International Watch |" The United States has become a destructive player in the world."

Source: People's Daily International

The United States often uses force against the outside world under the banner of "humanitarian intervention." The war launched by the United States has not only claimed the lives of a large number of soldiers involved in the war, but also caused countless civilian casualties and property losses, resulting in serious humanitarian disasters.

Statistics show that the United States has only been at war for more than 20 years since its founding. The latest data from the "War Costs" project of the Watson Institute of Brown University in the United States shows that after the "9/11" incident, the "war on terror" carried out by the United States caused a total of 929,000 military and civilian deaths, including 387,000 civilians and about 38 million displaced.

Human rights expert at American University – "The United States seems to have been at war, arbitrarily depriving large numbers of lives"

"I started shooting, old men, women, children, buffalo and everything ... I'm just killing people... I shot them..." Varnado Simpson, an American veteran who fought in the Vietnam War, recalled in the documentary "Four Hours in My Lai Village." The documentary follows the atrocities of the U.S. 11th Infantry Brigade in massacring Vietnamese civilians and causing a huge humanitarian catastrophe.

In the early spring of 1968, the protracted Vietnam War entered its bloodiest phase. In Quang Nghi Province, central Vietnam, a U.S. company received intelligence and launched a surprise attack on the village of My Lai, intending to wipe out the "North Vietnamese guerrillas" lurking there. The soldiers were ordered to "kill everything alive in the village," but the U.S. army encountered only unarmed women and children in My Lai. According to official Vietnamese statistics, more than 500 civilians were killed in this massacre alone. The U.S. government tried to cover up the atrocity, but a year and a half after the incident, the incident was exposed.

"Every month, 'My Lai Village' suffers." Nick Tours, author of the book "Extermination", about the Vietnam War, wrote that the My Lai village massacre was special only because it "appeared on the front page of the newspaper." As former US Secretary of State John Kerry said: "The crimes of the US military in Southeast Asia are not independent incidents, but commonplace, and the military is known and known to everyone from top to bottom." ”

The Los Angeles Times has disclosed that in addition to the Massacre in My Lai Village, there were at least 320 other massacres of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, and almost all U.S. troops involved in the war were found to have committed similar acts. According to the Vietnamese government, about 1.4 million Vietnamese soldiers were killed and as many as 2 million civilians died in the Vietnam War. The war waged by the United States has also had a spillover effect, causing harm to other countries. For example, during the Vietnam War, the U.S. military spread the fighting to neighboring countries such as Cambodia and Laos in the name of blocking the "Ho Chi Minh Trail", killing and injuring more than 500,000 innocent civilians.

After World War II, the United States also launched or participated in many wars abroad, such as the Korean War, the Kosovo War, the Afghan War, and the Iraq War, which not only took the lives of a large number of soldiers participating in the war, but also caused extremely serious civilian casualties and property losses, resulting in huge humanitarian disasters. "The United States seems to be at war all the time, arbitrarily taking a lot of its life — the worst human rights violation." Jeffrey Buckman, an expert on human rights at American University, emphasized.

U.S. Anti-War Group Report - "Over the past 20 years, the United States and its allies have dropped an average of more than 40 bombs and missiles a day, causing countless casualties."

After the end of the Cold War, under the guise of so-called "humanitarian intervention," the United States instigated color revolutions in Eastern Europe, used the "9/11" incident to push forward the "Greater Middle East Democracy Plan" in the Middle East, and even did not hesitate to subvert the governments of Sovereign Countries such as Iraq and Libya by force, support the Syrian rebels, and bring serious humanitarian disasters to many countries.

In the 1990s, the INTERVENTION of the US-led NATO in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia directly intensified the country's ethnic contradictions, and the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina and kosovo resulted in nearly 300,000 deaths and nearly 3 million refugees. Mitrovich, a professor of political science at the University of Belgrade in Serbia, scolded: "What the United States is doing in Kosovo is a contempt for international law and a laughingstock for the international community. ”

Research by Monica Duffy Toft, a professor of international politics at Tufts University in the United States, shows that the United States conducted more than 188 military interventions in the 25 years from 1992 to 2017 as many as in the 40 years from 1948 to 1991. According to a report released by the U.S. anti-war group Code Pink, "The United States and its allies have dropped an average of more than 40 bombs and missiles a day over the past 20 years, causing countless casualties." ”

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When the US military causes a large number of civilian deaths and injuries in other countries, it often whitewashes it with "accidental injuries". The US media "intercepted" website to record an incident in which the US military "accidentally injured" civilians in Yemen. In the early morning hours of January 29, 2017, U.S. Navy SEALs raided a remote village in Yemen's Albaida province under the cover of helicopter gunships, after which helicopter gunships began sweeping the villages on the hillside. Entire villages were bombed, more than a dozen buildings were attacked, and stone huts where villagers slept were razed, killing 6 women and 10 children. It turned out that there were no militants hidden here, but the United States only covered it up under the pretext of "mistaken injury".

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy has acknowledged that U.S.-sponsored wars have thrown yemen and many other countries into turmoil, and that "almost every civilian death has the mark of the United States."

Saudi Arabian media – "The United States is always criticizing other countries for committing so-called 'humanitarian crimes' and refusing to look in the mirror"

"From the Vietnam War to the recent 'war on terror,' the United States has committed war crimes and killed countless civilians as a result, causing a serious humanitarian catastrophe." Chris Hedges, who worked for The New York Times, recently wrote: "Most of these victims have nothing to do with 9/11 and are bearing the cost of losing their lives, loved ones and homes." Is anyone responsible for this? Does anyone speak up for them? Historically, Hudges said, those prosecuted for war crimes have been prosecuted for losing the war and being an adversary of the United States. In the United States, these warmakers are not being punished as they deserve.

James Palmer, deputy editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, said that the U.S. military has committed many war atrocities, but almost no one is responsible for it, which is a signal that American soldiers can rape and murder in other countries, and the US leaders will do their best to protect them. "The arrogance, racism, and connivance of the U.S. government to atrocities negate any effort to repair America's reputation around the globe."

"The United States has become a destructive player in the world." The US "Foreign Affairs" magazine reflected that after the Cold War, the United States should have played an active role in responding to the common challenges of mankind, but instead, Washington adopted a strategy that put military means first, and established a hegemonic system that is conducive to the immediate interests of the minority but endangers the long-term interests of the majority. "The United States has waged or participated in wars in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, killing thousands of civilians, undermining the laws and institutions that have stabilized the world, and making the American people more insecure."

Saudi Arabia's Arab News website states: "The United States is always criticizing other countries for committing so-called 'humanitarian crimes' and refusing to look in the mirror itself." In a commentary on the 20th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, the New York Times said: "20 years ago, politicians exaggerated external threats to meet the need for retaliation. The United States waged arrogant wars to transform the world, and in fact the terrorists we spawned were worse than we had to face in the first place. ”