Remember the 100-year-old maxim about war: The first casualty of war is the truth. So all the warmongers and fearmongers on all sides tell lies, and exaggerate with half-truths plausible excuses to justify evil — when evil naturally manifests with violence.
The U.S. is currently not capable of fighting real war anyway — it can only posture and bully in supreme incompetence — see double Medal of Honor winner Gen. Smedley Butler’s “War is a Racket.” Witness the idiocy of sending two aircraft carriers to support Israel with no declaration of war or legitimate use of the War Powers Act against Russian hypersonic missiles on station in the Black Sea.
It’s an open secret that we are defenseless against such weapons, and entering the Middle East war would provoke World War III, with desperate use of nuclear weapons. Instead of pursuit of patient justice — Christ’s “turn the other cheek,” as applied by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of post-aparteid South Africa — powers that be are choosing the destructive madness of violent revenge.
We are facing the most dangerous threat humanity has ever faced, not some sort of sporting event of whose prejudices wins.
— Stuart Thompson
Wasilla
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