Yesterday we got a close look at the CIA’s move away from traditional espionage toward the more straightforward role of secretive killers operating a paramility force with little accountability. Today we get a look at JSOC, another American force that’s keen on filling the ever growing demand for secretive killings.
Just imagine if Iran did this or any other country that the US thinks of as a Terrorist state or supporter of Terrorism,
We would be seeing the Usual Hawkish Senators, demanding that the US go to war with those people!
Yet these same people think that the United States is a country of law!
Can't never have enough trained assassins out there. How can we forget JSOC, where MadMcChyrstal made a name for himself. Whatever happened to him, is he on his way to becoming director of FBI or what?
These operations are dwarfed by Operation Phoenix in Vietnam where Director William Colby admitted in front of the Church Committee on Assassinations that 20,000 civilians, from school teachers to provincial administrators deemed sympathetic with the Vietcong, were terminated with extreme prejudice in the parlance of the time.
No other country in world history has committed so many covert murders! And on top of it, we want to be loved and promote the American way. Go figure…
States are like serial killers. Once they get the taste for blood, they rarely stop killing unless forced to stop.
Killing becomes a way of solving problems. Its an easy way, at least for the person giving the orders. Someone is causing trouble, is inconvenient, then utter the words "will someone rid me of this worrisome priest", and soon your problem is solved. The next time they encounter a problem its even easier to order the next death. This continues until killing becomes routine. Until all involved forget that there were ever any other ways to solve a problem besides the dark assassins in the night.
And, unfortunately for those who would wish that the bloodbath end, any who try to tell the killers that killing is not the way to solve problems usually become viewed as yet another problem in the eyes of the killers.
Giving the state a license to kill is a very bad idea.
So true. Honesty and everyntihg recognized.