Updated on 2/26/24 at 7:44 am EST
An active duty US airman set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC to protest the US-backed slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
According to Talia Jane, an independent journalist who obtained the video of the incident, the airman, who was identified as Aaron Bushnell, 25, died of his wounds late Sunday night.
According to Axios, a video of the incident shows the airman saying he would “no longer be complicit in genocide” and that he was about to “engage in an extreme act of protest.”
“But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal,” Bushnell said right before lighting himself on fire.
While on fire, he repeatedly shouted, “Free Palestine.” He burned for about one minute before law enforcement officers extinguished the flames. According to Jane, one officer initially drew his gun on the airman as he burned.
Washington DC’s Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department said in a post on X that the airman was transported to a hospital with “critical life-threatening injuries.” The department also said the officers who extinguished the fire were members of the US Secret Service.
The dramatic protest comes as the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza by the Israeli campaign is approaching 30,000, and over 69,000 have been wounded. About two-thirds of the casualties are women and children.
The International Court of Justice has ruled that it’s “plausible” Israel is committing genocide and decided to take up the case brought to the court by South Africa. Despite the massive civilian casualty rate and international pressure, the US continues to provide unconditional support for the slaughter.
Genocide Joe Biden belongs not on the presidential ticket, but in the dock at The ICC. He has provided the weapons that do the actual killing of the tens of thousands of Palestinian mostly women and children that are the principal targets of this Israeli GENOCIDE that will live in INFAMY for decades to come. May G-D have mercy on their souls and pity on their curssed kin.
If you dislike Joe’s polices on Israel, you are going to hate Trump’s polices.
You keep posting that stupid shit, Tim — as if the prospect of a different genocidaire-in-chief somehow ameliorates the genocidal behavior of the current one.
You’re a poor propagandist.
I keep posting it because it is true. Trump will be green light anything Israel will do. And he is more likely to go to war with Iran than Biden.
It never happened on his watch.
You repeat the same lies the Dems always lob at Republicans.
What never happen on his watch?
Is that a real question?…
Ok how about the debacle in Afghanistan.. Or the proxy war in Ukraine.. Genocide in Palestine.
Enough??
Trumped dropped more bombs on Afghanistan in 2018 than had been dropped in any year in over a decade. Lessened rules of engagement for both airstrikes and drone strikes to make killing easier. Trump provided weapons to Ukraine that Obama wouldn’t. And Trump emboldened Israel more than any president in my lifetime. I don’t see much difference and I see no reason to think there will be any difference if he wins another term. Again, it might be the better of two evils, but it is plenty evil.
Mr. Trump stepped up drone attacks, more than Obama.
And he lessened the rules of engagement for using them. Those 10 people getting murdered by Biden’s drone strike during the Afghan withdrawal could still be alive if Trump hadn’t eliminated a step in the process of authorizing a drone to be used. But he wanted to make killing easier.
Is this like the second time in the last 7 days that we have agreed? Maybe the end of the world is coming.
Nothing BUT nothing compares to what’s happening to Gaza under Biden… NOTHING!
I agree. But stop pretending Trump was an innocent bystander while he was president. He participated fully and willingly with our ongoing belligerence everywhere.
Who is pretending?.. Trump has been backfooted from the start by a deep state cabal that has seized the government ( as well as our economic engine ) by dubious means.
And I think he’ll do better this time.
Ok?
Did the deep state cabal force him to lessen the rules of engagement in every conflict we were involved in? Did they make him drone more than Obama? Sanction more than damn near anyone? Did they tell him he wanted a military parade? Did they have to coax him into being belligerent towards Iran and dropping out of the JCPOA? I continuously list things that Trump did, and it would seem most of them were done uncoerced with some of them even being campaign promises.
Are you listening to what comes out of his mouth to think he will “do better this time”? First order of business? Fix the rigged election. 2nd order of business? Get revenge on those who didn’t fix the rigged election. 3rd order of business? Depends on who kisses his ass the most.
Ok? No. That’s why I keep replying to you.
Yes he was badly served his advisors – some who were family members.
The first order of business is ours, the voting public.
The second order of business is a settling of accounts with those who rigged the election and wrecked Trump’s first admin. – this is assuming we all do our part to throw the bums out as the first order of business.
The third order of business is watch in cringeworthy amusement as the neocons attempt at repairing relations with the man they wronged and abandoned.
