McCain writes himself wrong epitaph
One of the more distressing, even catastrophic results of the GOP Senate takeover is the elevation of Sen. John McCain to chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. As overseer of the American military and the nation’s defense policy, McCain will have the ultimate Senate role in promoting a more bellicose foreign policy. And McCain loves bellicose and murderous military incursions, whether bombing innocents to smithereens from 35,000 feet, as he did in Vietnam in the 1960's, to cheerleading our failed and criminal Iraq war in 2003, that slaughtered hundreds of thousands including 4,489 GI's that he claims to revere. Friends don't let friends die in senselessÿ war.
Tragically, McCain never learned from his murderous mistakes. He loved the smell of death in Vietnam and never broke with the dead enders who consider it a noble war. He not only championed the Iraq war throughout, he calls it a victory, in part because he promoted the phony 'surge' which was nothing but a publicity stunt to prevent an American rout instead of the failed stalemate it became. That surge sentenced thousands more to needless death. After Iraq, McCain has careened from one idiotic and murderous military incursion to another. He supported the bombing of Gadhafi's Libya, which killed thousands and turned that forlorn land into a failed state. He absolutely lusted to bomb Syria's Assad; then went ballistic when President Obama sensibly demurred. In a truly disgusting, even traitorous move, he sallied forth to Ukraine to foment illegal, immoral civil war against the elected government. He plans to use his new criminal war bully pulpit to demand sending arms the coup leaders' new government. He's demanding more troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria to counter the Islamic State gains there he is, in part, personally responsible for creating.
McCain is considered by millions of know-nothings as a patriotic hero. He glories in their adoration. At 78, and keenly aware of his approaching mortality, he's even written his own epitaph: "He served his country". In typical McCain fashion he's wrong again. More appropriate would be: "Don't mourn boys; bomb".
Tragically, McCain never learned from his murderous mistakes. He loved the smell of death in Vietnam and never broke with the dead enders who consider it a noble war. He not only championed the Iraq war throughout, he calls it a victory, in part because he promoted the phony 'surge' which was nothing but a publicity stunt to prevent an American rout instead of the failed stalemate it became. That surge sentenced thousands more to needless death. After Iraq, McCain has careened from one idiotic and murderous military incursion to another. He supported the bombing of Gadhafi's Libya, which killed thousands and turned that forlorn land into a failed state. He absolutely lusted to bomb Syria's Assad; then went ballistic when President Obama sensibly demurred. In a truly disgusting, even traitorous move, he sallied forth to Ukraine to foment illegal, immoral civil war against the elected government. He plans to use his new criminal war bully pulpit to demand sending arms the coup leaders' new government. He's demanding more troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria to counter the Islamic State gains there he is, in part, personally responsible for creating.
McCain is considered by millions of know-nothings as a patriotic hero. He glories in their adoration. At 78, and keenly aware of his approaching mortality, he's even written his own epitaph: "He served his country". In typical McCain fashion he's wrong again. More appropriate would be: "Don't mourn boys; bomb".
posted by Walt Zlotow at 5:54 AM
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