G. Edward Griffin Comments on General Milley’s Comparison of Gaza War to US Bombing of Japan
Retired US General Mark Milley says the US has slaughtered massive numbers of innocent people in war and that Americans have no right to criticize Israel’s devastation of Gaza.
Commentary by G. Edward Griffin:
Beware of the propaganda in this report. We are dealing here with a half-truth to deflect the moral impact of a hideous act. Technically, what General Milley is saying is true IF the facts of the narrative are true. If the facts are not true, then the meaning of what he says is false.
There are two assumptions hidden in his statement. The first is that the United States did exactly the same thing when it dropped the A-Bomb on Japan in 1945 to end the slaughter of World War Two. Therefore, it was justified and not to be criticized. There also is the mantra of collectivism – “Any act can be justified if it serves the greater good of the greater number”. By bringing the war to a close quickly rather than letting it drag on, the General said, the total number of deaths would be smaller. Therefore, the act was moral.
The truth of the matter, however, is that dropping the A-Bomb on Japan was not necessary to bring Japan to surrender. Japan was attempting to negotiate a surrender months before the bomb was dropped. It was trying to deliver this message to the US through ambassadors of other countries, and the effort was known within US diplomatic channels. These peace gestures, however, were shunned by President Roosevelt and the policy makers in the State Department because they wanted, not a negotiated surrender, but an unconditional surrender. They also wanted to demonstrate to the world the awesome power of the atomic bomb to establish the United States as the supreme world power after the war. All the talk about killing innocent people to avoid even more deaths in combat was pure propaganda for the naïve masses. The real motive for dropping the A-bomb was to establish the U.S, as the supreme world power after the war.
Is a continuing genocidal assault against the civilian population of Gaza really motivated by a desire to save lives? Only a fool could believe that – especially in view of the long history of Israeli intent, publicly stated, to take total possession of the region — and we must not forget the recurring statements of Israeli leaders to the effect that the inhabitants of Gaza are mere animals and must be eliminated like rodents.
The bottom line is that half of the the stated facts by General Milley are not true. The massive killing of Palestinian civilians IS similar to the needless killing of Japanese civilians in World War II, but the motivation in BOTH cases was NOT to save lives but to further political objectives of the states conducting the attacks. Therefore, his statement is propaganda to deflect attention from the truth.
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