In her first interview since President Obama commuted her 十年徒刑 and she was released from the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Chelsea Manning 解释 至 夜 co-anchor Juju Chang why she leaked documents about America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “We’re getting all this information from all these different sources and it’s just death, destruction, mayhem,” she said, describing the period when, still Bradley Manning, she was an intelligence analyst at a U.S. military forward operating base in Iraq. “We’re filtering it all through facts, statistics, reports, dates, times, locations, and eventually, you just stop. I stopped seeing just statistics and information, and I started seeing people.”
That crucial transformation led Manning to release to WikiLeaks, among many other documents, a now-infamous 2007 电影. It offered a graphic view of how the crew of an American Apache helicopter slaughtered civilians (including two Iraqi Reuters correspondents) on the streets of Baghdad and then riddled a “good Samaritan” van that tried to help those gunned down, killing its driver and wounding his two young children in the backseat — all this to a soundtrack of brutal, sardonic comments. As Manning 解释 at her 2013 court-martial, speaking of such videos as “war porn,”
“The most alarming aspect of the video to me… was the seem[ing]ly delightful bloodlust [the crewmen] appeared to have… [They] seemed to not value human life by referring to them as quote dead bastards unquote and congratulating each other on the ability to kill in large numbers… While saddened by the aerial weapons team crew’s lack of concern about human life, I was disturbed by the response of the discovery of injured children at the scene… Within minutes, the aerial weapons team crew learns that children were in the van and despite the injuries the crew exhibits no remorse. Instead, they downplay the significance of their actions, saying quote Well, it’s their fault for bringing their kids into a battle unquote.”
Manning served seven years in a military prison for having grasped in a deeply personal and powerful way that, as she told the military judge at her trial, “not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan are targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.” As TomDispatch 定期 Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and author most recently of 流氓正义:建立安全国家, points out, this may, in fact, be the hardest thing for Americans thousands of miles from their country’s war zones to grasp. And yet, as she makes clear, not to grasp what’s been happening to the inhabitants, especially the children, of the Greater Middle East, where the U.S. has fought its disastrous war on terror for the last 15 years, means consigning our world to far worse in the future. After all, what else is likely to come from a region now in chaos, with 失败状态 multiplying, a number of its great cities in 瓦砾, its territories filling with ever more extreme jihadists, ethnic conflict on the rise, and staggering numbers of its inhabitants 连根拔起 and brutalized?
I’m reminded of the last line of the short story “狂人日记” published in 1918 by the great Chinese writer Lu Hsun. In it, he imagines a man plunged into insanity and so freed to see, as no one else around him can, that his country is quite literally being consumed by cannibalism. (His was a 愿景 of a “feudal” Chinese world, perched at the edge of modernity, that continued to eat itself alive.) The unforgettable final lines of his story are: “Perhaps there are still children who haven’t eaten men. Save the children…”
In significant parts of our world, in Lu Hsun’s terms, even the children are now being eaten and the Chelsea Mannings seem sadly few in number.
- 所有的孩子都去了哪里?
悲伤时代
Karen Greenberg • 15 年 2017 月 2,200 日 • XNUMX 字
“Chelsea Manning explained…why 她 leaked documents…”?
You refer to a biological male (even if he were surgically castrated, which, as of the present, we are informed he has not been, in which case he would be a eunuch) by the personal pronoun 她 because it is politically correct, not because it corresponds to physical reality. Manning is genetically XY (male).
Leftists are always willing to twist the truth in order to maintain their Narrative, which is their view of the universe as their elite directors wish it to be. In the near future, you and your ilk will punish people (such as journalists and academics) who refuse on religious or moral grounds to write and speak Genderfuck Newspeak by firing them.
You and all leftists are the enemies of biology and therefore of science, not its defenders. As far as the controversy over Climate Change is concerned, you are also the enemies of science. Planet Earth is doomed if we abandon the Paris Climate Accords; alternatively, planet Earth is doomed if we follow the Paris Climate Accords. They are worse than a fig leaf on the refusal of industrial society to radically abandon its way of doing things, they are a false solution. Please read:
https://guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/see-how-far-weve-come/
“Spaceship Earth” is headed into a state of extreme crisis. This is not the time for the crew to go mad. Calling a male “she” is a manifestation of madness. We must return to sanity ASAP. You aren’t helping.