beginning to believe that the liberal and pseudo-intellectual mind is simply unable to understand what an aistrike or a bomb or a missile is. like im serious but they are acting as though airstrike deaths simply don’t count—even for israeli hostages. they’ll talk about bringing them home but if you tell them that the hostages are being bombed too their eyes glaze over
there’s a lot to be said about how the west experiences airstrikes and drone warfare as the moment of deliberation before your fingers push a button but the middle east has experienced airstrikes as screaming, being buried alive under rubble, burns that are not on the curriculums of medical schools, being crippled for life by a new weapon that will not be publicly acknowledged for years, blood everywhere, bodies decomposing under buildings and memories and childhoods that will no longer exist
drone warfare was in part to spare soldiers the mental difficulty of killing face-to-face, but i think it has also created an unbridgeable gap between the entire populations of those who make the bombs and those who receive them
In the early days of the Holocaust, the orders were for German soldiers to gun down Jewish men, women, and children enmasse. It turns out this is terrible for German morale; even the most avowed nazis who were involved spoke of the mental anguish they experienced doing this, and many many suicides followed. The solution to this problem of bare minimum humanity (because they did still gun down the Jews of course, their consciences didn’t stop them) was to industrialize the killing and make it something more palatable. Thus, the gas chamber was introduced.
That is precisely what the air strike is for the American people.
