SUPPORT OUR TROOPS. END THE FAILED WARS. BRING OUR KIDS HOME, ALIVE!
The web is covered in stink today because of a reporter for the Associated Press, Julie Jacobson, who photographed the death of a Marine whose legs had just been blown off.
The kid was Joshua Bernard, a Lance Corporal of 21 years.
When the photo appeared, Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense [sic] furiously tried to get the AP to quash the photo. It didn’t, to its everlasting credit.
But Gates. The words “decency” and “unconscionable” coming from him are fetid with hypocrisy.
Gates was director of the CIA. “Intelligence” agencies are moral dirt, hated the world over for torture, murder, and destabilization of countries leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
The KGB, Mossad, CIA, STASI, SAVAK—they’re all the same. A man who presides over torture and murder should not speak of decency. He has none.
Nor is it easy to believe that Gates feels the slightest sympathy for the dead kid or for his family.
If you don’t want kids to die in Afghanistan, don’t send them there. He does. How sorry can he be?
Why then is he so angry at having the war photographed? Easy: Spin control. Spin is so very important in war these days. While America is only barely a democracy, still, if the public, the great sleeping acquiescent ignorant beast, ever gets really upset, the war ends.
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