Senator John McCain - " heroism " in the service of the decidedly UN-HEROIC

" McCain was a right-wing Republican, but the loudest tributes to his political record are coming from Democrats... "

              Given his family's military history and his class roots , his military and political career in the " heroic " defense of the socially rooted evil of American capitalism and imperialism were pre-determined.

                    What is so tragic about a decaying social order is that so much real courage, character, " honor " , " love of country " is placed in the service of hideous EVIL.

                You would have to be illiterate in American History to see any " heroism " on our side there. What was so " heroic " about pilots like John McCain dropping napalm on Vietnamese civilians and devastating the country - and fellow Americans - with agent orange ? The famous British philosopher Bertrand Russell documented these war crimes for his " International War Crimes Tribunal ( read " Bertrand Russell's America " for the horrible details ) .

                 How could " war criminal " McCain as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam not get less than loving treatment ?

                 Whatever the demented Christian Right says about the righteousness of the Vietnam War - a view scandalously shared by the American Catholic Church hierarchy ( Cardinal Spellman always seeing a nuclear holocaust as preferential to the triumph of " godless communism " ) no good God was on their side in THE END - the humiliating defeat of U.S imperialism and the fall of Saigon in 1975 - soon after the fall of the arch-war criminal Richard Nixon.

              John McCain did seem to be a voice of conscience in the matter of torturing prisoners of war . So if Hell -like Heaven- has many mansions, his rooms will be moderately air-conditioned.