslim Iraqi's.
From an article in the April 22,2017 New York Times.
quote:
Charles A. Duelfer, a senior State Department official during Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent American intervention, was an author of a study with Stephen Benedict Dyson, a political scientist, on how the United States and Iraq had stumbled into conflict.
The war, they found, was largely a result of miscommunication. Saddam Hussein, Iraq's leader, believed he had signaled his intention to invade Kuwait and received no red light from the United States, which he considered a partner. The Americans misread his signals, as well as the calculus, clear in retrospect, that led him into Kuwait.
Mr. Duelfer and Mr. Dyson wrote that the episode highlighted the difficulty of signaling across nations as well as the stakes of getting it wrong, which they conclude happens frequently and sometimes with catastrophic consequences.
I still remember the historic 1992 Presidential election debate with Ross Perot and how he scolded his fellow conservative Republican President Bush over our ambassador giving Hussein the green light to invade Kuwait. Perot is a right wing militaristic Republican who always supports Republicans ( like G W Bush in 2000 and Romney after ).
We didn't cease the killings and "misunderstandings " for decades at least.
A soldier was discharged for refusing to kill a little Iraqi girl with a soccer ball last decade. He refused the "if it moves, it's a target " command.
Let us look in the mirror for once as Americans and perhaps the revolutionary concept (for the United States standards anyway ) of contrition and repentance will work wonders.
Let's try it.
Just once.
Might be an idea.
Really.
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