And .... don't forget the My Lai massacre.

Yes, those righteous American soldiers were good and true, putting their lives on the line to protect us. Yep, true heroes ..... until they got caught raping and mutilating the women of My Lai (both before and after they murdered them). Yes, those heroes of Charlie Company of 1st Battalion 20th Infantry Regiment. They butchered, mutilated, raped and murdered nearly 500 innocent, unarmed civilians, mostly women, children, infants and elderly people. For a period before the massacre, they gang raped the women.

Wonderful American "justice" found only ONE of these criminal murderers guilty. He was found guilty of 22 murders, and served .... wait for it ... 3 and 1/2 years under house arrest. He was then freed, to live his life in total freedom.

The victims were not "American". The victims were not "white". The victims had ZERO value to America.

Therefore .....

American "justice" spoke.

And the majority of Americans (and Australians) just couldn't care less.

Our morality is steeped in double standards, and those double standards go right back into history's pages.

Look at the heinous crime committed by the USA with their secret (at the time) and illegal carpet bombing of neutral Cambodia, during which they murdered, on purpose, over a hundred thousand totally innocent civilians. They knew they were dropping bombs directly onto innocent civilians who had NO anti American sentiment whatsoever. It was a major USA crime against humanity.

But, when you've got the bombs, the military and the power, you can do what you want without consequence.

The human race is STILL at a VERY primitive stage of it's intellectual biology. We "think" we are superior to other species of animals. We're not.

Who fed us that?
Who fed you and DiamondPete the idea without America we would not be slaves.
Who blinded you to the awful murders of the enemy, why have you not taken their far worse actions to heart.
Most importantly your views are shared by a phone box full of people.
As STG said me too after seeing the mass murders.
The true left is truly lost.
Three wise? Monkeys unable to see or hear truth.
And totally unwilling to speak it

So "terrorists" only act in response to what we do? Please. Do you REALLY think they care? They only care about one thing; their ridiculous hypocritical religion

stG like most think that the terrorists are only Muslim.The Gulf of Tonkin incident which was used as an excuse to send troops to Vietnam has now been disclosed as a lie.We know Iraq was a lie.There were no WMD's.It was always about the oil.

The West has used many false flag incidents to initiate wars and invasions.Nothing has changed.

see http://globalresearch.ca/

@ YEBIGA,

<<Torture has a brutalizing effect. What we do today to supposed terrorists we will find reasons to repeat against others and inevitably against each other.>>

I agree with Stg “You're living in La-La Land”

The activities spotlighted by you are not likely to convert too many of the *uncommitted* to terrorism.

What are far more likely to foster terrorism are, things like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltsv40vCP7g
And this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjIBrs4_b98

And more often than not, things like this: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=5419#147663

Arjay,

'Resource wars' are nothing new and they are 'about' to go global and serious. Why do you think we're manoeuvring into a potential issue with China. *We're* getting sick and tired with dealing with these middle eastern whack job countries for their oil and now that it's slowly becoming a real affordability issue we need to figure out a way to keep our societal machine going or we'll just stop working.

Without oil our society stops. We need it. You and me will be growing our own food to stay alive. ZERO medical help. We will go tribal. As much as you don't like the government, I'm sure you enjoy your current comforts.

Sorry to the original poster. Slightly off topic. Maybe start a thread on the outcome of unaffordable oil.