Virtuous violence is upon us

by Paul Craig Roberts

LewRockwell.Com

11/19/04

[F]or Bush administration partisans, war crimes are no longer something of which to be ashamed. Reflecting the neoconservative mindset that America's monopoly on virtue justifies any and all US actions, Fox 'News' talking heads and their Republican Party and retired military guests have arrogantly defended the marine who murdered the wounded Iraqi prisoner. Iraqi insurgents are condemned for deaths that they inflict on civilians. But when American troops fire indiscriminately upon civilians and US missile and bombing attacks kill Iraqis in their homes, the deaths are dismissed as 'collateral damage.' This double standard is a further indication that Americans have come to the belief that US ends justify any means...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp