![]() ![]() Yet in his televised scolding of President Vladimir Putin for deploying Russian troops to the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine-an invasion in which no one died in which no rifle or pistol was fired, let alone missiles-Mr. Shamefully did he stand foursquare for war against Iraq-on the basis of what civilians and non-politicians throughout the whole wide world correctly knew was a completely trumped up pretext. Kerry cast his vote for authorization of “Shock and Awe” in 2003. Secretary of State John Kerry found himself hip-deep in that particular Big Muddy. And hypocrisy with a capital-H is always at the front lines-as most recently seen last Sunday, when U.S. Contextual history is unknown, or willfully ignored-or contorted by ignoramuses, cynics, and profiteers. Now comes Ukraine (?), and the familiar yips of barking dogs.Įvery wartime script opens the same: with truth as the first casualty, a fact first realized, on papyrus, by the tragedian Aeschylus (525 B.C.-456 B.C.). A number of civilians might beg to differ, if not for the fact of their untimely deaths. Madly/proudly titled “Shock and Awe,” the blitzkrieg thrilled viewers of late-night American television news with visages of mushroom clouds, spark trails, and palls of black smoke over the hellish red skylines of Baghdad, Mogul, Tikrit, and Kirkuk.Īccording to official word from London and Washington, missiles were “carefully aimed,” so as to avoid civilian casualties. During rare down times for the military-industrial complex, America’s titans of industry have engineered profitable adventures of dubious legality, and almost no element of righteousness, in too many countries to name in the space I am afforded here.Ĭurrently in the Congress of the United States, a caucus of yahoos and jingoists urges aerial bombardment of Damascus and Teheran, à la the joint U.S.-British atrocity committed eleven years ago this month against the people of Iraq. ![]() Since the close of World War II in 1945, we Americans have found ourselves suckered by that lusty herald, initially in the cause of what we decorously called the “Korean Conflict.” Soon thereafter came the quagmires of Vietnam and Iraq we remain in the quagmire of Afghanistan, world headquarters of heroin commerce. Listen to the rising Shakespearean herald: “Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war.” Hear now the newest trumpets and drums, from Kiev and Moscow and Washington. ![]() Finally, the scheming impresarios draw down the curtain on their grisly entertainment backstage, golden tribute is distributed among the usual suspects. ![]() Belligerents enact respective pas seuls before vast audiences brought to scarified lather by media audiences duped into losing in blood and treasury as payment for patriotic spectacle. Trumpets announce a parade of the very latest in military arts required to cull the combatant populations of their young men and women, and innocent children. Thus goes a deadly dance as old as dirt:Įnter the schemers, and their lies. The tiresome ballet of war is a pas de deux in which opposing sides claim to uphold all that is moral and civilized. ![]()
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