Should Nato Kill Human Shields

In the book “The disability rights movement” I learned the history and process people with disabilities have been going through in order to obtain an equality of rights in the United States. The book was written by Doris Zames Fleisher and her sister Frieda Zames as a way of raising awareness of the reality of people with disabilities. Frieda Zames an activist in favor of the American disabilities act, wrote this book to tell the story of civil rights movement and to make people aware of the struggles that people with disabilities go through at the same time raising the word for equality. The book demonstrates how grievances regarding medical issues can be addressed in a democratic society by giving examples such as the life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As a significant figure in this movement, Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president with disabilities, who contracted polio eleven years before he became president. He was a significant figure in the movement because he served as an example of the capabilities a person with a disabilities can have. He was also an advocate of

For our purposes, we will use the Title 22 of the US Code, Section 2656f(d), to define terrorism. It defines terrorism as “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents” (Central Intelligence Agency, 2013). Examples of terrorism persist on a near daily basis around the world. Unstable countries, such as Afghanistan and Syria, deal with terrorist attacks on a constant basis. The common thread of these attacks is deliberate targeting of civilian populations in order to achieve political objectives. The best known and largest example are

As seen from the eyes of an American soldier, Chris Kyle, a sniper in the Iraq War, “The streets were covered with splinters and various debris… Metal shields blocked most of the storefronts…” (Source A). Just like in most wars, many towns and cities targeted in the Iraq war were destroyed as an effort to break the will of the people or the economy in that area, in hopes of a US led , coalition victory. These destructive raids on cities not only crumple infrastructure, they kill innocent civilians who had nothing to do with the war. The innocent killing of civilians has increased since WWI, the first of the modern wars where civilians were majorly targeted. Since WWI, the ratio of civilian to soldier deaths has risen dramatically. The ratio during WWI was 1 civilian per 9 soldiers, since then, the ratio has flipped to an alarming 9 civilians

The terrorism towards Muslim-Americans pales in comparison to the war in the Middle East. During 9/11, al-Qaeda (a terrorist group made of citizens of several countries, not affiliated with any government whatsoever) killed over 3,000 Americans. In return American troops killed, 1.7 million Iraqi civilians, mostly children, in the Iraq war. Americans also killed roughly 3 million Afghan since the early 90’s, before 9/11. Altogether, Americans have afflicted around 7 million in the Middle East. However, the American government hides the death toll and researchers find it difficult to document Arab deaths due to language barriers and information manipulation. Nevertheless, Americans have killed from 6 to 8 million Islam. Not only can many people consider this morally wrong to kill innocent civilians because of a terrorist attack they had nothing to do with, but it also puts a bigger target on America. ISIS and other Islamic terrorist groups will not take too kindly that 7 million of their people killed by Americans. They will seek revenge and do everything in their power to raise their death toll on America (15 Years After

In this as in many other cases, it will be difficult to for the U.S. to claim the moral high ground since just last week an American attack resulted in the death of 230 civilians, including many “babies” in Syria. Granted, poison gas wasn’t used but incendiary bombs are no fun either. In addition another ill-fated American attack several weeks ago in Yemen not only cost the life of a Navy Seal but resulted in the deaths of 23 civilians including an eight year old girl who was a U.S. citizen. Where was the rage then in either case, Mr.

It has been proven, and supported by facts that older, and/or more traditional methods of war such as mortars, or bombs do a larger amount of collateral damage historically, and in modern warfare. Since the September llth, terrorist attacks in 2001 drone strikes have only claimed 8-17% of civilian casualties[Source J]. Speaking of civilian casualties throughout the course of other wars such as World War II 40-67% of fatalities were civilian, and

With nearly 20% of Americans having a disability, the voice of the disability community is growing stronger and louder. The disability community has worked long and hard to ensure that people with disabilities are included in conventional American life and not sent away to institutions such as mental hospitals and nursing homes. While the disability community has made large strides towards equality, there is still much to come until people with disabilities are truly integrated in mainstream life. For example, Scott Randolf, a Vietnam veteran who lost his sight and legs from duty, complains that he is not getting the help he needs. His wheelchair is unable to fit through several doors; if he falls on the floor, he is not able to get up until the ambulance and

