So the Americans have accidentally bombed another target of interest.
This time it was in Syria and after the aforementioned error ISIS happened to mount a strategic attack taking advantage of an otherwise wholly unforeseen situation which came in the middle of a supposed ceasefire. Naturally the Syrians are outraged.
(Incidentally, for some of us this episode is reminiscent of another American mishap in 1999 when five laser-guided United States missiles unintentionally obliterated the Chinese Embassy in then-Yugoslavia.)
Be that as it may the response from officials in The Homeland was less than somber contemplation. President Barack Obama went to the Congressional Black Caucus gala to browbeat the brethren into voting for candidate Hillary Clinton or else (in his words) their apathy would be a “personal insult.”
Ambassador Samantha Power took time out from assisting refugee children to arrive at United Nations Headquarters where she gave a rambling and quite nearly incoherent speech about the tyranny of al-Assad while scarcely mentioning the scores of his people her country had just killed.
Speaking of Presidential candidates, neither seemed particularly bothered by the fact dozens of persons had hours earlier been murdered by the U.S. government and instead each focused largely on a pipe bomb detonated in New York City which killed exactly no one and came at an extremely convenient time for literally every single major news channel in the United States to focus coverage on something other than the point its military may have gotten citizens into a war they vociferously rejected in 2013.
If anyone believes this an overstatement of the case, perhaps a survey course in Official American Outrage is in order…
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Government conducted a surprise attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor. The number of dead was 1,177 personnel. Americans were so outraged it was enough to propel the United States into a global conflagration literally the very next day.
On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor at Cuba. The number of dead was 268 men. Americans were outraged and by April 25 of that year they had declared war on Spain which ultimately led to taking control of numerous territories including both Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
On May 7, 1915, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine in a theater of war despite numerous warnings this is precisely what would happen if that ship entered said operational area. Among the deceased were 128 citizens of the United States. Americans were outraged and thenceforth viewed Germany as the “aggressor” in what became known as World War One. This was a major influence of the decision two years later on April 6, 1917, for the United States to declare hostilities.
On April 25, 1846, approximately 2,000 Mexican troops crossed a disputed boundary with the United States. A brief engagement ensued which saw 11 casualties. Americans were outraged and declared…