It might be an outlandish and a complete sweeping statement to make, but the more and more I learn, the more I can't help but think, the US Marines/army are no better than the Taliban. Why do I think this? They're both headed by war mongering, militant, power hungry men. Both have no qualms about severly breaching human rights in their mission, and both would sooner use weapons than diplomacy to achieve it. The only difference is; the US do this under the cloak of "democracy".
I'm beginning to harbour a severe dislike for the US government and their military institutions, it comes close to my hatred for terrorism. The more I research into American institutions such as prisons, the more I discover just how much is allowed to be swept under the carpet. A point in case? Guantanamo Bay, how is this atrocity still allowed to be running as a fully functional detention facility? Do human rights mean nothing to a country who is supposedly one of the biggest advocates of democracy? It makes me so angry.
I'm beginning to believe that US militancy should be viewed on the same level as the extremism of the Taliban and it will only be, when people realise this and act accrodingly that wars that threaten all levels of society can be avoided. We need to stop terrorism, yes, but as Mahatma Gandhi once said "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind".
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