During the Iran-Iraq War the CIA knowingly and deliberately helped Iraq launch poison gas attacks against the Iranians, resulting in more than 100,000 casualties, most of them civilian. So, par for the course isn't it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War#Iraq's_u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_attacks_against...
Congratulating them for their great work towards human rights and publicly expelling and denouncing the perpetrators of atrocities. You know, leading by example.
Isn't that what we did in Iraq, blindly listen to the IC? Ha, that was an A++ operation. All those lives lost - for absolutely nothing. I mean sure there was "Iraqi democracy" but where did the WMD's go? The solution being proposed is to literally kill the messenger. It's a two-party induced cognitive dissonance where you would rather be lied to than have your political affiliation be embarrassed.
Can we both agree that war is bad and things are always more complex than they seem? In the grand scheme of things these events rank pretty low on the list of priorities when you are fighting a war.
Yeah, in theory, there are other variables. In practice, the chances are that if you turn a blind eye to the routine torture children you are simply an evil person.
Unfortunately it feels the US is powerful enough that the international community isn't stepping in with sanctions against the US
This is not a new development. We have been the least bad of the bad actors for years, or at least had the least bad intentions for our allies.
The fact that some regime decided to invade a foreign country out of self-interested changes nothing at all.
Your second point is a red herring.
No. You can stop there. Stop trying to defend the undefensible.
If not for Assange and Manning, more parent's would have to watch while their child is brutally tortured and mutilated by the psychopathic enforcers of the US puppet regime.
This is where every rational discussion about WikiLeaks and Assange should always start. Now we can talk about Assange's abrasive personality and dumb political views.