Because They (The Propagandists) Cannot Stop

There are those who mindlessly repeat the words “Israel has a right to defend itself” as hospitals and aid workers and little children are blown to bits. Because they cannot stop.

There are those who say we must send weapons to help, and food. Because they cannot do otherwise.

With every image of starving or amputated children, they say the IDF is trying to limit civilian casualties. It is beyond their assigned roles to resolve contradictions. They say what they have been fashioned to say.

And people whose job it is continue to rant on about the Uyghur? They continue to call it a genocide, with absolute certainty, without providing evidence. Because saying so is both lucrative and prestigious. Because being in such a poistion is what they’ve worked so hard for all their lives.

Anne Applebaum and Michael McFaul keep saying Ukraine is winning, must win, can’t lose. That if only we can find old men and women and people with special needs who can hold the guns we profit from making, all will be well. Because their paychecks and their identities are tied to a machine that insists that war is the answer for everything, All that they are is tied up in the belief that U.S. dominance over all the world is the only path to peace. We’re helping Ukraine, just as we helped Iraq, and Libya, and Syria, and Afghanistan, and Kosovo, and Israel, and Palestine. All this war will lead to peace and democracy. Right after we’ve dealt with China, and Iran, and North Korea, and…