Let Me Get This Straight
November 20, 2018
A state leader orders the killing of one man and everyone is outraged. But if a state leader orders the killing of thousands in Yemen (Saudi leader) or drone strikes half way around the world (American leader), then most people simply yawn. Why do Americans think we should “do something” about the Saudi dictator because he had one journalist killed but not “do something” because he had thousands killed in Yemen? Something is wrong with this kind of thinking.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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