Friday, February 04, 2005
More racist hypocrites of the Right
Marine General Counseled Over Comments
Some choice quotes from U.S. Lt. Gnl James Mattis:
"You know, it's a hell of a hoot. ... It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right upfront with you, I like brawling."
Oh, but war is humanitarian, right? We're doing this because we have to, not because we want to. If this guy said this in a court of law, he'd be deemed criminally insane. In an army, he's given medals.
"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."
A) Murder as sport
He makes war look like a game, a sport, the kind people play on weekends & follow on TV. By equating war with everyday activity, he's normalizing it. He's helping recruit working class Americans to throw their lives away for capitalism.
b) Masculinity
It's real manly to carpetbomb people, to use cluster bombs that look like toys for children to pick up, to use the most lethal military force the world has ever seen against geurilla armies. It's real manly to send poor Americans to die for your foreign policy. Gnl Mattis is real courageous.
c) The Veil
The Americans treat women better than the Taliban? How many women have the Americans shot in Afghanistan? How many grieving widows have they made? The Taliban are sexist assholes. Who created them? Why, it was the CIA, to fight Communism. In other words, Gnl Mattis, it was your own bloody government, the one you're killing for today. If he cared about Afghani women, he would've done something about it 20 years ago. He wouldn't be representing a government that, up to 1996, was happy to have the Taliban in power.
Gnl Mattis is appealing to men's sense of democracy & equality, the knowledge that abusing women is a bad thing, to justify military brutality & occupation. But a lot of Afghani women don't want his help:
http://www.rawa.org/anti-war.htm
They see his concern for what it is: the muzzle on the rabid dog, that makes you feel safe to approach it, before it falls off and the beast tears you to shreds.
Some choice quotes from U.S. Lt. Gnl James Mattis:
"You know, it's a hell of a hoot. ... It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right upfront with you, I like brawling."
Oh, but war is humanitarian, right? We're doing this because we have to, not because we want to. If this guy said this in a court of law, he'd be deemed criminally insane. In an army, he's given medals.
"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."
A) Murder as sport
He makes war look like a game, a sport, the kind people play on weekends & follow on TV. By equating war with everyday activity, he's normalizing it. He's helping recruit working class Americans to throw their lives away for capitalism.
b) Masculinity
It's real manly to carpetbomb people, to use cluster bombs that look like toys for children to pick up, to use the most lethal military force the world has ever seen against geurilla armies. It's real manly to send poor Americans to die for your foreign policy. Gnl Mattis is real courageous.
c) The Veil
The Americans treat women better than the Taliban? How many women have the Americans shot in Afghanistan? How many grieving widows have they made? The Taliban are sexist assholes. Who created them? Why, it was the CIA, to fight Communism. In other words, Gnl Mattis, it was your own bloody government, the one you're killing for today. If he cared about Afghani women, he would've done something about it 20 years ago. He wouldn't be representing a government that, up to 1996, was happy to have the Taliban in power.
Gnl Mattis is appealing to men's sense of democracy & equality, the knowledge that abusing women is a bad thing, to justify military brutality & occupation. But a lot of Afghani women don't want his help:
http://www.rawa.org/anti-war.htm
They see his concern for what it is: the muzzle on the rabid dog, that makes you feel safe to approach it, before it falls off and the beast tears you to shreds.
