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"Do Wars Really Defend America's Freedom?"
(Homage To Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler)
Orwell: A Brief, Image-Rich Introduction To A Prophetic Genius
"Do Wars Really Defend America's Freedom?"
(Homage To Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler)
Orwell: A Brief, Image-Rich Introduction To A Prophetic Genius
It’s easy to get pumped around triumphalism.
But when we glimpse the downside of all that chest thumping, we must look at our actual treatment of Native Americans and black people (whom we're still shooting for sport) and Vietnamese and Iranians and Iraqis. (Vietnam was Uncle Sam's "Holocaust" - as many as 3 million people killed... for no good reason.)
Even FDR had to admit that Somoza (one of America's many dictator pals) was “a son of a bitch, but he was OUR son of a bitch!” (Why... we're so fond of dictators, we've put one in The White House.)
And just how different has Christian triumphalism been
Could it be political triumphalism's foundation and inspiration?
Have we been blinded by the light?
Do we crave poking our own eyes out?
Look at America's two camps.
Even if one of them is right, a very black cloud hangs over us all.
But when we glimpse the downside of all that chest thumping, we must look at our actual treatment of Native Americans and black people (whom we're still shooting for sport) and Vietnamese and Iranians and Iraqis. (Vietnam was Uncle Sam's "Holocaust" - as many as 3 million people killed... for no good reason.)
Even FDR had to admit that Somoza (one of America's many dictator pals) was “a son of a bitch, but he was OUR son of a bitch!” (Why... we're so fond of dictators, we've put one in The White House.)
And just how different has Christian triumphalism been
Could it be political triumphalism's foundation and inspiration?
Have we been blinded by the light?
Do we crave poking our own eyes out?
Look at America's two camps.
Even if one of them is right, a very black cloud hangs over us all.
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