Plows Into Swords

I know a young lady who helps her mother clean houses. She is intelligent, having completed high school at age 15, and is very personable. I asked about her plans. She is going to join the Navy at 17. I thought about alternatives to recommend, but felt I could not recommend college, which would be expensive, wasteful, and possibly poisonous. 


The “service” she sees as probably her best chance for education and career. For decades now many people of the working class have found that to be the most promising personal path. Traditional jobs have been exported or given to immigrants. In former times, good public schools could point poor but bright students toward a good path. The schools now do not help anybody. Rather the opposite. Bright students are demoralised and alienated, not put on a path to advance. Exhibit: Dylann Roof, integrated public school student.

 
Of course, the availability of this cannon fodder has allowed the Deep State, the evil Yankee Empire, to engage in stupid, destructive, failed wars. If there was a universal draft in place, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and the present Persian adventure would not have been possible.


The attack on Iran fits every line in the definition of war crime. Trump and his henchmen and the Republican eunuchs in Congress are entirely guilty. Of course It would be nice to believe that criminals are always brought to justice, but war makes our rulers rich and feel powerful. War is always profitable to some people. They cannot give it up just because plain people die.  


We are all complicit in evil, especially the false prophets of “Christian” Zionism and shallow sports fans who think patriotism is supporting any act of government because it is the home team.  


Yankees believe that everybody wants to be like them. All you need to do is murder a few leaders and a couple of hundred thousand other people and any country will strive to become Minnesota. Dead women and children are just unavoidable accidents. As our friend Ilana Mercer comments: “War on civilians is war on civilization.”  


Our leaders are without shame or empathy - psychopathic traits. 


Murder of the leaders of other countries is gangsterism that in the past was not a part of civilized conflict. And a sudden attack while fake negotiations are going is a match for Pearl Harbor. 


Trump has now destroyed any hope of domestic reforms that he claimed to represent. 
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Confederate general D.H. Hill, in describing the Lincoln invasion and destruction of the South, wrote that the Yankee perceives it as his responsibility to correct others who don’t match up to himself. It is a constant power trip from which he will never escape.