Pass the popcorn!
That’s kind of admitting that he was exceptionally weak, or he just didn’t give of fuck of what was actually going on. I do like harping on his decision to lessen the rules of engagement in our conflicts he inherited. Was that the Don or his advisors? Sure, sounds a lot like the Don. Like his plan for executing drug dealers and such. Yes indeed, pass the popcorn.
I admit that under that tough exterior is a very vulnerable and sensitive man. A man who only wants to please those around him and yes perhaps a bit naive as to world of politics but basically an idealist who believes our best days are ahead of us.
A man who wants to be loved…
So c’mon and let’s all show him some love this November and vote for Trump to make America great again and loved again.
Are you with me?
Cute. I can only hope you weren’t serious.
“Trump will be green light anything Israel will do”
How would that be different? Or have you been bamboozled into thinking that when the Biden administration feigns concern over Israel’s brutality that the “unwavering”, “ironclad” commitment ceases?
Mr. Trump moved the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Biden tried under George H Bush.
The US has been at war with Iran since 1979. It’s just mostly remained a low-intensity war.
Trump did escalate it with e.g. abrogating the JCPOA, the Soleimani assassination, etc. And would likely go right back to pushing toward full-blown war.
But Biden has maintained the Trump approach on that, rather than reverting to the ever so partial and tentative moves toward peace that Obama made.
I would go back further, to 1953. Biden has maintained he Trump approach, adding the campaign lie that he would renew the JCPOA. Climate? Mr. Biden has signed more leases than Trump did. Liars.
Tim Burns seems to be an avid supporter of Trump who posts stuff posing as a Biden supporter to present Biden and Biden supporters as being stupid, cruel, and evil.
His presentation is flawless, but also redundant, since Biden reinforces that point very dramatically on a regular basis.
1. My presentations are rarely flawless, I’m not so good on typing, spelling or grammar.
2. I certainly not a Trump supporter.
What you are is BUSTED!… Hey you’re pretty good, you really had me going there but look Trump doesn’t need the help. We’re winning!
Trump is going to have the entire DC establishment against him though, so even if his policies are worse they’ll ultimately be less effective than Biden’s.
US Secret Service guarding DC Israeli embassy…?!
The cops were pointing their guns at him and the first responders who had to scream at them to get a fire extinguisher
I looked it up. Its part of their job to protect foreign missions/embassies in DC
https://www.secretservice.gov/protection/places#:~:text=The%20Uniformed%20Division%20officers%20assigned%20to%20the%20Foreign%20Missions%20Branch,the%20general%20public%20as%20well.
Thanks….! Hopefully they don’t pick and choose embassies to protect….! BTW – They didn’t protect RFK Jr when he asked for it repeatedly…?!
Yup. True
They did a bang up job for Venezuela.
Reminds me of the incident some many moons ago when the American embassy was being guarded in the Philippines by filipinnos during Marco’s time. There was a report of a bomb threat to the embassy, and the embassy made a request for extra protection. The Filippions sent over a fire truck. sic.
Here is a link to a Jerusalem Post article that shows the actual video US Airman Aaron Bushnell made before he immolated himself in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC to protest the US sponsored Israeli genocide in Gaza. I suspect the video will be taken down in a few hours.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-788811
I think it’s already removed. The only thing I saw was a picture of him from a distance standing in attention. I suspect this will not be made public and if they do mention it, they would just say “he committed suicide.” He was a brave and principled young man, unlike the rest of us. We suck.
He went out standing at attention. He went to his God like a soldier. About the only hero in the ranks.
Rest In Peace.. And justice!
Amen
He obviously believed in something very strongly. I’m not a believer and I always say EVERYONE is an agnostic. I can’t say that about this guy.
It wasn’t “mental distress” but moral distress he was in.
I feel him.
Graphic:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/17i/fpal2-s.jpg
Man, put a warning up. I did not want to look at that.
Sorry. I thought it would be obvious what it was. I saw it last night and it haunted my dreams.
That’s why I try to avoid such things. My insomnia doesn’t need any help.
Face reality.
I know what reality is. I don’t need to see it.
Thanks.
Sorry again.
All the while, he shouted, “Free Palestine!”.
Comments section at JP is a genocide-denying partisan mocking mess.
Of course.
