Robert C. Koehler: Taking war personally
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Mar 04, 2021
4 minutes
“For Washington, it seems that whatever the problem is, the answer is bombing.”
So wrote Stephen Zunes, in the wake of Joe Biden’s first act of murder as president . . . excuse me, his first act of defensive military action: bombing a border post in Syria last week, killing 22 of our enemies. This action, of course, will quickly be forgotten. “The United States has bombed Syria more than 20,000 times over the past eight years,” Zunes notes, adding:
“The United States began bombing these ancient lands 30 years ago, at the start of the Gulf War. The U.S. has continued bombing Iraq and
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