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Because he's a journalist who's being unjustly pursued for revealing the US government's dirty secrets. Secrets such as: American helicopter pilots gunned down

Because he's a journalist who's being unjustly pursued for revealing the US government's dirty secrets. Secrets such as: American helicopter pilots gunned down two Reuters journalists in Iraq, and then killed a random civilian who came across and tried to rescue one of the wounded journalists. The pilots shot up a van with kids in the process (thank God the kids survived, though they lost their father), and then joked and laughed about it. The military covered it up. The US is trying to set the precedent that if you air our dirty laundry, we can go after you, wherever you are in the world. Not in the US? No problem. Not an American? No problem.

zirgs 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that's not nearly the worst thing the US military has done. Collateral damage happens in every war.
- vasac 3y ago
  Collateral damage is one thing, brutal execution is something else.
- trough 3y ago
  You are right that this is probably not the worst thing they did. I’m absolutely sure the US armed forces are a highly sought playground for psychopaths and people with sadistic tendencies. Furthermore military tends to attract people with a predisposition for authoritarian and/or facist mindset. We saw the snapshots of unspeakable torture - made by people that were so entertained by the atrocities that they just had to make commemorative pictures of it. But collateral damage is something else: if I blow up a house with a terrorist leader in it, weil the debris kill a bystander? It happens in every war and it’s the main reason why a ‘just war’ still can’t be fought without tainting conscience.
  - DiogenesKynikos 3y ago
    > the main reason why a ‘just war’ still can’t be fought without tainting conscience. Not to mention a completely unnecessary war sold using lies, and launched in violation of international law (not in self-defense, no UN Security Council authorization).
2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
> Because he's a journalist I disagree. Maybe a court should decide?

zirgs 3y ago

I'm pretty sure that's not nearly the worst thing the US military has done. Collateral damage happens in every war.

vasac 3y ago
Collateral damage is one thing, brutal execution is something else.
trough 3y ago
You are right that this is probably not the worst thing they did. I’m absolutely sure the US armed forces are a highly sought playground for psychopaths and people with sadistic tendencies. Furthermore military tends to attract people with a predisposition for authoritarian and/or facist mindset. We saw the snapshots of unspeakable torture - made by people that were so entertained by the atrocities that they just had to make commemorative pictures of it. But collateral damage is something else: if I blow up a house with a terrorist leader in it, weil the debris kill a bystander? It happens in every war and it’s the main reason why a ‘just war’ still can’t be fought without tainting conscience.
- DiogenesKynikos 3y ago
  > the main reason why a ‘just war’ still can’t be fought without tainting conscience. Not to mention a completely unnecessary war sold using lies, and launched in violation of international law (not in self-defense, no UN Security Council authorization).

2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago

> Because he's a journalist I disagree. Maybe a court should decide?