Posts Tagged ‘Donald Rumsfeld’

Parable of the Bad Samaritan: Reflections on War and Collateral Damage Control

Published on ZNet, www.zmag.org, 4/16/03 It appears as if contributions are pouring in from around the world, especially the U.S. and Great Britain, to help pay for the many surgeries needed by the Iraqi boy being called (in the Western media at least), “little Ali.” Putting aside the patronizing namesake given him by his current […]

Of Lies, Liberation and American Self-Delusion: Reflections on the Dangers of National Self-Love

Published on ZNet, www.zmag.org, 3/27/03 Iraqis must think the American definition of liberation a strange one. First, we destroy all of the key government buildings that we can find in a search for Saddam Hussein. Then we relentlessly attack the Iraqi military, which of course counts among its troops, members of tens of thousands of […]

The Moral Calculus of Killing: Precision Bombing and the American Definition of Innocence

Published on ZNet, www.zmag.org, 3/24/03 Imagine if you will that an enemy nation — for the sake of argument, let’s say North Korea, or China — were to attack the United States. And let’s say they launched missiles and dropped bombs specifically on Washington D.C., having targeted the White House, Capitol Building, and Pentagon, and […]