Collateral damage
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Bombing civilians from the air is not yet a century old as a military strategy, and has never yet achieved its implicit aim of destroying a society’s will to resist. Yet the world has come to regard air power as the normal way of waging war, and not as the ineffective barbarity it really is.
By Tom Engelhardt
Bombing civilians from the air is not yet a century old as a military strategy, and has never yet achieved its implicit aim of destroying a society’s will to resist. Yet the world has come to regard air power as the normal way of waging war, and not as the ineffective barbarity it really is.
By Tom Engelhardt
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Barbarism seems an obvious enough category. Ordinarily in our world, the barbarians are them. They act in ways that seem unimaginably primitive and brutal to us. They kidnap or capture someone, American or Iraqi, and cut off his head. Now, isn’t that the definition of barbaric? Who does that any more? The eighth century, or maybe the word “medieval” - anyway, some brutal past time - comes to mind immediately, and to the mass mind of our media even faster. More.......
Barbarism seems an obvious enough category. Ordinarily in our world, the barbarians are them. They act in ways that seem unimaginably primitive and brutal to us. They kidnap or capture someone, American or Iraqi, and cut off his head. Now, isn’t that the definition of barbaric? Who does that any more? The eighth century, or maybe the word “medieval” - anyway, some brutal past time - comes to mind immediately, and to the mass mind of our media even faster. More.......
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