For You Religious Types

by | Apr 30, 2019

For You Religious Types

by | Apr 30, 2019

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever. … The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.”

Thomas Jefferson said this about slavery.

He could have just as easily been talking about the American empire’s genocide in Yemen, where, “Of the dead, 60 per cent are children under the age of five.”

By the way, 233,000 has got to be a low ball estimate after more than four years of this, and with approximately 80,000 actual violent deaths in the war against a country that never attacked us or threatened us in any way.

Scott Horton

Scott Horton

Scott Horton is director of the Scott Horton Academy of Foreign Policy and Freedom director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com and host of the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He is the author of four books. He has conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.

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