1987 ~♀ ~ French-Tunisian caught in the quagmire of adulescence. fangirling on this and that; sometimes at the same time. fickle thing, always waiting for the next new shining thing to catch my interest.
passing by
"It is a scandal in contemporary international law, don’t forget,
that while “wanton destruction of towns, cities and villages” is a
war crime of long standing, the bombing of cities from airplanes
goes not only unpunished but virtually unaccused. Air bombardment
is state terrorism, the terrorism of the rich. It has burned up
and blasted apart more innocents in the past six decades than have
all the antistate terrorists who ever lived. Something has
benumbed our consciousness against this reality. In the United
States we would not consider for the presidency a man who had once
thrown a bomb into a crowded restaurant, but we are happy to elect
a man who once dropped bombs from airplanes that destroyed not
only restaurants but the buildings that contained them and the
neighborhoods that surrounded them. I went to Iraq after the Gulf
war and saw for myself what the bombs did; “wanton destruction” is
just the term for it."
—
C. Douglas Lummis, political scientist, The Nation, September 26, 1994, p.304
