“American Gun Use Is Out of Control. Shouldn’t the World Intervene?”
24th September 2013
A bit of vacuous hand-wringing from the Guardian, the British equivalent of The Nation.
That’s America, we say, as news of the latest massacre breaks – last week it was the slaughter of 12 people by Aaron Alexis at Washington DC’s navy yard – and move on. But what if we no longer thought of this as just a problem for America and, instead, viewed it as an international humanitarian crisis – a quasi civil war, if you like, that calls for outside intervention? As citizens of the world, perhaps we should demand an end to the unimaginable suffering of victims and their families – the maiming and killing of children – just as America does in every new civil conflict around the globe.
This from a country that has a constant problem of jihadists murdering people on the street and in the subways, with gangs of Pakistani immigrants and their get grooming girls for sex slavery. Shouldn’t the world intervene? No, because that would be raaaaaaasit.
And then there’s the massacre at a Kenyan mall that is still in the news, in which the death toll is by my estimate at least three times that at the Navy Yard, and yet not a peep out of these guys. Shouldn’t the world intervene? No, because it’s just wogs shooting niggers and nobody at the lily-white Guardian can be bothered about those sorts of people.
And don’t get me started about the civil war in Syria, which is like a fight between Hitler and Stalin – there is no good side, just two different flavors of bad that we wouldn’t even consider being involved in did we not have an arrested adolescent for a President.