U.S. Military Orders Second Strike to Ensure No Survivors
When the Washington Post reports on a U.S. military strike in September (date unspecified in source summary, citing an NPR article about the hypothetical WaPo story about it) that included a 'second strike… to kill two survivors,' NPR wonders aloud if this might be a war crime. This sudden moralizing is quite a pivot for outlets that routinely sanitize the destruction of entire neighborhoods as
'collateral damage' or 'unavoidable during conflict.' One might recall the U.S. drone program under multiple administrations, which perfected the art of the 'double tap' strike against funeral-goers attending victims of the first strike, largely without such agonizing introspection from the mainstream press. The Venezuelan angle is also intriguing; funny how 'narco-terrorist' takes precedence over
'human being' when Washington needs to exercise its regional dominance. How many survivors of U.S.-backed coups, sanctions, or bombings in Latin America over the past century have received such thoughtful, post-facto ethical debates from our media? This selective outrage isn't about international law; it's about what narrative serves the current political wind, or which administration is being
retrospectively demonized.