I would like to mirror a comment on my previous blog entry so that people in the US would at least see how their “democratic” decisions are having serious consequences on non-US peoples lives.
I wouldn’t agree if the commenter meant that US citizens are indeed fully responsible. I would, however, agree if he meant that US citizen are at least partially responsible for what is the result of US foreign policy.
It’s easy to throw the guilt at your government. But you are the people who should protest; You are the people who shouldn’t have voted for this government; You are the people that, while very few non-US people on this planet believed that it was possible, reelected this absurd current US government; You are the parents, brothers and sisters of soldiers that agree to fight absurd wars on behalf of their equally absurd governments; And YOU mister US-solder, are the person who pulls the trigger. In this case it where the Israel proxy soldiers pulling that trigger. I don’t see a significant difference. Both types of soldiers are murderers. Both get or got their highest orders from US politicians (don’t tell us the US had nothing to do with it, we are not idiots).
The comment:
As a Lebanese and an Arab having to deal daily with the results of the US foreign policy, I totally appreciate and salute your stance.
However, I feel that the US citizens (GNOMErs or otherwise) are responsible for the US foreign policy killing hundreds of thousands of people. They are responsible in the sense that they brought the current or previous governments to power and they have the power to change or protest their government’s actions since they live in a so called democracy.