To be clear: the Arctic Refuge coastal plain is the most biologically sensitive part of the refuge. It's where polar bears den and the Porcupine caribou herd gives birth. No amount of oil justifies what drilling would do to this place.
Medical workers are essential to a functioning civil society. There is no reason to target them for any other purpose than the destruction of a civilization. It only makes sense as an effort to make an area totally uninhabitable for Lebanese civilians.
An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president.
The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.
Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.
I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.
If you supported this, you are one of the worst people alive right now.
And if you believed this was a targeted anti-terror operation, you are one of the dumbest people alive right now.