February 4, 2024
Thus began a recent, and oh so
typical, piece of war reportage. It was purveyed by the New York Times but it’s
something you find in almost any mainstream source. The essence of the news is
that the U.S. will continue to support Israel’s right to “defend itself” by
bombing the crap out of Gaza and will keep feeding it the military equipment
necessary to do so, but it sternly urges Israel to try not to kill too many
babies or other civilians. Get it? War must be — and is, when we wage it — a
moral undertaking.
