A Refugee Crisis Made in America
Will the U.S. accept responsibility for the humanitarian consequences of Washington-manufactured wars? By Philip Giraldi • September 11, 2015 Procyk Radek / Shutterstock.com On April 29th, 2008 I had a Saul on the Road to Damascus moment. I had flipped open the Washington Post and there, on the front page, was a color photo of a two year old Iraqi boy named Ali Hussein being pulled from the rubble of a house that had been destroyed by American missiles. The little boy was wearing shorts and a t-shirt and had on his feet flip-flops. His head was hanging back at an angle that told the viewer immediately that he was dead. Four days later on May 3rd a letter by a Dunn Loring Virginia woman named Valerie Murphy was printed by the Post . Murphy complained that the Iraqi child victim photo should not have been run in the paper because it would “stir up...