Excerpt from a piece I wrote for the online journal Swans.com:
It's long past time that we stopped referring to our wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, and now Israel's war against Lebanon, in dispassionate terms involving differing views of geopolitics, strategic interests, mistaken foreign policy, rights of self defense, etc.
We are talking about crimes against decency, crimes against humanity. We are talking about war crimes.
And we are talking about evil.
People are being slaughtered -- civilians, children. They are not combatants, not soldiers. They are not, in that most obscene phrase so readily accepted by the corporate media, "collateral damage." They are innocents being blown apart, blinded, burned, paralyzed, hideously deformed, living and dying in agony.
We are talking about evil.
The rest of my piece can be found at:
http://www.swans.com/library/art12/rdeck067.html