I could have wound up killing relatives of the Korean students I came to be teaching in subsequent years. I could also have wound up having my dead body thrown into a pit in North Korea as did four bunkmates and members of my squad from basic training. My poor buddies had never even heard of Korea before being sent there to fight and die.
I was a sucker to believe my government was not a criminal war investors run government and to have allowed myself to be drafted and be part of its killer war machine, but ignorance is never a legal or moral excuse. I was fortunate to have been sent to be part of the occupation forces in former Nazi Germany, while my buddies were sent to kill and be killed in Korea.
I was so blind and ignorant to have been comfortable in my US Army uniform, but I was stationed in what had been criminally insane Adolph Hitler's Nazi Germany, which most of the world including America had to fight a war with. I didn't know then what I know now that it was American industrialists that had armed Nazi Germany by heavily investing in, and joint venturing with, a financially prostate and completely disarmed Germany building Hitler's army up to world's number one military power in five short years. But I only learned of American tycoons backing of Hitler to attack Communist Russia many years later. In 1952, I was a patriotic sucker, indulging in my youthful life and not much interested in my government's anti-communist war in Korea. click here
Another famous African-American gave succinct guidance for those, who like your author, were foolishly asleep to the reality of a murderous war yawning. "You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." - Malcolm X
The Need for this Article
This writer has sought to take advantage of a inadvertent awkward slip-up by a high official lackey of the deep state investors in war who control our existence. Apparently, a criminal American President, just one in a long series of criminal US Presidents, let himself be overheard making an off-hand truthful remark that contradicts what the CIA overseen criminal media tells the world in excusing America's genocidal crimes against humanity.
When a crack in the deep state wall of TV inculcated self-indulgence, dis and misinformation and limitless militant subservient patriotism opens up, with an awkward truth jutting out, jump on it! Don't let smiling commentators make a joke out of some truth about America's genocides that accidentally slipped out in relaxed conversation. No, don't let a truth that slipped out and contradicts the lies told on TV about Vietnam and Vietnam veterans be forgotten.
Remember how 'they' made a joke of Senator Barak Obama's family pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright's anguished cry, "God bless America? No, no, God Damn America for killing innocent people!"
Remember how American peace activists failed to take the ball from presidential candidate Ron Paul, and run with it, failed to keep repeating what he said on prime time coverage of the presidential candidates debate: "All the bombings and invasions beginning with Korea were illegal, unconstitutional and a horrific loss of life!" The silence of the rest of the candidates and the commentators was striking, but seemed to fit the public apathy. Our war torn world continually threatened with nuclear winter is our payment for public apathy.
* Whether anyone actually called the Vietnam war stupid and its veterans suckers is not what is important. Important is how criminal media sought to ridicule someone saying something truthful about the genocide of poor and innocent men, women and children Americans committed in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and keeps calling Americans, who participated in that horrific genocidal crime of Holocaust proportion, heroes.
Call attention to that crack in the wall within your family, among friends and acquaintances! Humankind is in an ugly period of suffering in the bloody hands of imbecilic investors in war, who own our governments and media and who cannot stop themselves from planning war, even terminal nuclear war, since they know from centuries of experience that wars make money.
If and when we can have the resources and money the reigning investors in war dedicate to war and preparation for more war to use for maintenance of the planet and feeding well the starving, what a happy world it will be!
Let's have a New Year's resolution to start talking about our Democratic and Republican parities' immensely dangerous subservience to the investors in war! Would that being independent of political party affiliation were compulsory for all candidates for public office!
Endnotes
1. ["'Endless Wars,' Here's Where About 200,000 Troops Remain," New York Times Oct. 21, 2019. ]
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