Caitlin Johnstone ponders the misnomer "Defense"

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 07:30:53PM -0700, Razer wrote:
> "A lot of delusional, unpatriotic democracy haters like to argue that the US military doesn’t actually defend the freedom of the American people, and that it isn’t really used to defend freedom at all, and that it isn’t even really used to defend any rules-based international order as sometimes claimed, and that even to use the word “defend” to describe anything the US military does is inaccurate since it is consistently on the attacking and aggressing side of any given conflict, and that actually the US military functions as nothing other than a blunt object wielded by the rich and powerful for the advancement of plutocratic interests and the geostrategic dominance of opaque and unaccountable government agencies, and that it can in fact be accurately said that the only difference between the US military and any other band of armed thugs is funding…
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> I forget where I was going with this.
> 
> Ah, yes. Defending your freedoms. 
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> If sending a platoon of Paul Blarts to act as mall security for foreign oil corporations isn’t enough to get you saluting every American flag flying over every McDonald’s you see, then you should know that the US military’s freedom fighting doesn’t end at mere corporate asset protection.
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> They’re also defending your freedom by killing Afghan farmers in their sleep.
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> Why did the armed forces of the United States kill dozens of civilian farmers in Afghanistan while they rested in the field after a hard day’s work? That’s a good question. But an even better question is, what were those Afghan farmers doing lying on top of your freedom?
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> Obviously the compassionate US military would never dream of killing non-combatants under any circumstances whatsoever, but the unfortunate fact of the matter is that you can’t make an omelet without cracking a few civilians."
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> More: https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/us-defends-your-freedom-by-using-troops-as-saudi-oil-security-guards-e5db36fa1dde


For a moment I thought Rayzer had turned a page, then realised he was
posting the ever vigilant Caitlin Johnstone.

Rayzer, as in the man who supports the literal murder of those he
terms "proto fascists" for posting distasteful naughtzee jokes as
memes on the Internet...

Where would we be without Antifa, hey.