True.But JP was the only site I could find that had not scrubbed the video of Aaron Bushnell’s protest this morning. As far as I know the video has now been censored by the MSM along with any mention of Aaron Bushnell’s religion.
His religion, to me, has nothing to do with his actions. Many years ago, a monk did the same thing, bringing attention, in an instrumental fashion, as did the pictures of the naked girl whose skin was burned off from napalm, as did the picture of the South Vietnam military person shooting another person in the head. A clabber bell to wake people up.
Caitlin Johnstone is right on the mark: https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/02/26/the-most-american-thing-that-has-ever-happened/ Cops point their guns at a man burning up.
Yes. Shoot the guy who set himself on fire in protest against genocide. That’s our story.
You couldn’t make it up — and you don’t have to.
Gawd.
Cops do it a lot: shoot suicidal people, even on suicide 911 calls. Person is literally alone in an apartment. BLAM.
True, but even for a half-bright cop, pulling a gun on a person actually engulfed in flame is unusually stupid. And outrageous.
No they don’t shoot suicidal people unless they have a gun and are threatening to use on someone.
It literally almost took place in story above. You really are a complete contrarian.
No it did not “almost take place”. Just because a policemen pull out his gun does not mean he was planning to shoot the guy.
Yes, it does. You are taught not to take out your gun unless you’re going to use it, and not to point it at anyone unless you intend to shoot them. Stop spewing lies here.
Pulling gun — why?
Yes, because our boys in blue never shoot unarmed citizens. Just ask them.
And I’m not surprised that you tock a cheap shot at out police men and woman.
You mean the army of the rich, aka pigs? Can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t like them.
Stop sales job. Not the time or place. A poor young man too sensitive for the bloidy times we live in, died. He leaves his parents to mourn him. He must have felt so helpless.
With most of the population being oblivious to the genocide, with geriatric leadership led by the nose by hysterical and loud world-ordering fanatics, incapable of hearing their own voice. And the utter fools they look like to the rest of the world.
And we all fiddle while the fires have started that may ruin us and the life we cherish.
Death before dishonor. 🇺🇸
What I said was the truth. It’s usually the economically disadvantaged that they shoot. Mostly black folk.
They may be disadvantaged but it’s not economic disadvantage that’s the problem.
Meaning what “Ace”?
It wasn’t our cops. It was some rent-a – pig courtesy of the Zionist entity…
So he’s yours..
Read it. Problem is indicated clearly. Arriving guns out despite no indication anyone else at risk. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/23/calls-when-person-is-suicidal-some-police-try-new-approach/
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen multiple videos of “law enforcement” officers unloading on mentally unstable homeless waving knives though.
Like the guy who was lit up with 16 bullets when he was half naked in the middle of a road.
Very rare Frank. The police are more often than not the first to arrive at an incident. I bet on the average day in the USA literally a 1000 times a policeman is the first to person to give CPR. Sure there are occasionally bad events, they are rare but they make the headlines.
Sure there are occasionally bad events,
Does genocide count?
No, they don’t. One of the most egregious I have ever read, was about the young man who was having a mental breakdown. His mother called for assistance. The police beat the ambulance there, and were trying to calm the young man. Another officer shows up, says, “I don’t have time for this”, then shoots the young man.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/10/cops-opened-fire-on-suicidal-man-like-cowboys-from-a-john-wayne-movie-new-lawsuit-claims/
Of course, he did have a gun. 🙄
It was the cop who was having the mental breakdown.
“I don’t need guns, I need fire extinguishers!” Said the man who was trying to help airman Bushnell. Exactly……..
Are there US boots on the ground in Gaza, “assisting” Israel in the genocide?
Whether there are US boots on the ground or not, the genocide in Gaza would not be possible without American support, assistance, and diplomatic cover.
That I know. I wondered if he knew that it was more direct.
Probably not, at least not from anything related to his job. He was a software techie, working recently as a developer. He wouldn’t have been privy to any non-public information.
You never know.
He was in Devops and could have had access to materials.
Anything’s possible, but you’re just making things up.
No he was in Dev ops reported elsewhere.
Yes, he was a software developer. The chances that an Air Force software developer in San Antonio, Texas, whose initial training was in cybersecurity, would have any special information about deployment of ground forces in Israel are very, very small.
