The warriors who conducted this drone strike from a safe distance in the U.S. without any danger to themselves other than their moral conscience if they have one are henceforth “heroes.” “Thank you for your service.”
The majority of the people killed by the US military in Washington’s 21st century wars for Israel and the military/security complex’s profits have been women, children, village elders, weddings, funerals, children’s soccer games, and farm workers. But this is merely the collateral damage of bringing democracy and the American way to the oppressed.
Every time I go through the Atlanta airport I am subjected to endless recordings thanking our service persons for their service, and informing the rest of us that enlisted military persons will be first to board. Service to who? How is someone serving the profits of the military/security complex and the state of Israel a hero? Our “heroes” are lowly paid mercenaries serving evil. Thanking them for their service is like thanking Satan for his evil.
Copyright © 2019 Paul Craig Roberts
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
First the Arabian Oil Refinery is blown up by drones if can honestly believe that based upon whose word??? Emediately the blame is put on Iran. Then to take the short attention span of Americans away from this apparent set up to justify attaches on Iran we have the Ukraine conversation with Trump occupying the media and the time of Congress when they should be directing it toward who actually blew up the refinery. My first guess is Israel had it done and the US fulfilled the request using drones captured or purchased on the black market. Just my personal take on it all……….. “The smell of a rat is the first obvious smell of any war.” Larry Milby SCM writter