Why, oh why, I found myself quietly screaming, does militarism and national “defense” always get a free pass or a quick shrug?
Something happened on Tuesday, as I began researching this column — I wound up having to give myself a COVID test.A good friend had just tested positive and, well, we had recently gotten together. I needed to see if I was OK. I note this not because there was bad news — I tested negative — but because . . . well, I’m not quite sure. I had never self-administered a COVID test before, or had any such test at all in several years. I felt fine. I didn’t feel sick.
competitors” — China, Russia, etc. — and, uh oh, we can’t let that happen, right? In my unprotected emotional state, the shallowness of such “warnings” was almost too much to bear. Global warming, the threat of nuclear war — that’s stuff for another story. This story is about national defense, which requires a seriously limited understanding of our enemies and competitors. This is about winning and losing — abstractly, of course. Don’t think about the corpses that are piling up.
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