What you’re making up is reasons why he might have such special knowledge, a possibility that you also made up.
Speculating is not “making things up”.
And he was in devops. Biden deployed airmen in January to help with Israeli targets. That is not saying he went, but not wanting to be complicit may have had multiple layers. I’m sorry it offends you to contemplate a larger picture.
BIDEN ADMIN DEPLOYED AIR FORCE TEAM TO ISRAEL TO ASSIST WITH TARGETS, DOCUMENT SUGGESTS
Guidance for officers deployed to Israel appears to show the U.S. military providing intelligence for airstrikes in Gaza.
https://www.sott.net/article/487875-Biden-admin-deployed-air-force-team-to-Israel-to-assist-with-targets-document-suggests
https://breakingdefense.com/2021/05/air-force-devstar-agile-software-development-and-innovation-for-the-b-21-bomber/
In other words he may have had access to information that you have access to. Are you in the US Air Force?
No. And I certainly don’t have access to military software nor do I need to worry about being deployed to Gaza in the airforce to target children.
Could he have? Sure.
But any member of the US armed forces, with or without access to any classified details, can know that the US war machine is backing Israel and decide that that’s not something he or she can support or be involved in. Bushnell took that a step further, but it’s not obvious that he did so on the basis of any “inside information.”
There were admissions early on said to be assisting search for hostages. Haven’t heard anything since the early weeks though.
Right. “Assisting search” is a euphemism for what?
I saw pictures of big military airplanes unloading stuff.
Aaron’s facebook before the video:
“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”
What a nut job. At least he did not hurt anyone else.
Unlike everyone else in the US Armed Forces.
Actually, he’s anything but a nutjob. He should be honored. But it’s good that you’re concerned about others getting hurt. Of course, if it was someone who wasn’t worthy of living in your eyes (Palestinians) the old “collateral damage” excuse is always there to be used.
That guy had mental problems. You are a big supporters of the Gaza terrorists, would you kill yourself to promote your position? Of course not.
I don’t have his courage or conviction. I admit that. And I’m not a “supporters” of Hamas. I’ve made that point repeatedly. I’m also not a supporter of Israel’s ongoing genocide on the Palestinians in Gaza. That would be you.
Even if you were a supporter of Hamas:
Palestinians have a legal right to armed struggle
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/7/20/palestinians-have-a-legal-right-to-armed-struggle/
I agree. I’m not a supporter of Hamas because they are an advocate of Shiara law. But like other governments that have extreme ideologies, I also think they have a right to protect their population. I just want the Palestinians to have better representation.
I would like self determination, no matter.
I was a big supporter of the Viet Cong and the guy that burned himself then shocked many people into opposing US genocide of Asians,
The only terrorists in Gaza is the IDF and it’s enablers.
Count yourself in.
That’s it, you POS, banned … I can take nonsense, but disrespect to a man with more morality in his little finger than you will ever attain is just too much.
Yeah, this is a low point even for him, and that’s saying a lot.
He was obviously completely morally committed to something, and wanted that thing noticed. I hope it has the effect he sought.
Killing oneself to prove a point is the very definition of being a nut job. He will accomplish noting by his action except hurting his loved ones.
He may or may not have had mental problems.
He brought more attention to and sympathy for his cause by killing himself in public than you or I do by posting our opinions on the Internet. Whether the increased bang for buck was worth it would be a question for him … and he can’t answer that question, at least to the people in this world.
Mental problems or not, he is a nut job for killing himself just to get a day of attention. Will it make a difference in long run? No. Like most suicides, it is a very selfish act with no concern for the loved ones left behind.
I do agree our comments don’t matter, because to be honest who reads them?
BTW, do you know what the readership numbers are for antiwar.com? Based on the number of comments, I don’t think it is large.
Or maybe you just can’t comprehend that someone can have such strong beliefs. And if I was his family, I’d be extremely proud of him and would look at him as someone throwing their body on a hand grenade to saver others. You don’t know shit as to whether it did good or not. Maybe, just maybe, it made a few light bulbs click on. But you can hope it was for naught if you like.
Are you truly going to tell me that say if your son did something like this you would be proud? I think you, like any other normal person, would be saying, why? Why would he kill himself? For what?
And your statement, with the double maybes is correct. Highly unlikely this is going to change anything.
Yes, I would be extremely proud regardless of what you think.
