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 DPRKs 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 Koreas 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 Koreas 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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Most web ads go through third party brokers that sniff out your cookies for targeted ads. It’s entirely possible most folks won’t see Walmart ads on Vox and that Walmart doesn’t even know they advertise there.
Just the other day on the WWII+70 years thread they had a summary of the cities and destruction from the bombing (mostly firebombs). Most cities were over 50% destroyed. One was listed as 98.5% destroyed. I wonder how they figured that? (”Hey Frank - is that a shed and a barn still standing?”)
Of course today, if one bomb hits a “wedding party” there is a world-wide uproar.
None of this should be seen as countering something you said. They are simply comments on the subject.
I agree, but our refusal to confront North Korea on nukes will cost regional and U. S. lives at some point.
North Korea helps nations like Iran on their efforts. A shipment of missiles was intercepted on it’s way from N.K. to Iran and turned back.
I’m glad we didn’t use nukes again. If the situation hadn’t resolved, I won’t say it would have been wrong.
Thanks for your comments.
In 2 days it will be the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima, *and* the first GOP 2016 debate will be held.
He's too busy celebrating his b-day with Reggie today, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he's pulls that crap on Thursday in order to deflect from the debate.
I would like to know what “sponsored” means. FReeper discostu’s point in #41 is absolutely correct.
Well fine. Someone might tell them, that’s the point. Some people might want paradoxical advertisement, e.g. ads for pregnancy crisis centers showing up on articles touting Planned Parenthood. Some people might not.
Tell them what? That googleadservices (saw that one on the bottom of my browser when loading the offending page) sometimes put Walmart ads on the page? Walmart’s answer would probably be “are people clicking through?” The point of targeted ads is for you to see companies you’re likely to do business with. Reload that page a dozen times you’ll probably get at least 1 ad for somebody you do business with (unless you don’t get any, every time I go I get nothing, turned off all my ad blocking and everything). The web ad business isn’t about direct relationships anymore. Anybody using these services has no control or concern with where their ads are showing up, they just want the clicks.
I might not care, but only to an extent. If something sufficiently reprehensible was being used by my ad vendor then it would eventually blow back on me.
“I would like to know what sponsored means. “
When I went to HTR’s linked site the sponsor I got was AMERICAN MUSCLE!
Obviously a third party targeted ad based on my history with American Muscle.
So now we will forever know you as the American Muscle freak.
What did you get when you clicked on the article?
If they click through they click through. Part of the fun of this method of distributing ads is there isn’t even much of a trail. WalMart pays googleadservices, GAS pays Vox. It’s like using a flyer service, your flyers could wind up in a gay bathhouse, but if they become customers then the flyer service did their job and you don’t worry about it.
No problem. The specialize in Mustang performance parts.
“Oh wow you are cutesy. That is why your credibility is zero.”
I think my credibility on this one is just fine.
Not very surprising that the Beijing Outlet Mart would support China’s wartime ally and closest friend.
All manner of excuses bub
At least you have learned something today.
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