THIS ESSAY IS CROSSPOSTED WITH COUNTERPUNCH
REV. WILLIAM ALBERTS—If NFL players – and coaches and owners – had taken a knee to protest the needless Afghanistan and Iraq wars, instead of promoting recruitment and militarism, and if far more people of faith had gotten up off their knees and joined other citizens in protest, those immoral wars could have been prevented, or ended sooner, and there would not be maimed victims and families suffering the permanent loss of their loved ones. Far more “disgraceful,” to the point of being obscene, is President Trump exploiting the unnecessary sacrifice of war victims for his own egocentric ends.
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Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” -- acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump -- a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report