DRONES IN YEMEN
One more reason to hate the
United States. “The CIA and the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Committee
launched drone attacks in Yemen.” Why? Because a recent video showed (that) al
Qaeda leaders in Yemen (were) taunting the United States.” Apparently three
civilians were killed in the raids. (SF Chronicle April 22, 2014) Are we so
thin skinned?
The continuing drone bombings
kill people in Yemen and Pakistan. The last I heard the U.S. has not declared
war on either of these countries. We are at peace with them. Nefarious forces
in our government, including the President, hail these cruel and illegal
bombings as necessary for their counterterrorism activities. I notice the war
is undeclared and never ending. No evidence is forthcoming of the effectiveness
of these excursions in inhumane bombings. They kill civilians and perhaps some
alleged so-called terrorists.
One wonders why the U.S. is
hated and terrorism rages?
posted by RWC | 8:24 AM
1 Comments:
Hey Robert,
A guy who has 6-12 cans of beer every day, especially while at home, is a drunk. At that amount he's numbing himself to something, and, given he does this at home, he's blocking out the others in his family. Waiting for the drunk to declare himself a drunk is a fool's errand. Alcoholism does not start with the admission of alcoholism, it starts with drinking too much. What's too much is as much the decision of the loved ones as the drinker. This guy is a functioning alcky. One doesn't have to fall down in the gutter, lose jobs, fuck up everything one touches to be a drunk. And, who the hell wants to hang around, be married to, grow up with someone who gets drunk every night? Having grown up in an alcoholic family, I know that waiting for the drunk to self proclaim is denial, pure and simple. Al-Anon is hardly a panacea - often it becomes a way to enable the drunk to stay a drunk, because it rarely offers help for people to set a boundary, and stick to it. Only a boundary that tells the drunk to stop drinking, deal with the inherent wound being self-medicated, or go on in life without his/her partner, children, and loved ones, will work.
Love to Ann,
Andy
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