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…

  • 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
        • axtualdave@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          What is “that”? The other person is mad things in the past, unrelated to the destruction of chemical weapons, are bad.

          What would these politicians do? Invent time travel and change history?

          How about moving forward, acknowledging the past, and trying to do things right… Like destroying chemical weapons stockpiles?

      • purahna@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        45·
        1 year ago

        “You can’t point out any problems unless you have a solution to them” is such a tired thought terminating cliché. I have plenty of ideas about solutions, but my contribution here is meaningful without me having to go to all of the trouble of explaining them all.