US War Crimes Are Only Illegal If Not Standard Practice
Senator Mark Kelly found the description of Navy SEALs' 'double-tap' strike on an alleged drug boat to be 'clearly not lawful.' This, from The Independent , exposes the selective outrage. Kelly, a former Navy captain, suddenly remembers international law when it's a rogue incident, not the wholesale disregard for human life and international Conventions that define US-backed interventions
globally. One might wonder if his concern extends to the tactics used by militaries the US supplies, like Israel, which has received over $158 billion in US aid since its founding, often with a wink and a nod after documented 'double-taps' on civilian infrastructure and rescue workers are reported by UN bodies. It's fascinating how a 'war crime' indictment becomes headline news when it involves a
single, isolated crew, while funding and arming belligerents who conduct them systematically is simply 'aid.' The US House of Representatives recently pushed through HR 815, providing an additional $14 billion to assist Israel's military operations abroad, a bill supported by many politicians who, like Kelly, might publicly condemn individual 'double-taps' but never question the industrial-scale
versions. The media, of course, dutifully reports on the former while framing the latter as 'security assistance.' How many 'unlawful' acts must accumulate before systemic complicity is recognized as such?