Folly and the Exploitation of Grief

As journalist Glen Greenwald well illustrates in his recent article for The Intercept, Trump's focus, in his address to the joint session of Congress, on the death of the navy Seal 6 service member reiterates the routine bi-partisan practice of exploiting and highlighting the loss of American life and the grief thereof while ignoring the tragedy of millions of civilian deaths at our hands for the conscious and express purpose of promoting and furthering a perpetual war on terror. The counterproductive consequence of this repeated folly was neatly captured by none other than Donald Rumsfeld when he rather cynically declared with characteristic smugness: 'for each terrorist we kill, we create another two in their wake'. So thusly, the horrific parade of carnage will continue in what Gore Vidal labeled 'the endless war for endless peace' aided and advanced by an administration who intends to significantly invest in the war machine while drastically cutting our diplomatic efforts around the world. Indeed, may God bless America before it is too late for redemption.