American
Murder
By Paul Edwards
January 10, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - Clausewitz
said, “War is the continuation of politics
by other means”, but American Presidents
have modified his apothegm. No one knows
when it was first judged--How to put it? Not
legal, no; not moral, no, surely not.
Conceiveable..? Permissible..?--politically
safe, for a nation to assassinate a human
being, a foreign enemy. There is no record
of that meeting of our government’s most
powerful men--only such a group could plan
so radical an action--when one of them first
dared to say, “Suppose we kill him?”
Those souls shocked and wounded by our
latest murder, need to know that meeting was
not recent: didn’t happen under the
Suppurating Pustule that infects the White
House today, nor the charming Grand
Bullshitter who preceded him, nor the
aphasic buffoon before him. It was a century
ago. There’s no dating it to a particular
hit but it was certainly held before our
deviously arranged murder of Sandino in
Nicaragua in 1934.
For the last century the US government has
made it its regular business to execute, or
to buy the execution of, men it deemed
geopolitically damned. There isn’t space
here to review the long roster of America’s
secret victims, nor any need for that. The
uninformed need to take their own education
in hand or continue mooing meekly down the
chute toward who knows what end? Perhaps
even their own date with the stungun.
Skipping past our more notorious standard
issue deep cover CIA murders--Lumumba, Che,
Allende, Diem--and excepting killings during
phony “police actions” and “incursions”,
gets us to the phase of dedicated,
clandestine extermination outfits, to the
era of “terminating with extreme prejudice”
by quasi-military units like the Phoenix
Program that murdered thousands of Viet Cong
and NVA. It was a short step then to
creation of specialized military hit squads.
Navy SEALS with their Osama murder are
typical.
In this era of magical tech innovations--GPS
wizardry, HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT and MASINT--America
vaunts the uncanny accuracy of drones that
slaughter wedding parties instead of jihadi
honchos, and Hellfire missiles that maim and
eviscerate more peasant children than
diabolized hajjis. Targeted assassination
has, in its current iteration, thrown over
the traces and expanded its lethal reach so
that nailing its purported target is now
irrelevant. Busloads of Yemeni kids will do.
It’s now a case, as a Marine buddy told me
in Khe Sanh, of “Kill ‘em all; let God sort
‘em out.” |
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