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What's Become of Americans?
A fish rots from the head. Clearly, deception in the Oval Office is corrupting the U.S. military. One reader reported that on March 19 his local PBS station aired a program that discussed the deaths of two young American soldiers in friendly fire incidents similar to Pat Tillman's death. In each case, he reports, "elements within the military falsified reports and attempted to shift blame to either enemy combatants or allied (Polish) forces."
The neocons have yet to tell us the real reason for their assault on Iraq, which has so far produced 20,000 dead, maimed, and wounded U.S. soldiers, between 30,000 and 180,000 (and rising) Iraqi civilians, and demoralized U.S. Marines to the point that they commit atrocities on women and children.
Would real Americans accept these blows for the sake of an undeclared agenda? Perhaps it is true that Americans don't live here any longer.
What's Become of Americans?
Paul Craig Roberts, Antiwar.com, March 22, 2006
The author of this article is a man who once as a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury was part of the highest levels of the US Executive. It is probably hard to disown organizational loyalties so completely; yet disown them he did which is testament to his sense of duty as a citizen.
Though my own path in life has been quite different and I have only lived in the US for 18 years his sense of the spirit of America changing so dramatically as to merit a comparison to a different people altogether reflects what I sense. The transformation is indeed frightening; yet if there is hope it lies in every one of us finding the strength to do the right thing as a citizen and set example for others.