http://dagblog.com/link/human-rights-starts-home-33775 Comments for "Human Rights Starts at Home" en http://dagblog.com/comment/299693#comment-299693 <a id="comment-299693"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/human-rights-starts-home-33775">Human Rights Starts at Home</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Biden is stopping Yemen support. Likely Afghanistan will be drawn down soon, but not in the careless harmful manner Trump pushed. The article glosses over (ignores) that the US is often 2 regimes with near opposite policies, though sometimes they coalesce.</p> <p>Is selling weapons bad per se? The author points to 700 civilians killed in Afghanistan. But in the 5 year war in Congo around 5 million civilians were killed, along with famous rape gangs. Sudan and South Sudan half as bad and more drawn out. The # of full-out wars has dropped hugely - no Iraq-Iran, no Vietnam/Cambodia, even the humanitarian crisis from Syria or Libya are nothing like the massive bloody expulsions from Indonesia in 1965.</p> <p>Even Chomsky seems to recognize he was lecturing in a different time, that much has changed. Why doesn't this guy?</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 07 Feb 2021 03:24:00 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 299693 at http://dagblog.com