Thank you again too for answering my questions. 🙂 I understand very well what you mean about the war crimes committed by states/governments etc which go unpunished and unprevented and about the unavoidable complicity /involvement of every citizen/person on the planet in that, but I don’t understand why you believe a position of pacifist inactivity is “morally bankrupt”. Every action leads to an equal and usually opposing reaction. There is a philosophical argument for doing nothing or as little as possible, because you do not know what your actions might cost .

I don’t think anybody except people living under a rock cannot know what the US and its cronies are doing, the millions of people that are suffering, the deaths, the illegal sanctions. Too many people can see but are willfully blind, and even approve out of ignorance or malice. Yes, if people are held accountable for what their government does then they will recognize a moral obligation to oppose it; especially in a so-called democracy such as the US. This is a philosophical issues and I understand your position but I do not respect it because it is morally bankrupt— I mean no disrespect to you personally. We can all do more, including me. I do what I can by writing and protesting. I have been to Palestine three time, volunteered with ISM and faced down IDF submachine guns literally. I could and should be doing more. If I had the power personally to bring Bush, Obama, Trump immediately to justice I would do so, but you know as a practical matter that is not possible now; but there is not a statue of limitations for war crimes, and there is universal jurisdiction, so war criminals have to always be looking over their shoulder. They should constantly be called out for what they are. They should not be respected by bootlickers. I do not consider my position extreme, not while millions of people have suffer and live in refugee camps, drink dirty water, go without food, education, medicine and the basics of life because corporations and oligarchs want to improve their bottom line. War crimes are the worst of all crimes.
 
Thank you for reading my article and commenting. BDS.

“I am responsible and every American is responsible for what the US government does, and I will gladly debate that.”
 
OK. So, as a US citizen, try prosecuting President Trump for war crimes. He, along with other members of the US state, is clearly guilty of war crimes, but I doubt you would even get to first base if you tried to bring a prosecution. Actually, given the vehemence of your rhetoric, I find it surprising that you have not already done so – I suspect that is because you know ordinary citizens are unable to hold their leaders to account.

PS. ie. If people paid more attention, close attention, to their immediate environment and their own actions, perhaps half of the world’s crimes would vanish.

I’m half German, have many relatives who’ve experienced it/grown up with it. Thank you for your reply again. I don’t know if there is even one country on earth where I could live without having to become a full time and probably lifelong protestor, according to your criteria for complicity/responsibility/”guilt”. It’s an interesting if extreme/absolutist position to hold. What do you mean by “as much as one can”? I believe that everyone is already doing everything they can, is already doing the only thing they can, their best. Do you think that it is helpful ( likely to lead to “better” behaviour ), to persuade people that they are responsible for/complicit in anything that they cannot see themselves actually doing with their own eyes?

These so called liberals don’t speak for me, they are identity politics agents, agents provocateur; propagandists etc. They are puppets in an orchestrated agenda.