US can’t supply PPE but sure can supply bombs

“There should be only one fight in our world today, our shared battle against Covid-19. We must mobilize every ounce of energy to defeat it.” – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

The US response to that plea? More bombing than ever, at least in the poor African country of Somalia. Trump has dropped more bombs on Somalia in the first 4 months this year than Obama dropped there in his 8 years. Last year Trump nearly doubled Obama’s 8 year total.

Does even one in a hundred Americans know that? Or that we have about 800 military staffing 5 bases? Our reasoning is that the anti-government group al-Shabab, once they take over the Somalian g, overnment, will plan attacks against our homeland. Sure.

We do know that the US has likely the worst response to the pandemic in the industrialized world with nearly 900,000 infections, including 48,000 dead. One reason has been our failure to provide early warning, PPE and testing. Maybe if we switched our priority from perpetual war to the fight called for by Secretary-General Guterres, we might start flattening the infection curve instead of Somalian villages.