Up host Chris Hayes and his panel have a list of items "You Should Know" for the upcoming week, including the names of the 17 Afghan civilians allegedly murdered by U.S. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales earlier this month.
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I was moved when you read their names Chris. Thank you for doing this.
I had mixed feelings about the reading of those names which I will never remember. Life was lost and war is the enemy of Life. My thoughts go out to the suffering families because of this horrific crime. However, I also sensed it to be a slap in the face to our soldiers who are pressed beyond their own sanity all for corporate greed. When will our government start believing that our people are our greatestest asset and recognize that the love of money as our grand creator/sustainer is destroying us?
Chris, correct me if I'm wrong, but I did not see your segment where you read the names of the americans killed by Major Hasan in Texas?
What's your point? That it is hypocritical? That the afghan victims do not deserve empathy as people just like us, family members, husband and wife, son and daughter, and friends and acquaintances trying to get on with life? It is easy enough for us to see that connection among those we view as kin- other Americans, right? And it is easy for the Hasans, Bales, and Zimmermans of the world to see people strange to them as not kin, not deserving the same human connection.
So much so that they can easily take their lives.
Without names, what we see submerges into inexistence. Giving names is the Genesis of the existence of a world of empathy. It has a lot to do with the creation of the world we know can exist if we extend our minds to embrace it and make it real.
My money and representatives' time were spent to facilitate the killing of those Afghan people. I check all my other receipts.
Reading of names is the least we can do to recognize the waste of life caused by policies created to excuse war.
Glenn, was Chris' show even in existence when the TX event happened? Does the military allow the release of names?
Their names were not mentioned anywhere else in the MSM. Americans need to see the faces, hear the names and ages of those killed in Afghanistan, Iraq etc. Stop the dehumanization
I recall Gw Bush telling them to hand over Bin Laden and we wouldn't invade. How did that turn out? Americans got screwed, Afghanis got screwed and our soldiers are getting screwed. War is never pretty or nice and we shouldn't feign outrage and concern that our trained killers kill people. What that soldier did is nothing more than what happens with almost every authorized drone attack. But we will prosecute and condemn one of our own for acting crazy in a purely crazed situation where we placed him in our self-serving attempt to appear righteous to the world. All we actually do is soothe our consciences because nothing we are doing there can wash the blood off our hands. Our being there has more to do with constructing a natural gas pipeline. (see the movie Fahrenheit 911) "The love of money IS the root of all evil."
So important to hear the names of those massacred in Afghanistan. So important.
We need to hear their ages, see their faces too. Make it real for Americans. Thanks for taking my suggestion from March 22nd
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Hope you folks on UP focuson how the US MSM has basically been dehumanizazing the people who were killed in the massacre in Afghanistan. And how our MSM has essentially been building the case for an insanity plea. Now I am all about attention being put on soldiers numerous deployments, stress they are under, families left behind, the reasons for these wars etc. Many of us have been making the case for them focusing on these critical issues for over 8 years. Some of us were making the case before the invasion. But now that is all the MSM is doing. As soon as they mention this massacre they flip the script never focus on those massacred and move to the alleged killer and essentially “make excuses”
Noticing on all and I generally do not say ALL MSM outlets this week when they are talking about the massacre of 16 individuals 9 of them children in Afghanistan they are always focused on the soldier who allegedly committed the massacre. They start by saying “there are no excuses” for the massacre..and then they spend the next 5 minutes bringing attention to numerous deployments, his character before he was in the service, dissapointments in his life etc etc. They all seem to be helping this man build an insanity plea. NEVER EVER AND I MEAN NEVER EVER HAS ONE MSM HOST OR GUEST FOCUSED ON WHO THE PEOPLE AND THE CHILDREN ARE THAT THIS MAN ALLEGEDLY MASSACRED. NOT ONCE HAVE I HEARD A HOST OR GUEST FOCUS ON THE PEOPLE IN AFGHANISTAN WHO WERE KILLED. No pictures of the children massacred. Nothing TELLING. Not MSNBC’s Al Sharpton, not Ed Schultz, not Mika of Joe Scarborough, not Diane Rehm, not CNN, not Fox etc. NO one. Talk about dehumanization in our military….dehumanization in the US media. Focus on the children killed, the adults, no names. Total absence
#14 - Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:57 AM EDT