If Blinken intends to bomb Yemen into submission, we’ll see the USA concurrently mirroring Israel in the use of bombing to destroy the infrastructure of a targeted population. This approach to foreign policy would not exist if the US were not the world’s hegemon. If killing civilians for political purposes is the definition of terrorism, the US is far and away the biggest terrorist nation in modern history.
Destroying a country’s infrastructure causes untold harm and suffering. Massive bombing and its consequent effects have become the hallmark of US foreign policy going back to Kissenger’s bombing frenzy of populations in South East Asia, McNamara and Lemay’s firebombing of Tokyo, Truman’s nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The most prescient precedent for the US foreign policy of bombing is the bombing in 1937 of Guernica by Hitler and Mussolini. Bombing as foreign policy destroys the target population without taking on casualties when the target population does not have the capability to retaliate with bombing of its own.
Bombing as foreign policy will not lead to a future world of international peace and cooperation. It will lead to nuclear armageddon and the end of human existence as we know it.
If Blinken intends to bomb Yemen into submission, we’ll see the USA concurrently mirroring Israel in the use of bombing to destroy the infrastructure of a targeted population. This approach to foreign policy would not exist if the US were not the world’s hegemon. If killing civilians for political purposes is the definition of terrorism, the US is far and away the biggest terrorist nation in modern history.
Destroying a country’s infrastructure causes untold harm and suffering. Massive bombing and its consequent effects have become the hallmark of US foreign policy going back to Kissenger’s bombing frenzy of populations in South East Asia, McNamara and Lemay’s firebombing of Tokyo, Truman’s nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The most prescient precedent for the US foreign policy of bombing is the bombing in 1937 of Guernica by Hitler and Mussolini. Bombing as foreign policy destroys the target population without taking on casualties when the target population does not have the capability to retaliate with bombing of its own.
Bombing as foreign policy will not lead to a future world of international peace and cooperation. It will lead to nuclear armageddon and the end of human existence as we know it.
Well spoken Phil,
and Spot On.