Lying murdering war criminal sleaze — at the top of US military command?

© 2021 Peter Free

 

16 November 2021

 

 

And y'all 'be' givin' Russia and China a hard time?

 

Task & Purpose succinctly synopsized the New York Times' (paywall) exposé of the war criminal penchant at the top of American military command:

 

 

[A]s events in Syria, Kabul, Niger and elsewhere have shown, the military has a tendency to use its investigations to absolve itself rather than to hold senior leaders accountable for their mistakes.

 

The New York Times recently revealed that a U.S. airstrike in March 2019 may have killed dozens of civilians at Baghouz, Syria.

 

On March 18, 2019, the Islamic State group was making its last stand at Baghouz, where tens of thousands of women and children were mixed in with ISIS fighters.

 

[A] U.S. special forces officer ordered an airstrike, according to the New York Times.

 

The officer was relying on video from a drone with a standard definition camera and he was unaware that another drone in the area with a high-definition camera revealed women and children were present.

 

In the resulting airstrike, an F-15E dropped three bombs that may have killed up to 64 women and children, but military officials repeatedly undermined efforts to determine if the incident rose to the level of a war crime, the New York Times reported.

 

[A] secretive group known as Task Force 9 may have repeatedly bypassed the process for determining if U.S. airstrikes would kill civilians by claiming that American or allied forces were in imminent danger, New York Times reporters Dave Philipps and Eric Schmitt revealed.

 

Air Force attorney Lt. Col. Dean W. Korsak[,] along with Gene Tate, then with the Defense Department Inspector General’s Office, tried to get the incident investigated as a possible war crime but they could not overcome opposition from their superiors.

 

© 2021 Jeff Schogol, The military keeps finding it did nothing wrong when it investigates itself, Task & Purpose (15 November 2021)

 

 

Sounds typical

 

And I've been around our core militarist culture for close to three decades.

 

God's American angels are — according to US military propaganda — incapable of doing anything grossly incompetent or morally wrong.

 

 

In truth . . .

 

In the United States, uniform shoulder stars are used to lord it over people, get rich and always (100 percent) dodge responsibility.

 

Bad military planning, poor execution (pun intended), sheer stupidity — and rampaging callousness — are all rendered completely blameless — via general officer promotions from the Underling Military Class.

 

Those bestarred folks (for the most part) are even worse than our morally repulsive American politicians. Who, at their most reprehensible, generally cannot extinguish innocents whenever they wish.

 

 

The moral? — It is impossible (for decently-souled human beings) to respect twisted leaders like these

 

How American military heads — generally (and pun-speaking) — differ from World War II's slaughtering Nazi head guys — significant numbers of whom were executed for war crimes after the Nuremberg trials — escapes me.

 

Recall that the US group has now obliterated millions of innocents abroad — counting across the decades from the beginning of the Vietnam War. Including tens of thousands of our own troops.

 

Yet, this rather obvious US-Nazi comparison eludes American culture. Which is (if nothing else) vapidly self-righteous and mass murderingly hypocritical.

 

You can imagine what America's adversaries think about all this.

 

Especially so, when the United States tries to point its blood-drippy fingers at them.

 

Metaphorical Satan must be giggling somewhere.