Awful, Predictable, Tragic Consequences

Editor,

Inhabitants of lands where the interests of U.S. geostrategic planners in particular and corporate globalizers in general are in play are perceived as invisible or nonexistent at best, a nuisance to be "stabilized" or "liberated" at worst.

It is understandable that the objects of such impersonal irrelevancy conclude that their treatment derives from a particular characteristic they all share, like their religion, for example, upon which for the most part people in the Muslim world's identity depends.

U.S. behavior in the Muslim world is just more white privilege in action: the genocide of American Indians, enslavement of African blacks, imperialism in its Central and South American "backyard," and so on.

The institutions and individuals who run American foreign policy don't want to know what the grievances are of the invisible, nonwhite inhabitants of places where their "interests" lie; and of course everyday Americans suffer the awful, predictable, tragic consequences of the awful, predictable, tragic treatment of those people.

Re: "Boston Bombing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty on All Counts" (7/11/2013)