The Neoconservative War Criminals In Our Midst
by Paul Craig Roberts
The State Department has an office that hunts German war
criminals. Bureaucracies being what they are, the office will exist into the
next century when any surviving German prison guards will be 200 years old. From
time to time the State Department claims to have found a lowly German soldier
who was assigned as a prison camp guard. The ancient personage, who had lived in
the US for the past 50 or 60 years without doing harm to anyone, is then
merciless persecuted, usually on the basis of hearsay.
I have never understood what the State Department thinks the
alleged prison guard was supposed to have done--freed the prisoners, resign his
position?--when Prussian aristocrats, high-ranking German Army generals and
Field Marshall and national hero Erwin Rommel were murdered for trying to
overthrow Hitler.
What the State Department needs is an office that rounds up
American war criminals.
They are in abundance and not hard to find. Indeed, recently 56
of them made themselves public by signing a letter to President Obama demanding
that he send in the US Army to complete the destruction of Syria and its people
that Washington has begun.
At the Nuremberg Trials of the defeated Germans after World War
II, the US government established the principle that naked aggression--the
American way in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen--is a war
crime. Therefore, there is a very strong precedent for the State Department to
round up those neoconservatives who are fomenting more war crimes...
Hypocrisy is Washington’s hallmark, and all but the most
delusional are now accustomed to their rulers speaking one way and behaving in
the opposite. It is now part of the American character to regard ourselves as
members of the “virtuous nation,” “the indispensable people,” while our rulers
commit war crimes around the globe....
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