Pentagon Hides Caribbean War Crimes, But Shows Us Yours
The Guardian reports the Pentagon won't release footage of a September attack in the Caribbean, where US forces allegedly killed survivors of an initial strike. Legal experts are 'concerned' a war crime may have occurred. This isn't newfound Pentagon opaqueness; it's standard operating procedure. When evidence of potential misconduct emerges, especially against non-white, non-Western populations,
the curtain drops. Remember the Apache helicopter footage from Baghdad in 2007? Or the drone strike videos conveniently 'lost' until whistleblowers leak them? This administration, like its predecessors, excels at condemning civilian casualties abroad while actively obscuring those caused by its own forces. It's a convenient double standard: outrage for 'our' victims, silence for
'theirs'—especially when 'theirs' are in the Global South. How many times will we watch the Pentagon investigate itself and find no wrongdoing before we realize that lack of transparency is the policy?