RPI: The Rise and the Fall of the Humanitarian Interventionists

[sailingaway]

The Rise and the Fall of the Humanitarian Interventionists

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archive...all-of-the-humanitarian-interventionists.aspx

 

[ClydeCoulter]

I would like to bump this.

 

[sailingaway]

I posted this in another thread, but it is interesting how similar the result of the bombs regardless of the motive for using them, isnt it?

 

[ClydeCoulter]

@sailingaway, those pictures just make me sick...

 

[sailingaway]

@sailingaway, those pictures just make me sick...

perhaps they will make others think.

 

[nobody's_hero]

@sailingaway, those pictures just make me sick...

The Syrian one is shocking given the time frame of only 5 years.

But, I'd prob. rethink the Afghanistan one. I mean, A lot happened between 1969 and 2013. (not saying I doubt the images, just that the U.S. was solely to blame)

 

[sailingaway]

The Syrian one is shocking given the time frame of only 5 years.

But, I'd prob. rethink the Afghanistan one. I mean, A lot happened between 1969 and 2013. (not saying I doubt the images, just that the U.S. was solely to blame)

Other things happened but we built up the Taliban against the soviets so we kind of came out on their side from the people's point of view. Still, if it was a Soviet bomb... you are right there are other actors who were there.

Still interventionism, but not uniquely ours.

 

[Carson]

Links to a couple of other Middle East before and after pictures.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-middle-east-1/nato-bombed-libya-back-into-stone-age-.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gavinsblog/208139199/

 

[Carson]

sailingaway,

Your pictures reminded me of some statistics on Vietnam. I'm not sure of the accuracy but...
it does make you think when someone says something like military industrial complex. Seems there was more to it than the people or the land.


"The US has dropped 300 pounds of bombs for every man, woman, and child in Indochina, or 22 tons of bombs for every square mile in nnnnnn'n heyday."

Don't remember where the statistic is from.^^^^^



"(“U.S. and South Vietnamese aircraft dropped 400,000 tons of napalm (making up 10% of all munitions expended by fighter-bomber sorties during the war)."

http://napalmbiography.com/book/notes/



Vietnam Population

1970 44,928,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Vietnam

 

[sailingaway]

Links to a couple of other Middle East before and after pictures.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-middle-east-1/nato-bombed-libya-back-into-stone-age-.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gavinsblog/208139199/

your first one. the other one is harder.