Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Out Of Sight Out Of Mind

















The news is always depressing thanks in large measure to an annoying daily continuance of politics and religion, but some stories make you want to make it all stop now.
Israel may have misused cluster bombs? How do you properly use an indiscriminate weapon that can kill anyone within an area of several football fields? Why would the U.S. sell such weapons to a country that is known to fight rock throwers with tanks?
It's immoral obviously to use such weapons in populated areas.

If Bush asked any American on the street if they would like to sell cluster bombs to any country, after finding out what they do, anyone on the street would of course say 'God no", not in my name.
There are over 1 million unexploded cluster munitions now scattered across Lebanon. 30 people have been killed lately by them. Isn't it more accurate to say murdered by them?

A U.S. cluster bomb typically holds 670 tennis ball sized bomblets each containing 300 metal fragments for a total of 200,000 metal fragments exploding in an area of 2 football fields. Just a higher level of terror technology. For variety there's also napalm or phosphorous. My view is if you sell weapons like this you are equally responsible for their use or misuse, legally and morally.

The U.S. has left a far bigger lethal mess across Iraq that will kill for generations.
The more I ponder these horrors the more I lose the distinction between terrorists over there and terrorists on our side. Doesn't everyone intuitively understand the difference between defending yourself legitimately and inflicting horror and terror on a populace for political control?

The painting is Banksy putting a pink ribbon on a blackhawk killing machine because we don't want to see the real horror it creates.
We'd only have to see one child blown up by a cluster bomb to say this must stop now, never again.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting graphic, good post.

There are some people that I sometimes wonder if it would even faze them if they saw a small Iraqi child blown to bits. Collateral damage. Read some of the comments at SDA, those people really don't even think of arabs as human. It's disgusting.

Q said...

The news has not shown enough graphics of what's happening to Iraq and Americans who are casualties there.

Alison said...

Banksy!
Now that's an unusual coincidence.

I wish there was some way to stop Canada Pension Funds, our own money!, being invested in this sort of evil.