Trump used the threat of all out war against Venezuela to push Palestine out of the headlines, opening the way to escalate anti-Muslim pretexts for Empire with a Christmas Day bombing of Nigeria.
Early on in my career as a journalist reporting on U.S.-Middle East foreign policy and nonviolent activism in support of Palestinian equal rights and human rights, I corresponded with Pete McCloskey, a former member of Congress from California. In one letter, McCloskey wrote that it was impossible to overstate the influence of the Israel lobby and its media operatives over U.S. policy in the region. At the time, I thought that was an exaggeration of the situation. I soon learned otherwise. McCloskey, a Korean War veteran who earned the Navy Cross for valor in combat, had got it right. Would that we had more members of his caliber in the Congress today unafraid to push back against the kind of influence you describe, Sam.
It's too much to ask, a forlorn hope, that those at "the tip of the spear" of the US military will just say, no, we have a higher duty, not to participate in war crimes, to follow illegal orders. Just because Trump says it it's true? Of course, the Mitch McConnell-engineered Supreme Court will claim that in finding these pilots guilty of insubordination. Another example of the perversity of our times.
Early on in my career as a journalist reporting on U.S.-Middle East foreign policy and nonviolent activism in support of Palestinian equal rights and human rights, I corresponded with Pete McCloskey, a former member of Congress from California. In one letter, McCloskey wrote that it was impossible to overstate the influence of the Israel lobby and its media operatives over U.S. policy in the region. At the time, I thought that was an exaggeration of the situation. I soon learned otherwise. McCloskey, a Korean War veteran who earned the Navy Cross for valor in combat, had got it right. Would that we had more members of his caliber in the Congress today unafraid to push back against the kind of influence you describe, Sam.
It's too much to ask, a forlorn hope, that those at "the tip of the spear" of the US military will just say, no, we have a higher duty, not to participate in war crimes, to follow illegal orders. Just because Trump says it it's true? Of course, the Mitch McConnell-engineered Supreme Court will claim that in finding these pilots guilty of insubordination. Another example of the perversity of our times.
Perceptive.
Thou Shalt Not Kill - just to say.