Roger L. Simon: Utilitarian Collectivist
In a post called “Collateral Damage,” Roger L. Simon writes
“When you read reports like this, you gasp, even though you know they may be exaggerated or even pure propaganda. But then when you read this, your mind focuses again on the greater reality.”
Yes, the fact that 2.5 years after Bush’s Mayday “Mission Accomplished” speech, Iraq is in such chaos that the USAF is still bombing from the air, and killing 39 civilians – including 18 children, is shocking at first, until one realizes that it’s all for the greater good – er – reality.
We have to keep in mind that the unalienable right to life doesn’t exist for you if you live across water from here, and that yes, somehow, sinking to Saddam’s level makes it all worth while.
Scott Horton is editorial director of Antiwar.com, director of the Libertarian Institute and host of the Scott Horton Show
from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, the 2021 book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism and the 2024 book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, and editor of The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019
and Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He’s conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, investigative reporter Larisa Alexandrovna Horton. He is a fan of, but no relation to the lawyer from Harper’s
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