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[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The first picture is an apartment block getting leveled.

The second one is a man at Abu Gharib being electrocuted with mains power, where thousands of prisoners, mostly picked up for petty crimes or detained without trial met worse fates, including worse torture, rape, and murder.

The third is a child who managed to tear her clothes off after the US dropped napalm on them as they fled their village, but was burnt badly enough she had to spend 14 months in the hospital. She was one of the lucky ones.

The fourth is the second atomic bomb the US dropped on a civilian population.

From what perspective is murdering hundreds (hundreds of thousands in the case of Nagasaki) of civilians just trying to live their lives on the other side of the planet acts of self-defense?