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| Source | Bob Kinsey |
| Date | 01/04/17/07:41 |
| Does anybody feel orchestrated? The pictures of the spy plane airmen
returning from Hainan were cast in the aura of returning war heroes – men and woman who were defending the frontiers of freedom against a fearsome Yellow Peril whose war-like intentions and human rights record are such that they are like unto the Philistines, the Huns, the Stalinists and Fidelistas. Such is the agenda of organizations like the Committee on the Present Danger, Helms the Jesse, Lott the Trent, Powell the Colin, and Chaney the Dick. Little does it matter that these air persons were treated to accommodations most Americans can ill afford while on vacation, while awaiting diplomacy to weave its myths. Perhaps the most dissonant thing was Chaney’s appeal to international law (international waters) to assert the right of the plane to do its thing 19 km from Hainan. His folks would not have the US or its corporations subject to international law when it comes to war crimes, to global warming agreements, to nuclear non-proliferation, to nuclear missile defense – only to its privileges to fly 19 km off the China coast. It is probably true that a Chinese military aircraft even five times further away from our coast without permission would not have been subject to fly-bys, but instead would have been blown out of the sky. The USA foreign military aircraft limit is reported to be over 200 km. What is the agenda of the Pentagonists, missiliers, and the Lockheed/Boeing stockholders if not to craft sufficient enemies to justify more military spending, more and newer Nukes, even more nefarious weapons? Of course, such weapons would never be used by the USA except to defend freedom with surgical operating room caution. The record speaks for itself. Who bombed the Laotian and Cambodia and Vietnamese civilians to the millions? Who defoliated a whole country with poison that even poisoned its own soldiers? Who overtly arms other nations with high tech weapons to oppress their minorities whether in East Timor or Israel? Who sells the most arms in the world? Who blew a passenger jet out of the Iranian sky killing all the passengers? Whoops? Who has explicitly threatened other countries with the use of nuclear weapons at least 10 times by 1971 and more since? Who litters the battlefield with uranium and plutonium dust and radio-active spent ordinance? Who lies about the presence of plutonium in these bullets, warheads and shells until forced by evidence to admit it? Who stonewalls its own soldiers suffering from the poisons of this battle? Who accepts the death of half a million children from poisoned water, polluted environs, lack of medicines and proper diet for ten years in the name of controlling their un-elected leader? Who intentionally bombed the civilian infrastructure to create that poisoned water? Whose submarine drowns 9 civilians while it is at play in the Pacific? Whose Secretary of State, as a military commander, said he was uninterested in the number of reported civilian deaths – just collateral damage? Who regularly bombs a country for ten years with impunity and no danger to its own, presumably to protect the Kurds and other minorities-- and then stands aside to let the Turks bomb the Kurds? Who maintains a launch-on-warning first-strike use policy for its nuclear weapons and continues to develop them even after signing a treaty saying it won’t? Whose civilian population continually ignores all this, quietly going about the pursuit of its individual happiness, passively paying taxes to support it, electing leaders pledged to a strong national defense? Who indeed flashes signs of its own collective IQ at its conquering freedom fighters like the whole things was a sporting event? Surely such a country can be trusted never to use its weapons except for Good! And today the most hawkish of religionists smilingly egress their Easter sunrise to sunset feel good celebrations talking of eternal life while longing for crusades, armageddons and raptures, their churches sporting national flags and prayers of thanksgiving for warriors -- except ones who wear other uniforms. Somewhere, somehow the scandal of the cross got turned into the triumph of force. Who lives by the sword dies by the sword is what he said. Lovingly taking the pain and destruction of evil upon himself is what he did. But we have all died to that Spirit. |
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