I have no sympathy for Americans caring about the tax payer cost while ignoring their complicity in imperialist wars (yes, it is plural). If you are not protesting as hard the annexation and extraction of Venezuela’s oil, the embargo of Cuba (shit, I am getting tired of listing crimes against humanity), you are not protesting war, you are protesting losing and you should not expect anyone in the world to feel sorry for you.
This is what we expect from Americans though. They decry the loss of American lives, even when those specific persons were involved in murdering people who aren’t and don’t want to be American.
You’ll notice that people from other places don’t talk that way. Europeans don’t talk about “French lives,” Japanese don’t talk about “Japanese lives,” and Iranians don’t talk about “Iranian lives.” It’s a uniquely American thing and it’s all about an ingrained sense of American exceptionalism.
I have no sympathy for Americans caring about the tax payer cost while ignoring their complicity in imperialist wars (yes, it is plural). If you are not protesting as hard the annexation and extraction of Venezuela’s oil, the embargo of Cuba (shit, I am getting tired of listing crimes against humanity), you are not protesting war, you are protesting losing and you should not expect anyone in the world to feel sorry for you.
This is what we expect from Americans though. They decry the loss of American lives, even when those specific persons were involved in murdering people who aren’t and don’t want to be American.
You’ll notice that people from other places don’t talk that way. Europeans don’t talk about “French lives,” Japanese don’t talk about “Japanese lives,” and Iranians don’t talk about “Iranian lives.” It’s a uniquely American thing and it’s all about an ingrained sense of American exceptionalism.