Posted on 08/04/2015 1:50:51 PM PDT by lbryce
An explanatory news aggregation website sponsored by corporate giant Walmart has accused the United States of engaging in major war crimes against North Korea and defended the rogue nation in a recent blog post.
Max Fisher, a writer for the Walmart-sponsored site Vox.com, accused America of doing “something terrible” and “evil” to North Korea in a recent blog post that also defends the DPRK’s anti-American attitudes.
“The US did in fact do something terrible, even evil to North Korea, and while that act does not explain, much less forgive, North Korea’s many abuses since, it is not totally irrelevant either,” Fisher wrote.
“The US dropped more bombs on North Korea than it had dropped in the entire Pacific theater during World War II,” Fisher goes on to explain.” This carpet bombing, which included 32,000 tons of napalm, often deliberately targeted civilian as well as military targets, devastating the country far beyond what was necessary to fight the war. Whole cities were destroyed, with many thousands of innocent civilians killed and many more left homeless and hungry.”
While Fisher acknowledges that many historians view North Korea as already having been on the path to hating America, despite the bombings, he still maintains that they were problematic.
“Yet even if the bombing did not cause North Korea’s obsessive hatred of America and Americans, it did help to focus it,” Fisher writes.
“Here was a real American crime that everyone could see for themselves, and indeed had likely affected them personally,” he adds. “How could it not be formative?”
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Sounds rather intense and very difficult to perceive. Walmart through its own blog validating this alleged attack on North Korea, accusing US of War Crimes defending North Korea.
We are living in rather insane times.
Maybe they ought to try peddling their stuff in North Korea.
Why, WHY do these companies get political? Where will I shop? Where?
We should’ve taken North Korea out in the 1950’s. Wouldn’t be the problem that it is today.
I never thought about that. I guess the left will at some point charge the USA for war crimes. They are getting everything else they want.
I am surprised obie has yet apologized to Japan in public.
Obie is black, no blacks in Japan....he doesn’t care.
You have a valid point!!!
I can’t hardly believe there are still American leftists who can defend North Korea with a straight face.
The store they opened in N Korea isn’t doing too well.
Regardless, WalMart haters gonna hate.
And yet North Korea and then China held the U. S. at bay, until a cease-fire was agreed to.
Strange the total destruction of the North, and yet we didn't walk in and claim victory.
Nut jobs one and all...
Half the nation, the fellow patriots of those slaughtered if you will, in the South are still our best friends to this day.
Forgot to mention that. There is a large Christian presence there.
When someone starts a war, which the North Koreans did by invading South Korea, what happens to them afterward is strictly their own fault.
We need to get rid of this concept of “war crimes” and go back to “winners” and “losers.”
“Why, WHY do these companies get political? Where will I shop? Where?”
No link to ‘offending’ site!
Is this just another ‘Walmart-bashing’ internet click-bait?
It’s not WalMart’s blog, it’s just one of the many many sites they advertise on.
When Wal Mart CEO Doug McMillon spoke out against religious freedom legislation in Arkansas earlier this year to protect people and business owners who object to gay marriage from the fate of the bakers in Oregon, I think we found out where the company stands on the First Amendment.
The Wal Mart CEO’s pressure and that of other business leaders like the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce led to the Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson and the Republican controlled legislature backing down on First Amendment protection for religious objectors to gay marriage and homosexuality.
Too bad they didn’t provide some proof WalMart owns VOX.
Just writing it does not make it so.
They didn’t get political. Vox is an ad supported site, Walmart is one of the many companies that buys ads there (and many other places). There’s really no good reason to tie the story to Walmart, other than everybody enjoying hating Walmart. The real headline is “odd site that has a long history of saying weird stuff...”
“We should’ve taken North Korea out in the 1950’s. Wouldn’t be the problem that it is today.”
We did ... but the U.N. negotiated a truce. N.K. was destroyed but they still had China backing them.
Might even have avoided Nam...
I should have said sponsored, not owned
but there is no proof I can find that wal mart “ sponsors “ VOX either
Good to know.
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