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> apparently safe enough for the U.S. to consider Thailand among its staunchest asian allies for the past several decades Maybe the US found a friend, given th
by vacri 10y ago
> apparently safe enough for the U.S. to consider Thailand among its staunchest asian allies for the past several decades
Maybe the US found a friend, given that its military also killed college students in the same era; students using their democratic right to protest?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
- lobf 10y agoC'mon man, do you really think the Kent State shootings are at all comparable to the '76 massacre? Look at the photos...
- vacri 10y agoI'm coming from a country where the military don't fire on the population at all, and are never called in to keep the peace... so the comparison is not so far different as you might think. Even if our military were called in to keep the peace, firing into the air to scare protesters (a college student protest at that!) into submission is something that would be abhorrent here. So yes, Kent State was a mistake born from confusion, but there's still similarities in using the military and live rounds to control the population. Or perhaps a different moral standpoint: in the same era, look at how the US military treated the very Vietnamese civilians that they were explicitly there to protect. I'm not saying the US is an autocratic junta, I'm just saying the glass houses/stones thing - how can the US be a staunch ally of such a place? Well, because the US is often A-OK with those kind of actions.