As the bastions of war chime on, my voice, like so many others, will be drowned out. The
military industrial complex knows
how to do propaganda, better than anyone. But I’ll try...
In 1956, president
Eisenhower, himself a longtime military man, warned the country upon taking
leave of office, of the military-industrial complex that was threatening to
take over its government. Less than 10 years later, that’s exactly what the
complex did, and it’s never looked back.
And I’m
thinking: you never learned anything at all? Not
from Ike, not from Vietnam, not from the non-existent Iraqi WMD, and not from
Libya or Syria? How is that even possible? Oh wait, I know, because the New
York Times, Washington Post, CNN et al is where you get your so-called news.
That’s why. Gotcha.
Today, May 26 2019, and I’m deeply ashamed to say it, I have
two stories, one concerning a speech by VP Mike Pence at West Point, the other
from Caitlin Johnstone about a Twitter thread initiated by the US military
itself. Pence’s speech is heart breaking in its
ignorance of US history, Caitlin’s is heart wrenching in its
acknowledgment of that same history, and what it
does to young Americans.
I always thought that Springsteen talking about Vietnam from
Born In The USA is sort of like a haiku, encompassing the essence in just a few
words, even if he doesn’t catch all the misery and bloodshed and mental anguish
and broken lives and all of it (but how could you?):
I had a brother at Khe San;
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They’re still there, he’s all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
I know people older than me have many more examples of this
and from the time when the ‘war’ was actually ongoing. Eve of Destruction?
Creedence? Please send suggestions.
Nassim
Taleb likes to point out that in olden days those who declared wars would also
be first in line to fight them. By design. The fair thing to do.
Let’s send Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump and
Chuck Schumer and Mike Pompeo and John Bolton and all
of their families into Iran first. And then we can talk.
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