“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.
