Unpunished American war criminal at Abu Ghraib

Today is Memorial Day, only one of several American holidays for celebrating our massive military and the enlisted personnel who “just follow orders” every time they bomb someone’s home, school, or hospital — and whom we excuse from having any moral agency. Even liberals thank some of these baby killers and torturers “for your service.” The sad fact is, there are just too many sadistic war criminals like now- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth who enlist so they can murder and torture people without consequence. After 250 years of American history, everybody knows the dark purpose of the American military — and it’s sure as hell not “protecting ourselves.”

So today, as Americans remember Memorial Day and some of us shout USA! USA! USA!, let us remember that what this day really celebrates is not the bravery of these unquestioning, compliant servants of death, destruction and violence, but of America’s perpetual state of war on the rest of the world and its pursuit of dominance and hegemony.

Unquestioned American military support for
Israel makes possible the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza

America’s endless military adventures — almost always to put down uprisings against USA-friendly dictators, imperialism and colonialism, or to seize territory and resources from other nations — are only rarely launched for anything good. Today, as “we” celebrate “our” military’s “accomplishments” we ought to face the many tons of evil along with the precious few grams of good we’d rather focus on. The following is only a partial list of America’s many wars, most of them with the US playing the bully:

The American Revolution – Britain (1775-1783); Indian Wars – stealing indigenous land (1775-1890); Shay’s Rebellion – Massachusetts rebels (1786-1787); The Whiskey Rebellion – USA (1794); Naval war with France (1798-1800); Fries’s Rebellion “The Hot Water War” – USA (1799); Barbary Wars – Libya, Algiers, and Morocco (1800-1815); Putting down slave rebellions (1800-1865); War of 1812 – Britain (1812-1815); Invasion and annexation of Mexico (1846-1848); “Bleeding Kansas” – Slavery wars (1855-1860); Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry – USA (1859); United States Civil War (1861-1865); U.S. Intervention in Hawaiian Revolution (1893); The Spanish-American War – plundering Spain’s colonies (1898); U.S. Intervention in Samoan Civil War (1898-1899); U.S.-Philippine War (1899-1902); Boxer Rebellion – China (1900); The Moro Wars – Philippine Musliims (1901-1913); U.S. Intervention in Panamanian Revolution (1903); The Banana Wars – all over Central America (1909-1933); U.S. Occupation of Vera Cruz – Mexico (1914); Pershing’s Raid Into Mexico (1916-1917); US involvement in World War I (1917-1918); Allied Intervention to undermine Russian Bolsheviks (1919-1921); US involvement in World War II (1941-1945); The Cold War (secret war with USSR and Communist China) (1945-1991); US undermining Palestine sovereignty (1948-present); The Korean War (1950-1953); America’s war in Vietnam (1956-1975); U.S. Intervention in Lebanon (1958); Invasion of the Dominican Republic (1965); The Mayaguez Rescue Operation – Cambodia (1975); Iranian Hostage Crisis and Rescue Attempt (1980); U.S. Libya Conflict (1981-1986); U.S. Intervention in Lebanon (1982-1984); U.S. Invasion of Grenada (1983); The Tanker War – “Operation Earnest Will” (1987-1988); U.S. Invasion of Panama (1989); Second Persian Gulf War “Operation Desert Storm” – Iraq (1991); “No-Fly Zone” War – Iraq (1991-2003); U.S. Intervention in Somalia (1992-1994); U.S. Occupation of Haiti (1994); US/NATO Intervention in Bosnia (1994-1995); U.S. Embassy bombings and strikes on Afghanistan and Sudan – Bin Laden War (1998); “Desert Fox” Campaign (part of U.S./Iraq Conflict)- Iraq (1998); Kosovo War – Yugoslavia/Serbia (1999); Afghanistan War – Operation Enduring Freedom (2001-2021); Third Persian Gulf War “Operation Iraqi Freedom” (2003-2011); Intervention in Haitian civil conflict (2004); Intervention in Somali civil conflict (2006-2009); U.S. Operations against Al-Qaida in Somalia (2006-present); Libyan War – deposing Gadhafi (2011); Deposing Joseph Kony and the LRA – Uganda (2011-2017); ISIS War – Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya (2014-present); Arming Ukraine against Russia (2014-present); U.S. Missile Strike on Syria (2017); Persian Gulf Crisis (2019-2020) (2019-present); Bombing Sudan in behalf of Israel (2025); Bombing Somalia in behalf of Israel (2025); Bombing Yemen in behalf of Israel (2025).

To be continued and enlarged upon, no doubt.