Operator’s Manual: Justifying Aggression
via Steve Dekorte
Racism within the military has long been an important tool to justify the destruction and occupation of another country. It has long been used to justify the killing, subjugation, and torture of another people.
Racism is a vital weapon employed by this government. It is a more important weapon than a rifle, a tank, a bomber, or a battleship. It is more destructive than an artillery shell, or a bunker buster, or a Tomahawk missile.
While all those weapons are created an owned by this government, they are harmless without people willing to use them. Those who send us to war do not have to pull a trigger or lob a mortar round. They do not have to fight the war, they merely have to sell the war.
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We need to wake up and realize that our real enemies are not in some distant land. They’re not people whose names we don’t know, and cultures we don’t understand.
The enemy is people we know very well and can identify.
- Mike Prysner of Iraq Veterans Against War
