A few hard truths:
- There will be no refuge for the family from the state, without a state-guaranteed return to the family wage.
- There will be no end to the evils of the ‘throwaway culture’, without an end to an economy that treats workers as expendable, replaceable cogs.
- There will be no recognition of the humanity of the unborn, without a deeper cognisance of the environmental inheritance we leave to future generations.
- There will be no security for the common American, as long as we keep producing and paying for the bombs that rain down death in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Somalia.
- ‘Rape culture’ will continue as long as porn goes uncensored and institutional abuse of poor, trafficked and enslaved women falls under the abominable, ‘legal’ euphemism of ‘sex work’.
- The more power we give to the government to torture and abuse prisoners in the name of national security, the more empowered it will be to lie to and mislead us.
This will all remain equally true under Trump, as it has under Obama.
Some good points there, though I don't think its American bombs being dropped on Aleppo.
ReplyDeleteAmerica has, by our government's own admission, bombed Deir Ezzor (which has had the effect of prolonging the conflict).
ReplyDeleteAnd Russians bombing Aleppo is not going to prolong the conflict?
DeleteTell you what, I won't mention Russian bombs again if you don't mention American or British bombs again.
First, speaking as a localist and as a citizen of America: because I'm not a Russian, Russian bombs aren't my primary moral concern.
DeleteSecond, speaking as a realist: supporting and defending the only viable state authority in that geographical area (however objectionable) carries a vastly different moral weight, in objective terms, than working to undermine the same.
Bombing Aleppo will shorten the conflict and result in a lesser loss of life over time *because the rebels in Aleppo, and elsewhere, are Salafists, whose rule over Syria would be worse, in any modal world, than the real one in which Assad retains control over the country.*
ReplyDelete