Intentional death, wounding, destruction and the debilitating conditions of war are inhumane. Our leaders want to automate war. Will they automate ignoring the will of the people too?
Update 11-12-23: On Face the Nation National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Israel is "searching for ways" to keep Gaza City hospital patients safe. How about not attacking them?
Sullivan spoke after Margaret Brennan interviewed the head of Doctors Without Borders. The doctor described non-functioning hospitals jammed with sick babies and post surgical patients.
Gaza hospitals need to be evacuated to functioning hospitals in the region. That's what a humane international community would do. Anything otherwise (what Jake said) is purposeful death and further disability.
I'm sure Sullivan spoke forcefully about Russia's attacks on Ukrainian healthcare facilities and the killing of medical workers. Sullivan told CNN's Fareed Zakharia:
Russia continues to show every single day that it is acting in monstrous ways.
The U.S. public sees America whitewashing Israel's actions, the very same ones for which we condemn Russia. It's not a good look.
Disclosure: I helped evacuate two hospitals, one completely inoperable from flooding and the other prior to a Category 5 hurricane. I can attest inoperable hospitals need to be evacuated ASAP and to the difficulty of moving hospitalized patients in a limited time frame. Neither of those evacuations was in a war zone.
Update 1-7-24: U.S. foreign policy is driven by corporate interests, not public will.
There are perhaps a thousand key individuals involved in setting policy. The public interest plays little role.
Update 4-5-24: The world is horrified by the killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza. Jesse's Crossroads Cafe wrote:
Over 30,000 innocent civilians and 196 aid workers have been systematically targeted and murdered in Gaza in this ongoing act of ethnic cleansing. The aid workers and food convoys are being targeted to promote the starvation of a civilian population. Their lies and phony claims are disgraceful, and transparent to the rest of the world. Yesterday's strike that targeted seven Western aid workers has finally provoked a response. More misery and pain is being inflicted in the West Bank, in what can only be said as a 'grab for land' of other people.
