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http://www.salon.com/2012/05/08/us_attack_kills_5_afghan_kids/

To quote the author: 'The way in which the U.S. media ignores such events speaks volumes about how we perceive them.'

I decided to share this article because I think the author pretty much sums up the US media's attitude towards the Afghan conflict and Muslim nations.

Sometimes I wonder if US citizens ask themselves why some persons (bah, actually like half of the world lol) dislikes and hates his country so much

It's not really just the Afghan conflict and Muslim nations, it's pretty much their attitude towards every country not on America's friends list.

Things like spreading this shit through the entire globe:

while keeping their own "problems" as low profile as they possibly could:

USA waging psychological war on other countries? No way.

The world can be a shitty place.

That video that Mouhappai posted was pretty disturbing, especially when that girl was beaten and the security guards just stood there and did nothing.

I just kept thinking of Edmund burkes quote;


It seems they American people, in fact people around the world, will fight to keep thier right to download internet porn and films, but not to stop shit from happening, or help when it does.

Nope, most of us either don't care or know that these people are too ignorant to look at their own countries history.

dont blame the governments actions on the civilians, were not the ones making theses decisions, the ones that are are those evil monsters in the office and those brainwashed idiots in the army

I've heard that this is just a misconception, I've heard from severeal different sources that not as many people hate the US as we think.

However, I hate the US just as much as I hate the military here. It's pointless and we're going to kill ourselves/everybody with our selfishness

Thats sad


but seriously guys some people the middle east kills people a lot anyways so its not exactly a one sided thing. Its definitely more than 5 daily..

People get killed in war. What else is new.

US media in a nutshell, they throw you what they want. Props to all americans with a bit of self-conscience *hi5*

Our mainstream news is mainly propaganda anyway. They don't show you that stuff because they want you to hate the Middle East, not sympathize with them.

Sure makes wartime easier for the politicians...

The whole world is evil and human beings are certainly evil. That will never change even though I wish it would. I guess that means I'm evil to an extent. Well, the Dalai Lama seems like a good guy (he even admits that he likes looking at girls from time to time.) What was the point of this post? Oh, well...

Bit of an exaggeration. They still mention things time to time. I dont think that its them trying to make you hate them but they do half ass stories all the time and dont really make any effort to mention other stuff because they dont think people care and dont think it sells well. They are just trying to draw in an audience

It's psychology 101, you degrade your enemy to appear less then what they really are, so you can feel more comfortable in doing things that are less moral. Americans aren't killing men, women, and children. We are killing insurgents and terrorists.

Eh, this was just collateral damage though, pretty hard to prevent that (Except GTFO of A-stan of course). And it isn't made easier when you have no way of controlling the movement of civvies.
Good points in the article though, there's no doubt that the media plays a huge role in lulling the public into a feeling of false moral superiority.Derp. Define "evil".

Evil is the violation of, or intent to violate, some moral code. - from wiki

Then he asks you to define morality, and then moves on to further prove morality is a subjective thing, hence 'evil' does not exist except in the mind.

Derp


But, I always counter with ok, but if I cut you is that not a bad thing? Ok you may even enjoy it on a perverse level, but your body works to heal it and if it's bad you try to protect it from the elements etc.

I simple try to put forward the idea that evil is an act that is coherently an idea about purposefully causing someone else other than yourself pain, discomfort or ill health, and getting some satisfaction off that because of a perverted thought pattern in your head.

so war justifies mutilation of prisoner's genitals
pissing on and desecrating corpses
and rape?
idk what you are smoking