Unimaginable headline: Terrorist Attack Kills 103 in Kabul; American Soldiers Among The Dead
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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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