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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Mark Twain, Anti-imperialist

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  1. Any politically literate American will be informed of very many war crimes perpetrated by the Pentagon War Crimes Machine. Have you had a whiff of " OUR democracy " lately ? How is the American plutocracy on a higher moral level than the Russian oligarchy ? How much respect for SOVEREIGN countries does the American government show ? Say since the 1848 war with Mexico which Lincoln protested ? Way back in 1898 American author Mark Twain was protesting American imperialism and war crimes . Dalton Trumbo's " Johnny Got His Gun " protested the lunacy of the First World War - the war to make the world safe for democracy . All that Wilsonian blather about FREEDOM . Recall John Hersey's " Hiroshima ? And Ron Kovic's anti-Vietnam War novel " Born on the Fourth of July " . We just had to stop communism spreading in Asia. Many war crimes-like the bombing of a hospital were reported in Afghanistan . Recall the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandals in Iraq ?

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