With all due respect, it’s the president who is baking cookies for Bibi who has the mental problems, along with ethical, moral, and assorted other problems.
So now you show that you’re so clueless that you can’t tell the difference between being selfless and being selfish, to complete opposites. You must be the most self-centered person in the world to think that someone sacrificing himself for a cause is selfish. It is you who has mental problems, and I’d say pretty severe ones.
The only ones it hurts are warmongers like you.
I hope he’s just considered a nut job.
Shame on you
Ok would you prefer the term mentally challenge as oppose to nut job?
My God.
I’m guessing he was a muslim. I hope he’s enjoying those 40 virgins or whatever.
Another racist Kyivan
Proving neo nazi supremacy ideology.
“Muslim” does not refer to a race. Consult a dictionary if you have one. You calling me a Nazi?
Muslims are indeed racialized by people like you. The whole Gaza thing is, on a certain level, a racial pogrom. So the shoe fits.
Ok, bigot then,
Happy?
Given Aaron‘s name it’s likely he was Jewish
The name “Aaron” has been among the top 100 most popular names for American boys, almost all of whom are non-Jewish, for a good 50 years.
I know some Packer fans…..
Thomas – I might be mistaken but every Aaron I‘ve known has been Jewish.
I’ve known a number of Aarons, and I can’t recall a single one that I’ve personally known being Jewish. They were mostly midwest Pentecostal kids. Names like Jacob, Aaron, Samuel, Ezra, etc. are a big evangelical thing. Two kids at the Pentecostal church I went to in high school were named Judah and Israel, and they were (and looked) about as Jewish as Reinhard Heydrich.
Thanks for the clarification. I don‘t have much contact with Evangelical Christians.
I’ve known a number of Aarons, and I can’t recall a single one that I’ve personally known being Jewish. They were mostly midwest Pentecostal kids. Names like Jacob, Aaron, Samuel, Ezra, etc. are a big evangelical thing. Two kids at the Pentecostal church I went to in high school were named Judah and Israel, and they were (and looked) about as Jewish as Reinhard Heydrich.
I’ve known a number of Aarons, and I can’t recall a single one that I’ve personally known being Jewish. They were mostly midwest Pentecostal kids. Names like Jacob, Aaron, Samuel, Ezra, etc. are a big evangelical thing. Two kids at the Pentecostal church I went to in high school were named Judah and Israel, and they were (and looked) about as Jewish as Reinhard Heydrich.
Aaron Rodgers was raised a christian,
So was Aaron Paul (father a Baptist Minister).
Aaron Gordon claims to be part Osage and played basketball for a Catholic high school.
Aaron Eckhart was brought up Mormon.
Aaron Burr was the son of a Presbyterian minister and studied theology at Princeton before moving on to law, revolution, and politics.
If I had to bet, I’d bet there are at least 100 times as many non-Jewish as Jewish Aarons in the United States.
Aaron is a Muslim Boy name with Arabic origins. Aaron name meaning is “Exalted One, Enlightened or High Mountain”. It is a short name with 5 letters, and the popularity rank of the name Aaron is 191.
https://hamariweb.com/names/muslim/arabic/boy/aaron-meaning_623#:~:text=Aaron%20is%20a%20Muslim%20Boy,the%20name%20Aaron%20is%20191.
Some people say Arabic, some say Hebrew, some say Greek. It’s a popular boy’s name in the US among people of all religions, including no religion, and in and of itself tells no one anything about the religion of the person bearing it.
That would make sense.
Jesus was after all.
Bye asswipe…
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His name is Aaron Bushnell and according to this article he has died. Rest in peace good man.
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/1708931509-man-dies-after-protest-self-immolation-outside-israeli-embassy-in-washington-dc
I really can’t conjure words. God Bless Airman Bushnell. A righteous man.
If you believe in God and heaven and hell. Then Bushnell is not going to get God’s blessing, but instead burn in hell’s fire. According to the Christians view point, not sure about other religion.
According to some Christians’ viewpoint, true. But Christianity is a pretty broad religious descriptor full of competing sects with widely varying beliefs.
In terms of emerging doctrine, it wasn’t until the fifth century that Augustine promulgated a general Christianity-based condemnation of suicide in The City of God.
These days, the Catholic catechism explicitly does NOT condemn those who commit suicide to hell: “We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance. The Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives.”
