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Yesterday President Donald Trump
tweeted, "My thoughts and prayers are with the families of our serviceman who was killed and his fellow servicemen who were wounded in Somolia. They are truly all HEROES." Three hours later he
tweeted it again, this time with the correct spelling of Somalia.
A few days earlier, at the
climax of his phony, insipid feud with the Philadelphia Eagles, Donald Trump
lectured Americans that they must always stand for the national anthem.
"We stand to honor our military and to honor our country, and to remember the fallen heroes who never made it back home," the reality TV president bloviated. "We stand to show our love for our fellow citizens and our magnificent Constitution. We stand to pay tribute to the incredible Americans who came before us and the heroic sacrifices they made."
In both of these statements, President Trump was lying.
The US special operations soldier who was
killed in Somalia (one of the "
seven countries in five years" famously named in General Wesley Clark's revelation of the US war machine's plans for world domination) and the four others who were injured are not heroes.
The US servicemen and women who have fought and died in America's nonstop acts of military expansionism and wars of aggression are not heroes. They are victims. They are victims of a sociopathic power establishment which does not care about them, and never has.If what I just wrote bothered you, it is because you have been conditioned to oppose such ideas by generations of war propaganda. If you believe that US soldiers are heroes, it means that you believe that they are fighting and dying for a noble cause; for your freedom, for democracy, for the good and the just. It turns the deaths of the fallen into a tragic but noble sacrifice in your eyes,
which keeps you from realizing that they have actually been dying for the profit margins of war plutocrats, land and resource assets, and the neoconservative agenda to secure control of the planet.
Comment: It is a thorny question the author raises, and goes to motivation. What was Wolfe's goal in leaking information to Watkins and others? Did he really feel the information was vital to the American public? It didn't speak to corruption and misdeeds by those in power. To impress his contacts with his depth of access perhaps? To stymie and prolong the Russiagate investigation by creating distractions? And further, yes, why isn't Killary being indicted for the same actions?