The whole disaster in Afghanistan, from start to finish, comes from not accepting that an Afghan life has the same value as as an American life, even though that belief is foundational to the Christian faith professed by so many promoters of our war there.
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The long-term plan for Afghanistan (according to Nancy Pelosi's office) is to continue a campaign of extrajudicial killing there using remotely piloted aircraft. That policy can only exist if we persist in the belief that American lives are inherently more worthy and precious.pic.twitter.com/HeX9NScX62
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Amid all the Twitter battle over how to evaluate the American imperial project in Afghanistan, there is still no discussion of this fairly new but apparently permanent policy of summary execution by drone, what it means to the countries we inflict it on, and who it turns us into.
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The American military has made war incredibly safe for US soldiers, who are now used to fighting from a position of overwhelming strength. The idea of losing 100 soldiers or more in a day (like happened in Vietnam) is simply inconceivable. We don't bear the cost of our wars.
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Instead, the death of US soldiers in wartime becomes a shocking aberration, a reason to expand the scope of our wars instead of the best argument against entering them. The only way out of this moral flytrap is to start treating civilian deaths as also meaningful, also shocking.
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Since this era of permanent US warfare against civilian populations started, there has not been a single American election where citizens could vote on the issue, though some of us were foolish enough to think it was on the ballot in 2008. It's not up for debate now, either.
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Can we talk about Olympics medal tables now?
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