{"id":348541,"date":"2018-02-16T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T14:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/american-carnage\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T15:15:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T14:15:32","slug":"american-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/american-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"American Carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Americans have a remarkable tolerance for child slaughter, especially the mass murders of the children of others. This emotional indifference manifested itself vividly after the disclosure of the My Lai Massacre, when dozens of Vietnamese infants and children were killed by the men of Charlie Company, their tiny, butchered corpses stacked in ditches. After the trial of Lt. William Calley, more than 70 percent of Americans believed his sentence was too severe. Most objected to any trial at all. In the end, Calley served less than 4 years under house arrest for his role in the execution of more than 500 Vietnamese villagers.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five years later, American attitudes toward child deaths had coarsened even harder. When it was revealed that US sanctions on Iraq had caused the deaths of more than 500,000 Iraqi children, Bill Clinton\u2019s Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, icily argued that the deaths were \u201cworth it\u201d to advance US policy in the Middle East. Few Americans remonstrated against this official savagery done in their name.<\/p>\n<p>Now the guns are being turned on America\u2019s own children and the rivers of blood streaming out of US schools cause barely a ripple in our politics. If the Columbine shooting was a tragedy, what word do you use to describe the 436<sup>th<\/sup> school shooting since then?<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t look for an answer or even solace from any of our political leaders. All you\u2019ll get is cant, hollow prayers and banal vituperations of the sort we\u2019ve been hearing for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/16\/american-carnage\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans have a remarkable tolerance for child slaughter, especially the mass murders of the children of others. This emotional indifference manifested itself vividly after the disclosure of the My Lai Massacre, when dozens of Vietnamese infants and children were killed by the men of Charlie Company, their tiny, butchered corpses stacked in ditches. After the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}