Ted Rall: On ISIS Burning and the US Burning of the Others

by Ted Rall
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Written by Ted Rall

On ISIS. Reader discretion advised.

aNewDomain — Americans were shocked by the Islamic State (ISIS) video that depicted its grisly execution by immolation of a captured Jordanian pilot. But the United States burned many, many Iraqi civilians to death with white phosphorus bombs in 2004. Did this bother you, too. Looking at our own crimes is hardest of all.

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Isis cartoon: Ted Rall

For aNewDomain, I’m Ted Rall.

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