BALES JAILED WHILE UNCLE SAM BAILS

Am I the only soul that sees the horrific irony in the indictment of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales for 17 murders of innocent Afghans by the same outfit, the US government, which maintains our criminal military occupation and defilement of Afghanistan? Uncle Sam knows full well the American people will neither pay for or serve in these criminal ventures on a universal basis. So he borrows money from foreign countries and hires private soldiers who can't get a job in a withering economy. He temps them with flashy uniforms and high tech killing toys. He orchestrates rock star status for these paid mercenaries at sporting event intermissions. He mis-manages their brains with great skill and then hands them a license to kill. He sends them out on tour after tour where the poor saps soon realize they've made a Devil's Bargain with their Uncle. They can't tell friend from foe and begin to fear and despise every one of the foreigners they're supposed to "save". They get their brains scrambled from traumatic shock but after a brief respite are thrown right back into the nightmare of a war with no boundaries, no friends, no rules and no sanity. And if one of them goes nuts and starts blasting away at the locals, Uncle Sam gobbles him up, tosses him in solitary, and draws up a long list of "crimes" that will get him a sentence of life, if not death.

Maybe its time to see Uncle Sam in the dock.