White Phosphorus.
Is this considered a 'chemical weapon' not to be used against civilian populations?
If we're courting further war based on 'morals' and not the likelihood that our punishing military adventures and revenge-seeking will have any strategic effect, perhaps we need to search our souls...
Sadly, we've become immune to dead children; so many killed as US forces and drones target peace and prosperity via military dominance abroad.
Meanwhile, Germany prospers... Go figure.
“The scars of history are really very, very serious, and so we made the decision to bid farewell to the concept of a state based on power and become a merchant state,” Joschka Fischer, the former foreign minister, told me.
In the age of the borderless online world where the nation-state feels like a curious hangover, and at a time when the post-9/11 wars have tired Europeans and Americans of militarism, this rejection of what Fischer called the “machtstaat” (the power state) explains much of Germany’s global popularity. No European nation is less hung-up about sovereignty.
The economy also stirs admiration. German husbandry, suspicion of debt and social consciousness were learned from bitter inflationary history. Germany resisted the profligacy and contempt for risk that produced the meltdown of 2008.
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