“We wage war under a banner of peace—call ravaging our enemies police actions, peacekeeping operations, international intervention—gaslighting ourselves into complicity,” writes Drewspeak
Photo: Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images Another fleet of American aircraft abandons another broken capital, and again, a familiar wound opens in me. It bleeds through time, staining my present with the past. I see my Vietnamese parents: my father watching his city burn on the horizon from an American warship. My mother huddling among packed bodies on a boat that will take her to an island, to a camp, to a plane, and finally to a country that’d dropped bombs on her since she could remember.
Like an abusive father, my adoptive country’s trauma metastasized into denial, into rage, into violence repeated once more in the Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Iraq, Haiti, Somalia, Afghanistan, and more battlefields than my heart alone can hold. We wage war under a banner of peace — call ravaging our enemies police actions, peacekeeping operations, international intervention — gaslighting ourselves into complicity.
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