26 May 2007
What is the Military’s Job?
On Thursday, May 24, President Bush celebrated passage of his Iraqi war funding bill with no deadlines imposed by Congress on maintaining U.S. troop strength. Typically, he construed the original bill as an attempt by the Democrats to tell the military how to do its job.
In fact, the Congress was only trying to tell the military what its job was. That’s supposed to be the responsibility of the President, our “Commander in Chief.” Instead, he has hidden behind a parade of Theatre Commanders, whose real assignment has been to pacify a country filled with violent resisters to U.S. occupation.
How long will our military allow itself to be treated by the Administration as gladiators? Do they really accept it as their duty to conduct operations, and shed blood, in order to satisfy the thoughtless ego of the devotee of fundamental religion? Because he was elected President? How great the Constitutional system of the U.S.! It won’t last forever under the strain.
In 1962, “Seven Days in May” predicted the risk of a military coup in the U.S. from the right. However, the real threat to our Constitutional system may now be a humanist military reaction to abuse by the fundamentalist right.
On Thursday, May 24, President Bush celebrated passage of his Iraqi war funding bill with no deadlines imposed by Congress on maintaining U.S. troop strength. Typically, he construed the original bill as an attempt by the Democrats to tell the military how to do its job.
In fact, the Congress was only trying to tell the military what its job was. That’s supposed to be the responsibility of the President, our “Commander in Chief.” Instead, he has hidden behind a parade of Theatre Commanders, whose real assignment has been to pacify a country filled with violent resisters to U.S. occupation.
How long will our military allow itself to be treated by the Administration as gladiators? Do they really accept it as their duty to conduct operations, and shed blood, in order to satisfy the thoughtless ego of the devotee of fundamental religion? Because he was elected President? How great the Constitutional system of the U.S.! It won’t last forever under the strain.
In 1962, “Seven Days in May” predicted the risk of a military coup in the U.S. from the right. However, the real threat to our Constitutional system may now be a humanist military reaction to abuse by the fundamentalist right.
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