If there is a god, why wouldn’t he embrace someone who took his own life protesting the senseless deaths of so many others? But you are correct in the sense that most people who believe in a god believe him to be a sadistic prick.
Bill Astore’s substack:
Airman Sets Himself on Fire to Protest Genocide in Gaza
Mainstream Media Outlets Say No One Was Harmed in the Israeli Embassy while Denying the Reality of Genocide
Mainstream media outlets are human trash heaps.
So quit calling them mainstream— they are propaganda outlets with ever shrinking viewer numbers.
I’ve had 2 posts removed here today, and I’m hoping the Supreme Court rules in my favor.
LISTEN LIVE: Supreme Court hears arguments at 10AM on if social media companies can censor you for political speech
https://therightscoop.com/listen-live-supreme-court-hears-arguments-at-10am-on-if-social-media-companies-can-censor-you-for-political-speech/
This is not a social media company. And if the SCOTUS case comes down the way you seem to think it should, you won’t be commenting here anymore because no one will be.
The last time section 230 was hanging by a thread, The Hill hit the cancel button on a comment section with more than 10,000 user/commenters in an instant.
IIRC, it was 2011 when I was asked to moderate comments here.
At that particular point, the board was split between doing away with comments altogether, or keeping them if they could find some schmuch who was willing to moderate. And I was the only schmuck who accepted.
There’s no doubt in my mind that Antiwar.com will do away with comments if the state starts telling it what kind of comments it may, may not, must, or must not offer a platform for.
Thank you for accepting. I learn so much from the articles on this website, but, I also learn from comments and it would be a shame to not allow readers to share thoughts and discuss articles.
Glad to be of service!
yes that would be a shame
Many news sites have already dropped the commenting part of their web site.
Well let’s hope that doesn’t happen. We’re headed for American samizdat as the only outlet for resistance besides immolating yourself.
Section 230 should be repealed unless social media companies act like utilities and stop censoring, including their disgusting algorithms. If they want the protections of section 230, then they have no right to censor anything. This is not about this site, but it is about social media sites.
Even if Section 230 was repealed, the First and Fifth Amendments would still exist.
Thomas Knapp is rigorous and strict in his deleting comments that are outside the Antiwar guidelines. He has blocked a few of my comments, but it’s his ballgame and we should respect his rules.
My observation is he is remarkably impartial, even if I don’t always agree.
Rip Aaron Bushnell, our brother and a hero to Palestine.
So Airman Bushnell did what how many other U.S. Service men are thinking? What will it take for U.S. leaders to realize they are sending our Servicemen over to fight for a wholly ignoble cause; one that most do not care for in any shape or form. Our military people did not sign up to do genocide. As a member of a military family myself, I totally absolutely condem our Country’s active support and complicity in Israel’s genocide in progress. (I’m not going to set myself on fire, but….) I implore our government to stop the crap right now. Yes, I is seriously pissed off.
Genocide Joe and posse has got to go, and STOP supporting Israel in its crimes.
They don’t care. They’re evil, despise America and despise Americans.
A tragedy and what a brave young man. RIP.
one officer initially drew his gun on the airman as he burned
figures.
Another dark day for the indispensable nation….
This nation has come a long way down on the road to obscenity. Biden is a clear apologist for war criminals and by shipping them the means to continue committing war crimes, has made all of us complicit in Israeli war crimes.
Rumor is that Aaron, as part of his computer duties, was ordered to help the IDF in its ethnic cleansing-genocide campaign.
I respect anyone who sacrifices themselves for what they believe in,but what did this accomplish?
What did Masada accomplish ?
Only time will tell what it accomplishes.
The immediate result is applause from people who already agreed with him and perhaps some embarrassment to the regime that one of its troops would oppose its policies enough to publicly go that far.
Longer term, it might change a few minds both among the general public and members of the military, the latter of whom might take action — probably not the same action, but at least publicly speaking out, filing for conscientious objector status, etc.
It gave millions of people in the Near East a bit of hope that there are people in America who aren’t crazed genocidal imperialist maniacs. As an American I find that excellent. There has been a massive outpouring there of love and respect for Aaron.
We need a mass suicide like this in the military to get the attention of Congress. Otherwise this was a just a bleep.
Other news says he is an air force pilot…! A lot more valuable than an airman…!