How many Iraqi and ME journalists were killed by Bushco

[malaise]

and his goons.
How mny Iraqis were slaughtered?
How many of their families destroyed"
How many millions humiliated in their own country and then displaced.

And the West thinks bombing them some more will change anything?

There will always be resistance - it's human nature.
I will not be supporting any neo-con agenda. Sorry.
We in the West brought this on ourselves and bombing more people will make it worse.
Stop invading and occupying countries - stop looting other people's resources.
How gullible are we anyway?

[J_J_]

1. agree completely

I remember AlJazeera getting bombed after giving their location to the US several times, another reporter being specifically targeted for observing illegal behavior.

Interestingly I heard on NPR that James Foley was researching and reporting on cluster bombs when he was captured.

The US still builds and uses cluster bombs even though they are a violation of international law.

I imagine these are breeding a new generation of terrorists:

President Obama was quoted recently saying that the murder of reporter James Foley by Islamic State militants was an act of terrorism. Obama’s saber-rattling speech was obviously provoked by the manner in which Foley was executed…vis-a-vis decapitation…which has been described by the popular press as “barbaric.”

And yet the U.S. is systematically killing innocent civilians every day in a far more barbaric manner.

For years, the U.S. has scattered unexploded, fist-sized “bomblets” (a.k.a., cluster bombs) over large areas of Afghanistan, Viet Nam, Laos, Iraq and Yemen. These bombs kill and maim in particularly excruciating ways. The majority of the victims of these unexploded bombs are children who accidentally detonate them. Cluster bombs cut babies in half, pepper their bodies with shrapnel, blacken the skin, smash heads and tear limbs.

The U.S. press won’t comment on this, far less film it, because it is considered too terrifying to witness. In conclusion, 63 U.S. financial institutions currently finance cluster munition production for producers such as Lockheed Martin, Textron and Raytheon. Eighty-three countries have ratified a ban on their use. The United States is not among them.

Allan Cooper is a retired Cal Poly professor.