Statement from President Joe Biden on Completing the Destruction of the United States’ Chemical Weapons Stockpile | The White House
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For more than 30 years, the United States has worked tirelessly to eliminate our chemical weapons stockpile. Today, I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition in that stockpile—bringing us one step closer to a world free from the horrors of chemical weapons. Successive administrations have determined that these…

For more than 30 years, the United States has worked tirelessly to eliminate our chemical weapons stockpile. Today, I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition in that stockpile—bringing us one step closer to a world free from the horrors of chemical weapons. Successive administrations have determined that these…

  • thisbenzingring@wirebase.org
    214·
    1 year ago

    We can’t move forward if we can’t get past the past. You have brought nothing to this conversation except being a troll. Nobody is saying that the USA is without fault.

    • ChrisLicht@lemm.ee
      41·
      1 year ago

      Doesn’t the recent nomination of a guy like Eliott Abrams—by an ostensibly liberal administration—suggest that the U.S. has not gotten past its past?

    • purahna@lemmygrad.ml
      43·
      1 year ago

      Many of these things are still ongoing today, and many more (possibly all?) have never been apologized for or have even been denied. Why are you calling that the past?

      If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound.

      • Malcolm X
    • purahna@lemmygrad.ml
      22·
      1 year ago

      At what date do you think the United States just stopped doing all that evil bad stuff and got its act together?

    • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
      56·
      1 year ago

      The point being made is that the present contains the past and there has been no attempt to break with the past. The CIA hacked into the state-owned computers of Congressional staffers who were writing up the report on torture findings and destroyed most of their report permanently. The CIA was ordered not destroy video evidence. The woman who then destroyed the evidence against court order was unpunished and she was appointed to oversee the case against the CIA hackers, who she absolved of any wrong doing.

      It’s literally not the past. The US is constantly and continuously doing these things.

        • CapitalismsRefugee@lemmy.world
          22·
          1 year ago

          Is your statement meant to imply that one might miss the forest of US atrocities if one looks at every tree of genocide or civilian assassination or unjust imperial war as individual and unrelated incidents?