Weapons often seem as a necessity when it comes to defense, whether it be self defense or the defense of peace and freedom. In the United States’ war with Iraq, there have been a reported one hundred sixty-five thousand Iraqi civilians were killed between 2003 and 2015. All too often, civilians find themselves victim to war violence.

government has done an excellent job of dividing and conquering civilians by humanitarian versus militaristic imperialism (neocons) in politics. The neocons of the Reagan and Dubya’s administration was a mixture of “military imperialism of Theodore Roosevelt and the idealistic imperialism of Woodrow Wilson” (Johnson, 70). This, as you would imagine is the “Right” or conservative Republican side. On the other dividing side, is what is referred by Johnson and Kumar as the “humanitarian imperialist” (Kumar, 59; Johnson, 71). Even though this phrase has a positive connotation in the word “humanitarian, it also has the word imperialist, which contradict the phrase all together. The Clinton and Obama administrations would be referred to as humanitarian imperialists (Kumar, 59; Johnson, 71). These administrations use rhetoric such as “making the world safe for democracy” (Johnson, 71). These “soft” imperialists as Johnson describes are not in any way anti-war. The neocons “espouse preventative war” (Johnson, 70), while the humanitarians consent to war due to “an act of force of humanitarianism” (Kumar, 59). The September 11th attacks were not due to any sort of humanitarian effort it was an all-out nationalistic effort to go to war with the middle east. As far as politics in America is concerned, these two ideologies are used to gain votes or support the agenda the administration is trying to uphold. Whether it be, America trying to save a country from

The Doctors Without Borders organization claims that the hospital was hit by “a series of aerial bombing raids at approximately 15 minute intervals” between 2:08AM and 3:15AM on October 3. The hospital was in turmoil.

IN the article, It’s Time to End the Islamic State, Aaron MacLean says, “The United States has placed major restrictions on it’s own conduct of a fight that it nonetheless deems to be necessary, this prolonging the violence, putting American troops at risk in operations that achieve indecisive results” (MacLean). This means that when we worry too much about the lives of innocent people in other countries our own men die for little gain if any. “It is clear how striving to prevent civilian casualties is a moral act, but if that effort substantially prolongs the existence of a network making hell for millions - not to mention killing many thousands and generating an enormous refugee crisis, the moral calculus becomes less clear. Is it better to put some civilians out of their misery to stop the suffering for those still alive, or to let them suffer and lose US troops for no gain.

The basic human rights are obviously violated by terrorist groups. The right to live free and without fear is taken from the innocent when a bomb explodes in their midst. This kind of collateral damage is justifiable by terrorists. The innocent become objects rather than human beings. The terrorist to meet their political agendas uses these objects. “In being treated as an object, the innocent victim is worse off than the (alleged) guilty victim. Insofar as the latter is judged to have done a wrong, he is thought of as a human” (Fotion, 1981).

So one of the main questions is, why are we at war with Isis? Well, I have the answer. Isis is a terrorist group that has led attacks against France and Germany. The countries that they lead attacks against are innocent. Isis members kill innocent

The “Stadium attack or attempted attack in Hannover, Germany took place on Tuesday night. Of course they evacuated the people ninety minutes before the kickoff of the soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands. They later claimed that no explosives were found even though French intelligence tipped them off beforehand to a five man cell that was planning to attack that soccer stadium as well as a train station and a bus stop. It since turns out that a paramedic has now gone public [with what he witnessed] and this is being reported by Bild newspaper over in Germany, he said that he directly saw the explosives; he saw the bomb in the ambulance during that whole

According to the UN only 9,759 civilians have died in Afghanistan, but the Lansing medical journal reports that 654,965 civilian casualties occurred in Iraq from 2003 to 2006 so these reports should be taken with a grain of salt. On the pro-Saddam side of the war 76,778 Islamists fighters have died; these deaths were made of security forces, private contractors, Sons of Iraq, and most were made up of other supporters of the regime. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Armed Forces have suffered 4,487 deaths and 32,223 were wounded in action as of May 2012.