"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much," wrote Joseph Conrad of European colonial power in the late 1800’s.
We Americans prefer not to look into our wars too much. If we did, we might quickly forget that we are a nation founded, as so many public and political figures like to point out, upon Christian principles. Quite the opposite. It is a refutation of those principles that enables the moneychangers to rule the temple and the church-going architects of war to kill without conscience.
Meanwhile shame on the corporate profiteers, the political candidates and comfortable pundits, the strangely silent veterans of Vietnam who should know better, the fear-mongers, the pro-war pro-life hypocrites, and all of those who methodically build their fame and fortune on the backs of the young men and women who do their dirty work for them – faraway, out of site, and with the apparent blessing of a do-nothing Congress and a strangely complacent American public.
The horror. The horror.
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