TO THE EDITOR:
This week the United States continued its military campaign across the globe, targeting militants in Somalia with drones and targeting ISIS terrorists with air strikes in Iraq. The U.S. bombing missions come just a month after a global outcry demonized Israel’s airstrike campaign in the Gaza Strip; I wonder why Americans are not similarly upset at our government’s borderless military action. With varying effectiveness, Israel and the United States both targeted designated terrorist groups bent on causing destruction and inflicting civilian death. Where are the calls to end the military occupation in Iraq?
Flawed United States military policy exercised by former president George W. Bush left Iraq in utter disarray, and the repercussions of recent and decades-old Western involvement in the Middle East can be traced all the way to the guns in the hands of ISIS militants. Instead of using a critical eye to examine our mistakes and the complicated decisions at present, we glance at a report of drone attacks in Mogadishu with passivity.
Where is the anger over the persistent foreign policy response of our government that we can bomb our way out of any perceived threat?
Max Levin ’16
Comparative literature
